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...crack crime reporter, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's husky Theodore C. Link, 43, knew plenty of crooks-and how to use them. For 22 years, off & on, he had tapped many of them for crime tips, notably the Midwest's ill-famed Shelton brothers. On their part, brothers Carl, Bernie and Earl Shelton, who had terrorized southern Illinois before "retiring" as gentlemen farmers on bootleg and slot-machine fortunes, had a soft spot for the Post-Dispatch. It had once found out about a frame-up plot against them in 1926, and they never forgot it. That...
...intimate of Bernie Shelton, in a Peoria hotel room. Also present were "Big Earl" Shelton and two of his henchmen. Earl was anxious to know who had killed Bernie and Carl (who had been murdered a year ago), and whether his number was up too. Link and the Post-Dispatch had a bigger interest in the case: they wanted to find out if Illinois gamblers had killed Bernie and if they had connections with Governor Green's machine...
Peter Petrakos had little to say. But eight days later, Ted Link's story on the recordings broke with a bang in the Post-Dispatch. On its heels came other stories about payoffs by the Sheltons and other gamblers to state officials. A hastily summoned grand jury heard the recordings, indicted State's Attorney Roy Hull and two other county officials for malfeasance, and charged Hull with soliciting a bribe from Bernie Shelton...
...grand jury brought in its report. It indicted Reporter Link, Big Earl Shelton and the other two witnesses to the Petrakos interview on charges of kidnaping, conspiracy and intimidation. They had seized Petrakos, the jury charged, "for the purpose of getting a confession." The grand jury also accused the Post-Dispatch of bad faith...
...wagon jeep. But the Republicans' handsome playboy, Governor Dwight Green, was facing real opposition from political amateur Adlai Stevenson (TIME, March 8).Backed by the nominally independent (but actually pro-Republican) Chicago Daily News, with the full support of other papers as far away as the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Candidate Stevenson was hitting hard at graft, shakedowns and kickbacks in the state administration. Cried the News: "The Green administration . . . nourishes a swarm of grafters, chiselers and racketeers who grow bolder every year." Even if Pete Green rode into a third term on the Republican tide, socialite Lawyer-Diplomat...