Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-08
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MAN ABOUT NEW YORK
IN JANUARY, 1889, two men
Salvatore Gait and Charles Sberna)
were executed for the murder of
cop named Wilson during a holdup
on Fulton st. -. There was no doubt
as to Gati's guilt - he was the only
man Sam Leibowitz (now a judge
lost to the electric chair But
Sberna always claimed innocence, and
on the day of the burning Gait named
another man as his accomplice (.
On the evening of their execution
Warden Lawes remarked to a re-
porter: "For the first time, I think,
we may be sending an innocent man
to the chair. I've done all I can to
save him - but nobody believes me"
SBERNA was never put right at the
scene of the crime by witnesses. They
claimed only that he Cooked like a man"
they saw running away from the scene
A few months later-"the other man. was
charging him with the murder of another
policeman "a Sergeant) in New York
Now the plot sckens i. d. By this time, when
witnesses of the first case took look at the
last man-they realized he was really Cats
accomplice But the other kid was be-
yond saving-and so the law had to free the
accomplice-without even trying him for the
Sergeants murder To do so would air
the whole blunder . And they couldn't
try him for the first murder-for which an
other man had already been put to death.
THE EDITORS in this town can depend
on me that all the above is true can't
reveal the name of the source-but he is one
OF the most respected ex-officials in the State
or New York and wherever he is known else
where Sberna's family land this can.
not prove), according to their intimates-
has been staked by "sort of hush fund.-
And the real killer, now free, is work.
ing for union The above story will
eventually be confirmed as definitely as
death In the electric chair
THE WHOLE Disney Congress flight Il fool.
lSh because he was paid In fun by the Treasury
Dept. several weeks ago. From this coI,m On
oct. "a. 1871: Ex-Warden Lawes will definitely
run against Congressman Fish in the "A cleo.
tons, and the wagering Is to that Iawes VIM
WIN The item was called ridiculous BY the
deniers. From the N. Y Herau-Trib Fab.
22nd: "Lawes May Run Against Fish In Prim-
airy In Fall. What about CONGRESSMAN Oliver
Mr. Federal Prosecutor Maloney? Didn't oliver
lend his frank to Charles Shipman Paysons
Commentator pieces and Iindbergh,s speeches3
THE Hays Office has murdered 'aThe 0-strinr
Murders" from Gypsy Rose Lees book-and
they won't permit anyone to film it.
BOOK PUBLISHERS are cutting one-eirbth
or an inch on tones already to conserve paper
-. The best book publishers go are stsndardix-
ing the jackets on non-fiction. "A Los Angeles
lawyer has complained to authorities that Japs
are using spot announcements on West Coast
hish-powered stations to relay code messages
to Toxic Earl Larrimore the stage star. n at
Saranac improving, his pals will be glad to learn
The NJ Y. Times Is prepared for an air raid
In It's annex lobby twhere the paper Is printed)
there's Disaster Wagon equipped with helmets
first aid kits. etc.. Lieut.. Jimmy Stewart was
almost crushed by admirers on his vixt Spencer
Tracy. too. Our favorite story Is the one about
the Ham Fish that didn't get away.
JOHN ROY CARISONS Our Fascist Enemies
Within, In the March American Mercury a n
corker. The story OF how John Carridine rot
away from Fox Is H'wood honey. Teeheei,..
Inc TICKET sales Is ternf for the Navy Relief
March 10th affair Cat the Garden) and the
testimonial to Quentin Reynolds at the Roose-
ve!t Hotel on the 7th. Quents Is for the British.
American Ambulance Corps. .Denison B. HUI.
prominent Chicago civic leader. will run against
Stephen A. Day for Cong-at-Large. Day n
named In the vereck Maxi propaganda mess
Betty Apple. the lovely at the LaMartiniuue
SHOW has reed three offers for screen tests after
one line about her beauty here Although Disney
got back cost 60 Gs). he lost $5e 900 on that
Donald Duck short
NO SQUAwK. Glad IL was found M IN mint.
Inc Times on Feb 10th. used this editorial page
illier The time has come for Uncle Sam to say
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