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...Stuffy" Walters, an oldtime reporter himself, passed the tip along to the Daily News's top expose expert, Capital Correspondent George Thiem (pronounced theme), told him to start digging. As Thiem, 59, began to turn up pay dirt, most other Chicago papers ignored his story. But by last week Thiem's digging had unearthed the biggest state scandal in years, spread it across Page One in Illinois papers from Waukegan to Cairo. Fearful that the scandal could rock Republican chances at the polls in November, Governor William Stratton last week ordered Auditor Hodge to 1) withdraw...
...uproar of indictments, charges and countercharges, Gugel temporarily withdrew from the force and Thiem was fired (he is now a special deputy sheriff in Las Vegas, Nev.). Although Gugel got back his job as police chief after he was acquitted on the nonfeasance charge, he still faced a federal indictment for his attack on Photographer Bailey. Last week in a U.S. District Court in Covington, Ky., a federal jury found that Policeman Gugel had exceeded his powers, convicted him of violating Photographer Bailey's civil rights and fined him $1,000 plus court costs. Said District judge MacSwinford: "Bailey...
...Louisville Courier-Journal got a solid telephone tip about Newport, and sent Photographer George Bailey hustling to the scene. The tip: Glenn Schmidt's Playtorium, a plush dining-drinking-gambling-bowling club, was about to be raided. The leader of the raid was Newport's Detective Jack Thiem, who had hired 16 private detectives in Louisville, 106 miles from Newport, to help...
...Courier-Journal reported what had happened in Page One stories, and a grand jury indicted Police Chief Gugel for interfering with Photographer Bailey's civil rights. Another grand jury indicted Gugel for "nonfeasance of duty," i.e., failing to suppress gambling and prostitution. The same jury also indicted Detective Thiem, the raider, on charges of breaking the law himself by having an interest in a brothel, and said he staged the raid on the Playtorium to retaliate for earlier raids on houses he was protecting...
While venality in the press is rare enough to be big news whenever it happens, the Thiem-Harris exposé made no headlines in newspapers in other states for two weeks. The main reason was that most of the papers did not know about it; no news service had carried the story. Explained Executive Editor Alan Gould of the Associated Press: "In the beginning, we didn't think it was worth the wire space." Last week, after the A.P. got some calls from clients, it decided the scandal was news, after all, and put out the two-week...