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...last week, Vera Stretz was on trial for her life, and the New York Press had made her case the juiciest sex & shooting sensation of the season...
...Vera Stretz had a bang-up trial. She was represented by stubby, truculent Lawyer Samuel Leibowitz, famed for his defense of the Scottsboro boys (TIME, April 10, 1933). She had an audience of some 300 murder fans, including slinky Actress Tallulah Bankhead. A corps of some of the best talent the U. S. Press could muster looked searchingly into Miss Stretz's Germanic countenance, was not in complete accord as to what...
...popular press resoundingly agreed on the purity of Vera Stretz's motive for plugging Dr. Gebhardt even before the defendant took the stand...
...Blue-eyed Vera," responded the equally blatant Journal, "emerged . . . as an enslaved girl who killed her paramour in revolt against his sadistic love practices...
Following this unique self-castigation from the front office, the News blithely continued to print all the Stretz case testimony it could lay hands on, masterminded over the weekend: VERA TO TELL ALL IN BID TO EVADE CHAIR...