Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 March 1937 — Page 11
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By HARRY ELMER BARNES
‘EW YORK, March 13.—Actual and | averted recent electrocutions at Sing | Sing must bring to the minds of civilized persons once more the whole issue of capital punishment. This is a sort of last final hangover in our civilization of such brutalities as human sacrifice | among savages. We justify the continuance of this | antique form of barbarism on the ground it is neces- | sary in order to keep down the | murder rate. The invariable and | inevitable deterrent effect of capi- | tal punishment is ever urged by | its sponsors. But there seems to be a resolute | refusal to face the facts. There is | no evidence that the fear of death in the electric chair or on the gallows exercises any appreciable control over the murder rate. : One of the best statistical studies of capital punishment ever made was carried out by Warden Lewis E. Lawes in his book, “Man’s Judgment of Death.” In this, among other things, he compared the homicide rate | in five states which employed capital punishment with the rate in five comparable states that had abolished it, These states were chosen as those presenting cultural similarities, so that disturbing factors would be as absent as possible. The capital punishment states were New Hampshire, Connecticut, Ohio, Missouri and | Indiana. The abolition states were Maine, Rhode | Island, Michigan, Kansas and Minnesota. What did | Mr. Lawes discover? | He fcund that over a period of eight years the | homicide rate in the capital punishment states aver- | aged 56.5 per million of the population. In the states which had abolished capital punishment the homicide | rate averaged 37.9. 2
Authority Quoted
HE leading authority on capital punishment in the English-speaking world is Dr. E. R. Calvert. He says: “In no single instance is there evidence of a permanent increase in homicide crime as a result of abolition (of the death penalty); in many there | has been a decided increase.’ | What about the contrary contention that England enjovs a low homicide rate because she hangs all | those convicted of murder? It turns out that Eng- | land has a far poorer record in this respect than the | United States Warden Lawes compared the capital punishment | situation in England and in 12 representative Ameri- | can states having about the population of England. | He found that in the United States we executed T1 | per cent of those condemned to death. England executed only 53 per cent.
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Joos of capital punishment do not, indeed, | dare follow their logic to tts inevitable conclusion. | Deterrence requires horror and publicity. How can a man be deterred by a relatively painless private | exceution of which he may never even have read? If one actuaily wanted to make the death penalty | in any way deterrent it would be desirable to make | of it a public spectacle and carry it out under the | most brutal and degrading circumstances, It is easy to answer the arguments of those who | contend that life imprisonment is a purely fanciful | penalty, never really carried out. Warden Lawes | carefully reviewed the situation on this point and showed that, in the United States, prisoners are much mere likely to escape the execution of the death pen- | altv than they are to avoid the literal application of | life imprisonment.
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Mrs.Roosevelt's Day
By ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
LVA. Okla, Friday—While I was speaking this | morning my eldest son called me all the way | from Washington. The story which has seemed to { be of greatest interest to everyone out here had | reached Washington and they were worried. It is | too bad that it is not ahsolutely accurate, for, according to newspaper reports, it caused one youngster | great disappoitment. | He was the son of my hostess at one of my stops | and he had read that I carried a gun with me. | Someone had evidently forgotten to mention what I | actually said, namely, that when I motored and was driving my own car by myself, the Secret Service hed | asked me to carry a pistol. I did it and learned | how to use it. I do not mean by this that I am an expert shot, I only wish I were. If inheritance has anything to do with it I ought to be, for my father could hold his own even in the West in those early days when my uncle, Theodore Roosevelt, had a ranch in the Dakotas. These things do not, however, go by inheritance. My opportunities for shooting have been few and far between, but if the necéssity arose, I do know how to use a pistol. When we got out at Perry, Okla, yesterday, there was quite a crowd to greet us. In practically every town we came through on the drive to Alva people came out to wave their welcome. This always surprises me, for to this day it is hard | for me to remember the wife of the President rates any particular attention. I know it means a kindly | feeling toward the President and I am extremely | grateful for the welcome which has been accorded me everywhere. In this little hotel here I have a feeling that I am | the guest of the manager and his wife, both very | voung people. They have done everything possible to make us comfortable. Though the schedule is heavy | today—three speeches, a lunch and dedication cere- | monies for a new building—I realize that everything
