Abend and
Annan and
Butcher as reporter at
Chicago and
Franks (Leopold and Loeb) case and
Gaertner and
Linotype machines at
Malm and
Nitti and
Stewart and
Watkins hired at
Watkins’s resignation from
women jurors and
Chloupak, Eugene
Cirese, Helen
Foster and
Nitti and
City News Bureau
Cocoanuts, The
Cohan, George M.
Coogan, Jackie
Cook County Jail
Annan in
bootlegging at
bribery at
Criminal Courts Building and
Gaertner in
“jail school” and
Malm in
Nitti in
Coolidge, Calvin
Corcoran, William
Cornell, Paul
Coronet
Courier and Reporter (Waterloo)
Criminal Courts Building
Cronson, Bert
Crowe, Robert
Crudelle, Peter
Currey, Margery
Dannenberg, W. C.
Darrow, Clarence
David, Joseph B.
Davies, Marion
Davis, Jefferson
Decatur Review
DeMille, Cecil B.
Dempsey, Jack
Detroit, Mich.
Dever, William
Dolly, Louise
Double Indemnity (Cain)
Dougherty, Patricia
Dreiser, Theodore
Dunne, Finley Peter
Durant, Will
Durante, Jimmy
Durkin, Jimmie
Epicurus
Erbstein, Charles
feminism
Field, Marshall
Fisher, Amy
Fitzgerald, David
Fitzgerald, James M.
flappers
Forbes, Genevieve
on bohemians
Chicago and
Gaertner and
“jail school” and
Malm and
Nitti and
Stopa and
Fosse, Bob
Foster, Lela
Franks, Bobby
Franks, Flora
Franks, Jacob
Franks, Josephine
Frydryk, John
Gable, Clark
Gabriel, Gilbert W.
Gaertner, Belva
acquittal of
Annan and
as cabaret performer
Chicago and
childhood of
at courthouse
detectives and
horseback riding of
inquest into Law’s death
in jail
jury selection in trial of
Law shot by
Malm and
Nitti and
photograph of
physical appearance of
police and
press and
as taxi driver
trial of
Unkafer case and
Watkins and
William’s divorces from
William’s marriage to
William’s meeting of
William’s remarriage to
Gaertner, William
Belva’s arrest and
Belva’s divorces from
Belva’s marriage to
Belva’s meeting of
Belva’s remarriage to
death of
detectives hired by
Galluzzo, Dominick
gangsters
Gibbons, Floyd
Gilbert, Paul T.
Gilman, Mildred
Glaskoff, Vladimir “Ted”
Goldstein, Alvin
Goodwin, Paul E.
Gray, Henry Judd
Greenwich Village
Griffin, Otilla
Griggs, Bruce
Haeckel, Ernst
Hamilton, Samuel
hanging
Harding, Warren
Harlib, Edward
Harlow, Jean
Harper, Walter H.
Harris, Sam H.
Harrison, Carter, Jr.
“Hatrack” (Asbury)
Haver, Phyllis
Hays Code
Hearst, William Randolph
Hecht, Ben
Hemingway, Ernest
Herrick, John
Hopkins, Peggy Joyce
Howey, Walter
Hughes, Langston
Hughes, Rupert
Hungerford, Edward
Hunt, Sam
Hurst, Fannie
I Love You Again
Jacobs, Aletta
Janning, Emil
Jennings, Al
Johnson, Nunnally
juries, women on
Kalstedt, Harry
criminal record of
murder of
Kelliher, Patrick
Keneally, Patrick
King, Blanche
Kitt, Eddie
Klarkowski, Stanley
Konpke, Anna
Lardner, “Lucky Chubby”
Lardner, Ring
Larrimore, Francine
Law, Freda
Law, Harry J.
Law, Walter
murder of
Leathers, William F.
Lee, Edward T.
Lee, Robert M.
Lee, Sonia
Leese, Mary
Lehman, Edward
Leopold, Nathan
Leopold, Nathan, Sr.
Libeled Lady
Lincoln, Abraham
Lindsay, William
Linotype machines
Loeb, Richard
Lombard, Carole
Loohauis-Bennett, Jackie
Los Angeles Times
Lovering, Fred
Love, R. M.
Lowden, Frank
Loy, Myrna
Lusk, Edward
McCarthy, Jay J.
McClintock, Billy
McCormick, Anne
McCormick, Robert
McGearald, Robert
McGinnis, Anna
Machinal
McLaughlin, William
Annan and
McMillan, Robert
McNally, William D.
McPherson, Aimee Semple
Malm, Katherine “Kitty”
Chicago and
Chicago Tribune stories on
childhood of
conviction of
daughter of
death of
Gaertner and
in jail
King and
Nitti and
Quinby and
in state penitentiary
suicide attempt of
trial and conviction of
Watkins and
Malm, Otto
Manning, Henry
Mantle, Burns
Marshall, Rob
Mayer, Howard
Medill, Joseph
Meehan, Margaret
Meredith, George
Millay, Edna St. Vincent
Milwaukee Journal
Montana family
Moran, Eugene
Moskowitz, Belle
Mulroy, Jim
Murder for Love (Quinby)
Murname, Edward
Murphy, Malachi
Nash, Thomas
photograph of
Nathan, George Jean
Neel, Mary
Negri, Pola
Nesbit, Evelyn
New Haven Register
New Republic
New York, N.Y.
