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Acquitted, Dorothea Wendt Livermore, 38, divorced wife of Wall Street Plunger Jesse Livermore Sr.; of assault charges after shooting her 16-year-old son Jesse Jr. while he was staging a drinking bout in her California home (TIME, Dec. 9); in Santa Barbara, Calif. In absolving his mother, Jesse Jr. testified that the gun went off when he forced it into her hands as the climax of a maudlin "mock death scene...
...untimely death (she was not 40) of Irene Gömbös-Jewish daughter of a Jewish champagne manufacturer. Died. Louis M. Kotecki, 51, Milwaukee City Comptroller, indicted four months ago for malfeasance; by his own hand (pistol), after shooting and critically wounding Chief Deputy Comptroller William Wendt, whose testimony before the grand jury, Kotecki believed, had made it appear that the city had been mulcted of some $500,000 through his careless checking of bond transactions; in Milwaukee. Died. Dr. Raymond Philip Dougherty, 55, professor of Assyriology and Babylonian Literature at Yale, curator of Sterling Memorial Museum...
Divorced. Jesse Lauriston Livermore, famed Wall Street speculator; by Dorothea Fox Wendt Livermore, 37, onetime beautician, his second wife; at Reno, Nev. Few minutes later Mrs. Livermore married James Walter Longcope, onetime Prohibition agent, famed for spending $7,000 in Texas Guinan's night club in 1927 to get evidence...
Seeking Divorce. Dorothy Fox Wendt Livermore; from Jesse Lauriston Livermore, famed stock speculator; in Reno. Grounds: cruelty...
Ostensibly the proceedings were a trial for High Treason. Three young German army officers (Lieutenants Richard Scheringer, Hans Ludin, Friedrich Wendt) were charged with inciting their men to join a Fascist putsch should it be proclaimed. Without quite admitting their guilt the young officers waxed hotly truculent. "I would obey an order to shoot down Communists," shouted Lieutenant Scheringer, "but I would disobey a command to fire on men of my own persuasion...