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...scandal, New York's Governor Herbert Lehman ordered a special grand jury investigation. Out of a sensational welter of charges of racketeering, political corruption, jury-tampering & bribery came murder indictments against the Luckmans and Hull. On Feb. 20, 1936 all were convicted of second degree murder, sentenced to prison for 20 years to life. Because Hull's lawyer, Brooklyn's Joseph A. Solovei, had been absent from court during the first days of the trial, he decided to appeal for a new trial that he hoped might give him freedom. Last May it was granted. Last week...
Divorced. Prof. William Ellery Leonard, 61, poet, English Professor at the University of Wisconsin, famed for the "phobic prison" which keeps him within a few blocks of the University; by Grace Golden Leonard, 29; in Madison. Wis. Soon after they were married in June 1935, Prof. Leonard announced that his wife had taken him by the hand and led him out of the six-block area in which he had been held by agoraphobia. The cure was only temporary. A year ago Mrs. Leonard obtained a divorce, later had the decree set aside. The grounds were the same...
...showman, daring, quick-witted, with expressive eyes, a mobile face, a wide-ranged resonant voice, the gift of oratory and an intuitive awareness of jury reactions, Lawyer Liebowitz' court successes came so unbelievably as to make him appear hypnotic. The hardest case he ever had, the Max Becker prison riot murder in 1930, seemed so clear-cut against his client that when the jury brought in its verdict of not guilty, Liebowitz fainted...
Fame flamed from his footsteps. In 1925, eight years after he had freed his first pickpocket, Al Capone hired Liebowitz in connection with three sociable murders in Brooklyn's Adonis Club. It was on Liebowitz' advice that Capone went to prison for income tax evasions...
...crown the Liebowitz career with a judgeship. As for the clients his talents have freed, not all have lived to praise him. Liebowitz sent "Mad Dog" Coll back into the streets. Brother gangsters wiped him out within a week. Convict Max Becker, missing the electric chair for the prison guard's murder, went back to face prison guards who did not forget. The electric chair burns men. Solitary confinement burns minds. Max Becker has for some years been in the Dannemora madhouse...