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“THIS BUSINESS OF RELIEF Industry's Failure to Cut Rolls Blamed on Lack of Skill Among Idle
(Last of a Series; Editorial, Page 12) By ROBERT S. BROWN
Times Special Writer JASHINGTON, March 13.—Creation of a new Department of Public Welfare, as asked by the President, would be a first step toward the unification of the governmental agencies that provide public assist
ance. A Department of Public Works, to be effective, must gather in all the present varieties of work relief. A Department of Public Welfare, to be just as useful, must be built around the three present re= lief features of the Social Security Act, and probably a tourth cover= ing direct relief of the unem-= ployed. It must be given power to negotiate with appropriate agencies of the states, to set standards of administration, and to make grants-in-aid. As an added safeguard in the Department of Public Works, it it is to include Federal construction such as postoffice and customs buildings, a separate division should be maintained for this purpose—to fence off from political logrolling other projects instituted solely for unemployment relief.
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HESE new departments, headed by secretaries conversant with the many problems involved and fortified by the in= formation which would come from an impartial survey of the entire
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lief, could presently be in a posi=
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assistance program by facts, not guesses. Definite appropriations for a fiscal year, not a month or two months, could be made to each de= partment. Such commitments, in turn, would permit states and lo= cal communities to cut their financial cloth to match. Double bookkeeping on the Federal budget would be eliminated. In preceding articles an effort has been made to point out the shortcomings of present relief methods, but not with any idea of suggesting reduced benefits to those who are qualified to receive them. The cost of WPA has reduced the outlays on other types of as= sistance. A job created at public expense thus works a hardship both on the person who actually is unemployable and on the one who is able to work but can't get the job because of quota or other restrictions. If a person cannot be trained in a reasonable time to hold such a job, then he should be reclassified as a casual worker. If he can't stick there, he must find his own level on direct relief.
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HETHER the individual is rising or falling, the Government has a responsibility. He should be protected by standards suited to each stage of dependency. To continue him, regardless of his rating, as a competitor for each public job—as WPA is doing—is unsound. WPA has been in operation for nearly a year and a half. Its rolls are down to two million as against a peak of about three. It could climb back up immediately if arbitrary quota restrictions were removed. Industry and business have not cut into the ranks, despite the recovery. Private ems ployers explain that the “relief
How Uncle Sam is fighting the fire which since 1884 has caused
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lagers who, like this lad have
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The Government now hopes for victory, where many others have failed, by cutting the fire's fuel supply. is the digging by WPA workmen, top photo, of tunnels and cuts through coal veins flanking the burning area.
a creck bed for another incision.
with clay and other noninflammable material, then sealed to form fire walls around the six-square-mile area already affected.
ers,” in general, are not qualified for private jobs. It would appear then that WPA is outmoded. It must be fitted into a new and bigger program which includes long-range public works, expanded social insurance, perfection of a nation-wide system of employment exchanges, es= tablishment of vocational and apprentice training and an over-all co-ordination of all Federal, State and local relief-giving agencies. There will be a great clamor from “pressure groups” when the time for adjustment arrives. Govs=
HEARD IN CONGRESS
Rep. Gray (D. Pa.)=I have heard in this house for three years that we al' came in on Mr. Roosevelt's coattails. Possibly we did in a way, but the election did not mean that every
man who was elected came here te | say “ves” if the President said to |
( blow the dome off the Capitol.
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Rep. Murdock (D. Ariz)—When certain industrialists cry for liberty, they probably mean the liberty of a fox in a chicken roost.
