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...Constance Worthington, a lady recently admitted to haut bourgeois circles, decided in the interest of cultivated living, to purchase a fine piano. She then asked a knowledgeable friend to recommend a tuner...
...this is fiscal proof of a weather change in the $2.4 billion-a-year air-conditioning industry, whose major producers include Trane, York, Fedders, Worthington and Westinghouse as well as Carrier. No longer is it a business that seems important only in July and August. Syracuse-based Carrier, biggest company in the business, is flourishing year-round-and so are most of its competitors. Already in the cold first quarter of 1965, said Bynum, his company's new orders are up 22%, and profits, which were $11 million last year...
Late one August night in Miami, Mrs. Charles Worthington, 67, heard a call from her stepson Richard. She hurried to his room and was slugged to the floor by Richard's pal, Joel Gebhardt, 20. As Joel smothered her screams, Richard beat Mrs. Worthington to death with an iron bar. For three hours the youths sat around discussing how to split the Worthingtons' $40,000 estate. Then they crept into the bedroom of Richard's father, Charles Worthington, where Joel killed the sleeping contractor by firing a .22 rifle bullet into his brain. Next day the youths...
Spelled out in all its grim detail in Joel Gebhardt's confession to the Dade County (Miami) grand jury, the Worthington slaying seemed to promise that the two young men would soon be facing trial on two counts of first-degree murder. Not so: the grand jury has indicted only Richard Worthington-leaving "Witness" Gebhardt to go completely free as soon as his friend's trial is over...
Soon after the Worthingtons' bodies surfaced, Gebhardt and young Worthington were arrested as prime suspects, but the evidence was all circumstantial and neither man would confess anything. Then Gebhardt's lawyer, who under Florida law had no way of learning the strength, or weakness, of the case against his client, offered the deal that did the police's work for them. "It was half a loaf or nothing," insisted Prosecutor Richard Gerstein. "In addition, the one who initiated the murder was killing his own parents and would inherit their estate if not convicted of murder." Unless Worthington...