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Chicago had arctic weather on Dec. 9, 1932; when big, red-faced Traffic Police man William D. Lundy went off duty in mid-afternoon it was 11° below zero in the drab Southwest Side. Shivering, he headed for Vera Walush's delicatessen, a cheap speakeasy, and stamped through into the dark kitchen in the rear...
Blond, blowzy Vera Walush poured out two shots of raw moonshine, served them...
...Brightly Lighted Room. After that Joe Majczeks life became a nightmare. The cops took him off to jail, put him in a small, brightly lighted room. After a while a policeman brought in Vera Walush. She looked at Joe, said, "I know that...
...sake," he implored, "what's happening to me?" His guards stared at him sheepishly. An hour later he was led back into the bright lights, listened to Vera Walush saying, brokenly, "Yes. Yes, that's the man." Vera did not look...
When he was indicted for murder, his frantic family hired a lawyer whose name, they had seen in newspaper crime stories, a stocky, drunken gangland attorney named William W. O'Brien. The state's whole case rested on Vera Walush's testimony but O'Brien, unsteady with drink, did not question it. Joe pleaded for a chance to go on the stand himself. O'Brien waved him off. The jury's verdict: guilty -99 years in the penitentiary...