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Senator Bailey (D. N. C): The city that cannot build its own jail ought not to be a city. The city that cannot pave its own streets has not any business being a city. ‘ We have reached the point where the subdivisions are lying down on the United States all over America, and I am trying to stop it. ”
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Rep. Ferguson (D. Okla), discuss= ing the “dust powl”—It has been estimated than the dust, when it covers the range, cuts the life of a cow from 15 to 7 years because it wears out their teeth.
ernors, mayors, township trustees and other politicos will fight any move to take away a paternal agency which now is doing many of the services they should be financing. But to the individual in need, who wants to work and can, a new program under which he will draw full-time wages on a worth= while job, wholly divorced from relief, will be a welcome change.
O believe that industry will ever again employ all the people capable of working is to flout the most optimistic opinions of experts on the subject. A large labor reserve has distinguished
the American economic system since the rise of mass production. The size of the task of supports ing this reserve depends upon two factors — the Government's ability to keep the labor reserve efficient, trained and ready to work, and industry's willingness to draw from it. If either side falls down on the job, the answer is as obvious as the present number of unemsployed. For the Government, there is only one economy to follow. It is that underlying the entire New Deal philosophy of work relief, and so simply expressed hy WPA Administrator Hopkins when he says: “The Government recognizes the problem, puts it on a scientific basis and asks business to contribute—not hit or miss, but on the tax basis of ability to nay. The Government gives the work to this surplus labor, maintaining its skill and self-respect. This is in= dustry’s insurance of reserve labor when needed. The more lahor in« dustry absorbs within itself, the
less its taxes will be.”
INTIMIDATION TESTIFIED TO IN MISSOURI VOTE FRAUD TRIAL
(Last of a Series) By NEA SERVICE
"Get up! Get your books out!
Check them off!”
But until the flames burn out in the restricted area, New Straitsville itself must be harassed by such freaks as the one above— a gaping hole which first pours out hot water and steam, then shoots smoke and flames 20 feet into the air.
First step in this $360,000 plan
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Trail of the fire-monster is recorded in this map of New Straitsville and vicinity. Shaded portion indicates where flames have sapped lower strata, causing building and highway foundations to crumble. Great surface crevices, belching smoke and fire, have appeared, and grass and trees have shriveled. Projects A, B and C indicate the Government's points of attack with cuts and tunnels to bar the fire's path to the great Hocking Valley coal fields, which lie dangerously close at hand.
German Press Discloses Lack of Humor—Clapper
By RAYMOND CLAPPER Times Special Writer ASHINGTON, March 13.— ment” to the German Foreign These two incidents tell their | Office concerning the outburst in own story. the German press.
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So to date the score stands: Two
Our Town
By ANTON SCHERRER
OU probably noticed, as did all the newse papers around here, that we had an earthquake the other night—the second in a week— but it’s dollars to doughnuts that you didn't do anything about it. Well, I did. Plenty, as a matter of fact, because as soon as I could get the telephone girl, which was sometime the next morning, I got her to connect me with the best earthquake man in Indian
apolis, I can’t mention his name, because there are several around here who consider themselves the best. Anyway, I consulted a good earthquake man, and he assured me there is nothing to worry about. Fact is, he said we were sitting pretty. To be sure, he admitted that we were sitting on three distinct geological members (his lingo), two of them belonging to the Devonian formation and one to the Carboniferous, but even so, it's nothing to be scared of, Neither shows itself conspicuously on the surface, he said.
