Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-26
to pay for a divorce.

He said we'd 60
through fake cere-
mony as far as the law went. but
it would be real with U.s. That's
when he gave me this ring"
To this small-town girl to whom
the outer symbols of smalI-town
responsibility still loom so large the
twisted gold ring which she wears
on the ring finger of her left hand,
meant everything.
You can take the girl out of the
village. but you cannot take the
village out of the girl.
Alone in her shabby apartment on upper
Broadway on that lonely day after Christmas.
temporarily deserted by Shonbrun. who had
sold all her possessions she wrote her mother:
Il haven't ten cents 1 hate everything
here. I don't know which way to turn 1
haven't a soul in New York 1 know.
I don't know what will happen next"
AS she sits in prison today Madeline Webb
is considerably more worried lest the citi-
zens OF her old home town think her guilty
of dancing In the nude at an undraped show
at the Worlds Fair than of murder.
She primly denies that she ever danced
in the nude show and adds as If to bolster
her declaration: ELI would never have per-
mitted it,"
He is adorable and sweet, intelligent and
well-bred," Madeline wrote her mother of
Shonbrun. a city slicker born to prey on
women, a common wife-and-child deserter,
a petty thug beneath the contempt but not
the attention of the police. He Is 80 won
derful. sweet. good to me. You will
love him when you see him."
Police, who were already looking for Shon-
brun on charges of robbing Mrs. Jean Salts
berry in Virginia Beach, Va. and Mrs. Helen
Cohen in New York City, would never have
recognized Madelines description of the petty
thug.
When police finally broke the Reich MUIR
der case with the arrest Of Madeline and
Shonbrun, they found the couple through the
shrewd work Of Detective Thomas Tunney
brother of Gene Tunney, former heavyweight
champion. They were arrested in a shabby
apartment in the Bronx.
When police asked them what they had
done with the five-carat diamond from Mrs
Reichs ring - the setting of which Hirschl
had already pawned - they indicated that 1t
was under the bed pillow in another slip
II have lived through the toughest week
Of my life" the weary woman told detectives
II have had TO live like a rat ducking in and
out Of doorways expecting to be arrested any
moment"
Madeline insists that she never called
Mrs. Reich, that she left the hotel early on
the day of the murder and never returned
When Shonbrun met her on a street corner
that night she says. and told her they had
been locked out OF their hotel room because
they couldn't pay the rent. she accepted il as
a matter Of course.
ut had happened to us so often before"
she says. I'VE were always being put out of
hotels, always having to leave our clothes
behind Once we stayed up all night in the
PENNSYLVANIA Station
Her pathetic loyalty to shonbrun has not
wavered so far
Eli couldn't have killed Mrs. Reich"
Madeline insists. He isn't that kind
didn't phone her. 1 haven't talked 10 her in
year and half! I've never phoned anyone
but Els mother
When we read in the papers that the
police were hunting us Eli wanted me TO go
tell them I had nothing TO do with the muir
der Of poor Susie. But didn't. ! couldn't
leave Eli. He has heart trouble. He was sick
and couldn't leave him. couldn't leave Eli.
love him more than all the world put to-
gether."