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...Frankfurt, World Welterweight Champion Sugar Ray Robinson over Hans Stretz, onetime German champion, a fifth-round knockout to wind up Robinson's whirlwind victory tour (five wins in five fights) of the Continent...
...Vincent Coll, the "baby killer" whose careless slugs were suspected when a rampaging Manhattan machine gun ripped into a four-year-old boy asleep in his carriage, cried to Liebowitz and Liebowitz got him off. Vera Stretz shot her German lover, Dr. Fritz Gebhardt, dead. Liebowitz saved her. Violinist Mischa Rosenbaum, last April murdered his pupil and mistress, Julia Nussenbaum, in a drunken orgy, slobbered to Liebowitz. The County believed Liebowitz' boast that they could never get a first-degree conviction, accepted a guilty plea of second-degree murder...
...popular press resoundingly agreed on the purity of Vera Stretz's motive for plugging Dr. Gebhardt even before the defendant took the stand...
After a week of journalistic antics, unequaled since the Hauptmann trial last year, the publisher of one of the greatest offenders revolted. In an editorial entitled WHAT IS HAPPENING TO JUSTICE? Captain Joseph Medill Patterson of the News printed examples of the most offensive coverage of the Stretz trial he could find, admitted that "the News did the cleverest and worst," then denounced "the practice ... of trying murder cases beforehand in the newspapers. . . . The real issue is whether Miss Stretz . . . was guilty of murder. . . . But the defense attorney ... is trying also to paint the dead man as some kind...
Following this unique self-castigation from the front office, the News blithely continued to print all the Stretz case testimony it could lay hands on, masterminded over the weekend: VERA TO TELL ALL IN BID TO EVADE CHAIR...