Word: rathbun
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...means of winding up the mystery. You expressly charge that Brothers was being "framed" by the Chicago Tribune; when considered with your other state- ments concerning this investigation, the charge necessarily also applies to Patrick Roche, Chief Investigator of the State's Attorney, and Charles F. Rathbun and James E. McShane, Assistant State's Attorneys, all of whom have been directly responsible for the conduct of the case...
...requested by The Tribune Co. publisher of the Chicago Tribune, and by Mr. Roche, Mr. Rathbun and Mr. McShane to demand that you publish in the next issue of your magazine a retraction of this false and defamatory imputation...
...reprinting Reporter Brundidge's findings, the Tribune drew the hostility of its competitors, and last week openly charged them with obstructing the search for Lingle's murderer. The Daily News and the Herald & Examiner tried but failed to force the removal of Charles T. Rathbun, the lawyer whom the Tribune had had appointed as special assistant state's attorney for the Lingle case. Other newspapers, the Tribune claimed, were printing information which served as warnings to men sought by police...
...first move the Tribune offered $25,000 reward for capture of the killer. Next it caused its own lawyer, Charles F. Rathbun, to be appointed Special Assistant State's Attorney in charge of the Lingle case...