Word: sheltons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crack crime reporter, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's husky Theodore C. Link, 43, knew plenty of crooks-and how to use them. For 22 years, off & on, he had tapped many of them for crime tips, notably the Midwest's ill-famed Shelton brothers. On their part, brothers Carl, Bernie and Earl Shelton, who had terrorized southern Illinois before "retiring" as gentlemen farmers on bootleg and slot-machine fortunes, had a soft spot for the Post-Dispatch. It had once found out about a frame-up plot against them in 1926, and they never forgot it. That...
...Link thought he had a good start. He had been given a set of transcriptions by Bernie Shelton before Shelton was murdered last July (TIME, Aug. 9). They purportedly recorded a long chat between Bernie and a man who had asked him for a $25,000 bribe for an Illinois state's attorney to quash an assault indictment against Shelton...
Come Up & See Me. Four nights after the killing, Reporter Link interviewed Peter Petrakos, an intimate of Bernie Shelton, in a Peoria hotel room. Also present were "Big Earl" Shelton and two of his henchmen. Earl was anxious to know who had killed Bernie and Carl (who had been murdered a year ago), and whether his number was up too. Link and the Post-Dispatch had a bigger interest in the case: they wanted to find out if Illinois gamblers had killed Bernie and if they had connections with Governor Green's machine...
Peter Petrakos had little to say. But eight days later, Ted Link's story on the recordings broke with a bang in the Post-Dispatch. On its heels came other stories about payoffs by the Sheltons and other gamblers to state officials. A hastily summoned grand jury heard the recordings, indicted State's Attorney Roy Hull and two other county officials for malfeasance, and charged Hull with soliciting a bribe from Bernie Shelton...
...Keeffe spends half of each year in Manhattan and the other six months in New Mexico's canyon country -an equally steep and angular land. She has painted both homes with appropriate simplicity. Her Manhattan oils (many of them done from a window of the midtown Hotel Shelton) were pavement-hard and needle-sharp...