Word: shephard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...meeting will be held at 7:30 p.m. in the Shephard Room...
...plugged drains on Shephard and Boylston Streets and Massachusetts Avenue created puddies from 12 to 18 inches deep in some places. One such puddle on Massachusetts Avenue forced water to flow down into the Harvard Square subway station...
Third Plea. But somehow, despite Sullivan's confession, the New Jersey Court of Pardons twice turned down Cliff Shephard, presumably because his old accusers refused to change their stories. "I talked to three of the merchants," Shephard said. "They thought I was innocent. But they were afraid I'd sue for false arrest...
Months later, when Shephard was reduced to selling rugs made by the blind because nobody else would trust his con's record, he got a wire from the Burns people. A check-passer of his general description, Edward Sullivan, the "phantom forger," had been picked up, they said. Shephard made his way to Wisconsin, where Sullivan had been sentenced, came face to face with a man of his same general build and coloring, his same long face and heavy jaw-but by'no means a twin in looks. The real "phantom" looked at photostats of the checks which...
...Then, as Shephard struggled to hold down a porter's job in a bar & grill, a friendly New York Timesman named Joseph Haff helped him organize his third plea. Last week, 15 years after the first arrest, New Jersey's Governor Alfred E. Driscoll signed a full pardon, and another would probably be available soon for Betty Lester, since enfeebled by a stroke. Sixty-four-year-old Cliff Shephard, tearfully pleased with the final triumph of justice, laid aside his broom and towel, thanked the State for excusing the crimes he had never committed...