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...girl whom Paul Dwyer accused old Dr. Littlefield of slurring was blonde, pert Barbara Carroll, 17-year-old daughter of a South Paris deputy sheriff. Since Dwyer originally said he consulted the doctor about a venereal disease, this mention of Barbara Carroll was a slur indeed. Dwyer omitted her name from subsequent confessions, gave the murder motive as robbery. To friendly South Parisians, Barbara and her father, a respectable World War veteran and deacon, were characters almost as touching as Mrs. Jessie Dwyer, a simple nurse who had long struggled to keep her fatherless boy out of debt. But last...
Last week, Barbara Carroll went to the South Paris courthouse to see her father, on trial for the murder of Dr. Littlefield...
...Convict Dwyer, now 19, more pasty-faced than ever after eight months in a cell. On the basis of his sixth confession, a 17-page horror story told with flashes of incongruous drugstore wit, Special Assistant Attorney General Ralph M. Ingalls had reopened a closed case. The story: Barbara had told Dwyer of relations with her father to stop him from reproaching himself about her lost virginity; Dwyer taxed Carroll with it and the father threatened, bullied, finally accused him of making Barbara pregnant; when Dr. Littlefield, called in to examine the girl, learned of the incest, Carroll strangled...
...Franklyn Laws Mutton's "little girl," Barbara, Woolworth heiress...
...Deeds Goes to Town in 1936. Last year, after a prolonged dispute in which he charged Columbia with breach of contract, their differences were composed on a basis that pays Capra roughly $350,000 a year. He has personally created or vastly improved half-a-dozen stars, including Barbara Stanwyck, Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, and Jean Arthur. More important than all these is the simple fact that in his 17 years in the cinema industry, Frank Capra has an almost unparalleled record of having turned out only one real flop. On the strength of this record he is regarded...