The Girls Of Murder City Part 19

247 An editor's note pointed out that: "Our 'Peaches' Has Got to Have a Jury!" NYW, Jan. 30, 1927.

248 Among those who signed up to cover the trial: "Maurine Watkins Sees Frustrated Ambition in Woman's Bitter Reviling," New York Telegram, Apr. 21, 1927; "The Olympian Eye," New Yorker, Apr. 30, 1927.

249 Time magazine pointed out that the "details": "Carnival," Time, Apr. 25, 1927.

249 "Strike up the band, for the show starts": "Playwright Says Dislikes Couple Didn't Realize Now Flame into Open Hate," New York Telegram, May 6, 1927.

249 More than a hundred seats in the courthouse: "Miss Watkins Suggests Press Agent for Gray," New York Telegram, Apr. 18, 1927.

250 "Feel depressed," she wrote: Woollcott.

250 On the first day of the trial, Maurine highlighted: MacKellar, 112.

251 In Philadelphia, the play was withdrawn: " 'Revelry' Withdrawn from Philadelphia Stage; 'Unpatriotic, ' " CDT, Sept. 7, 1927.

251 "The play that Miss Watkins fashioned is": "Wild Men," New Republic, Sept. 28, 1927.

252 George Jean Nathan, in the American: "The Theatre," American Mercury, Nov. 1927.

252 "Does your department pay damages to": Woollcott.

252 Nelson B. Bell, a Washington Post film: "Offerings at the Theaters: Rialto," Washington Post, Mar. 5, 1928.

253 The Chicago Tribune reported that: "Theater," CDT, Dec. 6, 1927.

253 Baker wrote to Maurine from Yale: Kinne, 268.

253 "I expect it will be the making of me": Watts, 92.

254 "I am not coming for a drink today": Woollcott.

254 But her themes and subjects changed little: See Hearst's International Cosmopolitan, July, Nov. 1927; July, Sept., Dec. 1928; Jan. 1929.

254 One, "b.u.t.terfly Goes Home," once again: "Real 'Chicago' Play Heroine Dies Unknown," Oakland (CA) Tribune, Mar. 14, 1928.

254 Instead she had come to believe that "the feminine": " 'Chair Too Good for Them,' Says 'Gentle s.e.x' Which is Ready to Save State's Time," New York Telegram, Apr. 20, 1927.

Epilogue.

256 "A Woman Jury to Try Women Slayers": Danville (VA) Bee, June 12, 1924.

256 Seven years later, in 1931, Illinois voters: "Women Juror Law Held Void by High Court," CDT, May 1, 1931.

256 Finally, in 1939, fifteen years after Beulah: "Women to Start Serving on Juries in September," CDT, July 9, 1939.

256 "Chicago men have suddenly become delighted": "Men Now Eager to Get on Jury; Reason: Women," CDT, Jan. 13, 1940.

257 "It was with a gesture of contempt": "Spurns Husband Who Saved Her from Gallows," Washington Post, July 13, 1924.

257 In January 1927, six months after her divorce: "Beulah Annan, Beauty Freed of Murder, Is Bride," CDT, Jan. 19, 1927.

257 At a divorce hearing Beulah told of "blackened": " 'Beautiful Slayer' Fails to Get Decree," Washington Post, May 8, 1927.

257 "She wasn't very beautiful": Oakland (CA) Tribune, Mar. 14, 1928.

257 On March 14, 1928, the Tribune wrote: "Beulah Annan, Chicago's Jazz Killer, Is Dead," CDT, Mar. 14, 1928.

258 "I cannot make myself realize that Beulah has given": Washington Post, July 13, 1924.

258 She mused publicly that Al's willingness to endure: " 'Chair Too Good for Them,' Says 'Gentle s.e.x' Which Is Ready to Save State's Time," New York Telegram, Apr. 20, 1927.

258 Ten years after Beulah left him, Al, now: "Dead Woman Linked with Stoll Kidnap," Brownsville (TX) Herald, Oct. 10, 1934.

258 The judge granted a request for a new trial: "Annan Goes Free in Party Slaying of Woman Guest," CDT, Dec. 29, 1934.

258 After moving into a luxurious: "Husband Sues Belva Gaertner, Freed in Murder," CDT, Aug. 1, 1926; Case S-443652 (Gaertner v. Gaertner, 1926).

259 This cowardice apparently infuriated Belva: "The Matrimonial Worm That Turned at Last," San Antonio Light, Jan. 9, 1927.

259 Another paper referred to her as: "Why the 'Cave-girl' Wants a Third Divorce from Hubby," Fres...o...b..e, Sept. 19, 1926.