As a matter of fact, you have to dig anywhere from 50 to 150 feet through a bed of transported mate=rial (his lingo) to get to either. Transported material, I gathered, was a geological euphemism for anything from alluvium and Irvington clay to discarded tomato cans,
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Forms Surface of Town
E that as it may, transported material forms the surface of our town and molds its general cone figuration. My informant pointed out, however, that the rock foundation, in spite of the drift, sometimes gets pretty close to the tace of Indianapolis. For example, the line of strike (his lingo), dividing the geological menibers, transverses the city on a line from south 30 degrees northwest. This line, as it divides the Carboniferous limes stone from the Genesee shale, or black slate (Devone ian, to you), passes through the city about midway between the State House and the Insane Hospital, and if there's any room for a seismograph in this town, that's probably the right place,
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OT that it will do any good, but it's a nice thing to know, anyhow. It won't do any good, bes cause from all that I can learn a seismograph can't register the puny shocks we felt this week. Seems they're not geared right to catch small shocks at close range. They'll pick up one in China, though. All of which goes to show, I hope, that the geoe logical formations around here have quieted down. Suf« ficiently, anyhow, to make us reasonably safe from earthquakes until, maybe, after the next ice age, if by any chance that should come before the insects get us, Come to think of it, it's not the earthquakes that are going to be our finish. It's the insects,
A Woman's View
By MRS. WALTER FERGUSON
ERTAIN Army and Navy gentlemen are on my list of permanent correspondents. Their letters are often truculent in tone, and nobody can really blame them, least of all myself. Now comes a new
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department, I should not be allowed to express my
opinions so freely. Which of course moves me to discuss them at once,
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tary fans. The first fellow who sends an intelligent reply will get his picture in our nice new armory, Here goes. First: If a tremendous fighting force is necessary to keep a nation out of war, how do you account for the fact that as soon as Europe began to amass such forces we instantly jumped to the conclusion that another great war was imminent? Second: Since we've been told repeatedly that the slightest spark will be enough to set off the European
| conflagration, why is it that the Spanish stew, in | which so many countries have had men fighting, has
not done so? Third: What country are we getting ready to fight? Now if the Army and Navy pals will give me valid replies to these queries, I'd be ever so much readier to believe they know what they are talking about when they discuss preparedness. : The attitude of the militarists, however, remains blissfully inconsistent. We must be armed not just to the teeth but to the topknot, they say, but nobody names the foe we shall have to meet. They insist that only a powerful fighting force can protect us, yet in the next breath they scare us jittery by explaining that Europe is arming furiously; therefore it follows that Europe is going to war. The two statements simply do not make sense, at least to the limited feminine intelligence untrained in the arts of battle, If we can depend on the signs, Europe isn't going to war—no matter how much we pound on the drums, When the Spanish trouble was skirted, it proved that the leaders over there aren't so hot to begin another war spree. And the main thing we're arming against over here is fear, Loudly boasting our courage, we act like a rare lot of cowards and tremb'e before what? The
which can be done to make it easy will be done.
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pale shadow of a ghost conjured up by people who are in the war business and who themselves are the victims of such mental regimentation as is unknown among any other group in the United States. The Army or Navy man may think for ' .aself, but does he dare say what he thinks? ~
Your Health By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor, American Medical Assn. Journal
