Word: walush
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Dates: during 1945-1945
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...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...
Even then Joe could not quite believe what was happening to him. The judge, obviously disturbed during the trial, had called Vera Walush into his chambers, baldly charged her with lying on the stand. He told Joe: "I'm going to see that you get a new trial." But the State's Attorney's office did not agree. Joe got no new trial. Numbly, he kissed his wife and newborn son, became Convict 8356E, a lifer at Joliet...
Reporters sought out witnesses. Bessie Barren, who had been a friend of Vera Walush, talked: Vera had admitted the cops had forced her to identify Joe falsely. Zagata, the trucker, told of being called into the judge's chambers, of hearing the judge say he believed Joe was innocent...