259 She traveled to New York, Europe, and Cuba: Ship manifests, ancestry.com.

259 When William Gaertner died in 1948: "Business Left to Chicago U.," NYT, Dec. 15, 1948; Belva E. Gaertner probate notice, Pasadena Star-News, May 26, 1965.

259 Katherine Malm was a model prisoner: "Kitty Malm, 'Tiger Girl' of Sensational Murder Case, Is Dead," CDT, Dec. 28, 1932.

259 "Each time," the reporter recalled: "Dear Mrs. Griggs," a reprint of a five-part series that appeared in the Milwaukee Journal in March 1980, Ione Quinby Papers, Western Springs Historical Society.

259 Kitty tried to win early release in 1930: Joliet Penitentiary Record for Katherine Baluk (no. 418-9185), Illinois State Archives, Margaret Cross Norton Building, Springfield, Illinois.

259 In response, Quinby began to agitate: "May Free Convict," Charleston (SC) Gazette, July 19, 1931.

260 Elsie Walther, a prisoner advocate working for: "Ex-'Tiger Girl,' Kitty Malm, to Ask for Parole," CDT, Oct. 10, 1932.

260 In 1931, he was involved in riots: "Fear New Riots at Joliet; Tell Guards to Shoot," CDT, Mar. 25, 1931.

260 She soon began an advice column: "Angel of the Green Sheet," Coronet, Sept. 1953; "Mrs.Griggs," Mar., 1980.

260 "Whenever we had a tour come through": Author interview with Jackie Loohauis-Bennet, May 8, 2008.

261 Convinced she was failing: "Informally: Feminine Fallacies in Newspaper Work," CDT, July 17, 1927; Steiner and Gray, 14.

261 The following year, in 1926, O'Brien: "Noted Lawyer Shot in Chicago Gang War; 2 Killed, 3 Wounded," NYT, Oct. 10, 1926.

261 "You better lay down, Willie": ISA: O'Brien, 33.

261 O'Brien, wounded in the stomach: "Chicago Police War upon Bandits," NYT, Oct. 14, 1926.

262 O'Brien would win the Saltis case: ISA: O'Brien, 33.

262 He had begun drinking heavily: Case B-121999 (O'Brien, William and Zoe, 1925).

262 Four years later, he was disbarred: ISA: O'Brien, 30-40.

262 In 1939, in an attempt to regain: ISA: O'Brien, 27-29.

262 In 1944, facing new legal troubles: "William W. O'Brien Disbarred 2d Time; Five Others Banned," CDT, May 13, 1944.

262 In 1929, he was sentenced to three months: "Scott Stewart Ordered to Jail by High Court," CDT, Dec. 21, 1929.

262 Two years later, he beat back: McConnell, 136.

262 Stewart defended gangsters through much of the 1930s: "William Scott Stewart Dies Broke, Alone," CDT, Mar. 20, 1964.

262 On June 16, 1924, Sabella Nitti was released: "Mrs. Crudelle, Back on Nitti Farm, Rejoices," CDT, June 17, 1924; "Drop Charge of Murder Against Two Crudelles," CDT, Dec. 2, 1924.

263 " 'The woman in law'-and straig htaway": "The Woman in Law," Viewpoints magazine, Nov. 1924, series 3, folder 72, Helen Cirese Papers, Special Collections, University of Illinois at Chicago.

263 In the three years after Chicago made: "Theater," CDT, Dec. 6, 1927; "News and Gossip of the Times Square Sector," NYT, Aug. 25, 1929, Sept. 17, 1929; Woollcott.

263 In 1981, seeking to revive interest: "How a 1936 Screwball Comedy Illuminates Movie History," NYT, Feb. 1, 1981.

264 Maurine Watkins died of lung cancer: Letter from Fred J. Thompson to Mr. J. E. Smith, Oct. 9, 1969, William Roy Smith: Vice President of Abilene Christian College, 1940-1962 (MS9), Milliken Special Collections, Abilene Christian University Library.

265 Abend, who died in 2003, claimed: "Murder She Wrote," CDT, July 16, 1997.

265 "She didn't want to accept a dime": CDT, July 16, 1997; also see "Pssstttt! 'Chicago' Has a Secret Past," USA Today, Mar. 25, 2003.

265 Journalists and theater scholars recycled: Grubb, 193; Pauly, xiii.

265 University of Delaware professor: Pauly, xiii, xxix.

265 In a 1959 letter to an administrator: Letter from Maurine Watkins to W. R. Smith, Dec. 7, 1959, William Roy Smith: Vice President of Abilene Christian College, 1940-1962 (MS9), Milliken Special Collections, Abilene Christian University Library.

266 A 1935 stage revival in London: "London Dislikes Watkins Play," NYT, Mar. 14, 1935.

266 Bob Fosse had no desire to stage: Grubb, 201-3.

266 Fosse told his stars that, though Roxie and Velma: Ibid.

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