RYSIPELAS has had a long history, and ine numerable remedies have been recommended for treating it. Frequent applications of hot and cold packs will help to relieve pains by reducing the swelling. It is customary to protect the eyes, if the condition affects the face, by dropping mild antiseptic solue tions into the eyes and applying antiseptic ointments to the eyelids. These can be recommnded by any physician. Various attempts have been made to check the ad= vance of this disease by painting the skin with jodine, with silver nitrate, and with other antiseptic solutions, but there is no good evidence that ese accomplish much. Sometimes, in fact, they conceal the spread of erysipelas and thus interfere with efforts to control it. Most of these antiseptic substances, too, will stain bed linens and clothing. A new method of treatment is the application of utraviolet rays. This, in every instance, should be supervised by a doctor because rays strong enough to have any effect on an infection may be injurious. In very severe cases, blood transfusions are given, with the idea that new blood will provide anti substances capable of attacking the germs which cause the disease. A special antistreptococcus serum is available for use in erysipelas and, in some instances, this antie toxin has seemed to have marvelous effects. Because erysipelas, like other infectious diseases, will break down the blood and weaken patients generally, victims of this disease are given plenty of fluids and good, nourishing food. They may be forced to drink at least 10, and as many as 16, glasses of water daily. The food should be of the type that is easily digested without containing too much material to be eliminated. It is not safe to give strong cathartics to persons with erysipelas because irritation of the bowels in an infection of this type may itself cause serious
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Mrs. Chaney then testified she | First, Mayor La Guardia of New saw Luteran place ballots in the | york, in a speech, refers to Hitler ox. | as a “brown-shirted fanatic menac-Q-—What did you say? ling the peace of Europe.” We have A—I said, Luteran, you can't do|free speech in this country. The that, | Federal Government cannot disci-Q-—What did he say? | pline state and municipal officials A-—He said, “Well, I did it, didn’t | for their remarks, even those who 1 | make uncomplimentary reference to Q-—-What was his attitude? | the heads of friendly governments. A—He was in good humor. He gecretary of State Hull, however, exsmiled and said, “I've got to have | pressed his regret to the German 150 vores, | Embassy here. He did all that he The policeman, Roach, was con- | .ouid do to make amends. victed on the premises that he | “gecond, the German press burst should have enforced the law when |i, a tirade, not contenting itself he saw it violated. | with expressing disapproval of La But," according to the Govern- |g ardia’s remarks, but going beyond ment, “he deserted while the elec | ..o epithets and characterization of tion was stolen right before him, the women who composed the and he did not interfere When |r uae audience which officials Luteran browbeat those women into here say, are not printable in literal participating in this crime.” translation. On top of that, the #4 ou =» German Government protested to
N eh trial the Government in- he Bate Depaximeni. apology from roduced evidence that approxi- s mately 90 unswerving Twelfth Ward the Srermat Foreign Ose 10h thass Republieatis had been transformed ee not likely to the oe ay Joyal as be one since the worst offender is “I found evidence,” C. A. Appel, Der Angriff, described as the official MB 1 handwriting expert, said, | Organ of the Nazi Party and under “that the X's at the top of the Re- | the influence of Propoganda Minispublican column had been erased so | ter Goebbels. The German press, vigorously and carelessly that on unlike our own, is under Governsome ballots the paper was worn ment domination in that when the through. The “X” was then placed | Government does not wish it to in the Democratic column.” he said. | comment upon certain matters, it “On how many ballots were there |orders silence, or suggests the mode erasures?” Judge Otis inquired. of treatment desired. on nearly 90,” Appel said. Bo S a result, Kansas City still is under investigation with the grand HUS, our State Pepariment, jury searching many precincts and having no Sonkke in the first wards for suspected election law | instance, nevertheiess attempts to | make amends. The German For-
violations, In . | eign Office, having control, permits the trial of six more defend the attack to go on, and to extend
ants, now under way, the Govern- : ment has shown that ballots were to the women who listened to the
stolen in a church, the basement of Mayor. which had been used as a polling| Acting upon requests from women place. Further revelations, expected [in New York who are offended by daily, have thrown a scare into elec- | the German comments upon them tion crooks, not only in Kansas City, for listening to La Guardia, Secre= but in many other cities where such | tary Hull has asked our Ambassador practices have been going on. at Berlin to make “energetic com= y ay & y
protests, one by each government; one expression of regret from the United States. What began as a passing crack at Hitler by the Mayor of New York thus grows into an international affair contributing its scars to permanent hates on both sides of the Atlantic. Things have come to a fine pass when a Mayor, up for re-election, can't make a passing play for votes without rocking two major capitals. What would have happened if Great Britain had gone into a fit of national indignation every time Big Bill Thompson, running for Mayor of Chicago, threatened to “bust old King George on the snoot?” Have the German editorial writers no sense of humor? ” ”
