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During his closing argument, Defense Attorney Sam Amirante tried to create sympathy for his client by citing Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and quoting Jekyll's anguished lament: "If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also." But the most emotional moments came during the state's summation, when, one by one, Prosecutor Terry Sullivan placed photographs of the 22 identified victims on a wooden easel and described each one in detail. The next day, Chief Prosecutor William Kunkle snatched up the photos...
...Polish Americans, crammed the pin-neat houses pinched together on 30-ft. lots along residential streets like McDougall, Yemans and Poland. Every morning almost the entire working population would trudge off to Dodge Main. Hamtramck was a joyous, clean, democratic, workingman's town that drew Harry Truman, Adlai Stevenson and Jack Kennedy to campaign alongside proud mayors like Albert Zak, Joseph Grzecki and Raymond Wojtowicz. Robert Kozeran, the city's current mayor, remembers that at 9 p.m., when the factory whistle sounded to end the second shift, "If you were a kid and you weren...
...Mary B. Stevenson Ardsley-on-Hudson...
...Bruce Stevenson...
...started moving west from New York City, working as a horse dealer and "race rider." He sold tobacco in Bloomington, enlisted in the Army in 1861 and made brigadier general in four years. But in 1874 he was defeated for reelection to the U.S. Congress by Adlai Stevenson (Adlai Stevenson the first, people stress in McLean County, meaning the one who went on to become Vice President under Grover Cleveland from 1893 to 1897). McNulta read law, as was the go-getter's custom, and almost certainly profited by his duties as appointed receiver for an extraordinary number...