OR many years, when voters of Irish descent were a relatively larger bloc than now, American politicians indulged in a certain technique known as “twisting the British lion's tail.” French politicians, for several years after the war, frequently sought votes by denouncing “Uncle Shylock” in connection with the war debts. Japanese politicians, whenever they want to shove up army and navy appropriations, begin talking about the “American menace.” It is an old game practiced in every country, Well-balanced people ordinarily take no serious offense at these attacks from foreign politicians. Occasionally Great Britain has barred an American magazine for being too factual about the recent King's romance with Mrs. Simpson. Japan barred an American magazine because its cover depicted the Emperor in a comic role. Customarily, even when such incidents happen, nobody really gets mad below the ears. There must be something curiously out of joint in the mood of a nation which goes wild when a foreign politician makes an ratorical pass at it,
> ANSAS CITY, Mo, March 13.— || “Boss” Pendergast, ill and aging, was absent from Kansas City during most of the fall election campaigns of 1936. Had his strong hand been more tightly on affairs, many political Missourians aver that “this would never have happened.” Pendergast has not been directly involved, to date, in any of the disclosures of election irregularities which led to Federal inquiry and prosecution. Evidence of stealing stood out on the face of the returns. Of a population of 416,000, there were 270,000 registered voters. Too many. Such a registration would call for a pop=ulation of about 600,000. A precinct report showing not a single vote for a reasonably strong congressional candidate certainly called for suspicion. As the investigation and trials progressed, the crudest sort of election jugglery and intimidation were shown. For example, witnesses testified that early election day Edson WM. walker, Democratic election judge, bullied women election officials with the threat of “taking them for a ride.” Witnesses said John H. Drummond, Democratic precinct captain, openly supported Walker in ignoring the ballots, making a false and arbitrary return.
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RS. AGNES AULGUR, a Republican election judge, testified Drummond attempted to frighten her into submitting to Walker's plan, but she stood fast against it. In the same trial Roland H. Groff, special agent for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, testified that an investigation of the precinct records revealed discrepancies not detected by the grand jury. ‘The final legitimate ballot registered on the poll book, Groff said, was 702. The total vote was increased to 747 with a fraudulent inscribing of additional names to ac-
Verdict of guilty was returned against John H. Drummond (left), Kansas City precinct captain, and Edson M. Walker, election judge. Each was sentenced to two years. Walker was given five months additional at a later trial.
guns for extra ballots, Groff testi- : fied. In the second trial, four Democratic, and two Republican election officials and one policeman were indicted. Five were convicted and sentenced as follows: Lorne E. Wells, Democratic judge, two years; Frank H. Adams, Republican judge, three years; Joe R. Wells Jr, Democratic clerk, one year and a day in a reformatory; John A. Luteran, Democratic precinct captain, three years; Leo B. Roach, patrolman, six months in Platte county jail. os ” ”
N this trial, Mrs. Delilah Chaney, . a Republican judge, testified that Luteran, the Democratic precinct captain, literally took over the poll« ing place. Q-—Where were you when Luteran issued orders that votes be cast for “friends” who had called him, saying he had to have 150 more votes? A—Sitting at my table crying. Q—Why were you crying? A—Because I had to steal neighbor's rights. Mrs. Chaney said Luteran blusteringly told judges and clerks:
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NTER another fast-paced story of crime, in the new mystery tale by Erle Stanley Gardner, THE D. A. CALLS IT MURDER (Morrow). The author deserts his popular Perry Mason, hero of many “Cases,” and introduces to his large public Douglas Selby, young, personable, and the newly elected dis= trict attorney of Madison City, Nev. Shortly after the election a shabby little minfester was found dead in his room at the Madison Hotel, In his well-worn brief case were letters concerning a prominent case of contested inheritance which was then in court; a preachy and highly moral scenario written especially for a Hollywood star of great magnitude; and an expensive new camera. With these threads of evidence in hand, Mr. Selby finds himself balked by a hostile press, which is out for political revenge, and by several witnesses who carry to extremes their reluctance to testify. Before all is lost, however, the key to the problem is discovered, and the office of District Attorney is safe in the hands of our hero for at least another murder —we hope.
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