Watkins in
New York Daily News
New Yorker
New York Herald Tribune
New York Society for the Suppression of Vice
New York Telegram
New Yor
k Times
New York World
Nietzsche, Friedrich
Nitti, Charlie
Nitti, Frank
Nitti, Sabella
Annan and
Chicago and
Cirese and
at courthouse
Forbes and
Gaertner and
in jail
Malm and
press and
retrial of
suicide attempts of
transformation of
trial and conviction of
No Man of Her Own
O’Banion, Dean “Dion”
O’Brien, W. W.
Annan and
Chicago and
Shepherd and
O’Donnell, Myles
O’Grady, John
Oliver, Clifford
Olmsted, Frederick Law
O’Neill, Eugene
Orthwein, Cora
Patrick, Zoe
Patterson, Joseph Medill
Pauly, Thomas H.
Piculine, Anna
Pioch, Myna
Poe, Edgar Allan
Pope, Alexander
Powell, William
Pritzker, Harry
Prohibition
bootleggers and
Quinby, Ione
advice column written by
Annan and
book published by
Malm and
Nitti and
Stopa and
Quinn, Morris
radio
Rascoe, Burton
Reilly, Tom
Reinking, Ann
Revelry
Ricca, Paul
Rivera, Chita
Robertson, H. H.
Rogers, Ginger
Rogers, Will
Roosevelt, Theodore
Ross, Ishbel
Roxie Hart
Rubel, Richard
Saltis, Joe
Scoffield, Harriet
Scott, Owen
SEX
Sharpe, H. M.
Shepherd, William D.
Sheriff, John
Simpson, O. J.
Smith, Vieva Dawley “Doodles”
Smith, Yeremya Kenley
Snyder, Ruth
Sob Sister (Gilman)
Solberg, Marshall
Springer, Joseph
Stefano, Rocco de
Steffen, Walter
Stensland, Paul
Stephens, Perry
Stevens, Ashton
Stewart, William Scott
Annan and
Chicago and
gangsters defended by
Stopa, Harriet
Stopa, Henry
Stopa, Walter
Stopa, Wanda Elaine
Chicago and
disappearance of
drug use of
epilepsy of
Forbes and
funeral for
husband of
law career pursued by
in New York
press and
Quinby and
shooting by
Smith and
suicide of
Watkins and
Strictly Dynamite
“Summer People” (Hemingway)
Time
Tinee, Mae
Torrio, Johnny
Touhy, Roger
Tracy, Spencer
Treadwell, Sophie
Tribune Plant Building
Tunney, Gene
Unkafer, Elizabeth
Chicago and
conviction of
Urson, Frank
Valentino, Rudolph
Van Bever, Julia
Van Bever, Maurice
Vanity Fair
Verdon, Gwen
Virgin Man, The
Walther, Elsie
Wanderer, Carl
Wanderer, Ruth
Washington Post
Watkins, Dorotha
Watkins, George Wilson
Watkins, Maurine
adaptation work of
Annan and
background of
Browning divorce and
Chicago move of
Chicago Tribune’s hiring of
death of
drama studies of
fame of
Florida move of
Franks (Leopold and Loeb) case and
Gaertner and
Malm and
as movie critic
myth and misunderstanding about
in New York
physical appearance of
play written by, see Chicago
Quinby and
reporting style of
resignation from Chicago Tribune
screenwriting career of
short stories written by
Snyder-Gray trial and
Stopa and
withdrawal of
Way of All Flesh, The
Weiss, Hymie
West, Mae
Wezenak, Mary
WGN
White, Stanford
Wilcox, W. W.
Wilde, Oscar
Wilson, Edmund
Wilson, Edward
women jurors
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom
Woods, Ernest
Woods, Roy C.
Woolf, Virginia
Woollcott, Alexander
Wright, Frank Lloyd
1
Ninety years before Maurine, Jefferson Davis studied the same texts in the same classrooms.
2
Jennings had been a notorious train robber in the late 1890s. After serving five years in prison, he worked on silent-film Westerns and later ran for governor of Oklahoma.
3
The nicknames had nothing to do with Kitty’s alleged crime. They simply made for good headlines.
4
Maurine never named her tough West Side gunman, but it may have been Myles O’Donnell (of the West Side O’Donnells), who was shot three times in November of 1924 but survived.
5
Photographs of the suspect in her revealing attire had to be cropped at the collarbone to run in Friday’s newspapers.
6
The story inspired a leering cartoon strip in the next edition. “Harry has bought some booze—some red wine—prophetically red, like blood. Al is forgotten—shoved into the discard,” a caption read, under a drawing of a giddy, tipsy Harry and Beulah in the midst of undressing.
7
Her given name was Isabella and her nickname Sabella, yet most of the papers insisted on calling her Sabelle.
8
The Los Angeles Times dramatically undercounted Chicago’s murderesses. One hundred two husband-killers alone were tried in Cook County between 1875 and 1920. Sixteen were convicted, nine of them African American.
9
Wanda, like William Scott Stewart before her, graduated from the John Marshall Law School.
10
The inmates were allowed to use makeup only on days they appeared in court.
11
Maurine could be rather careless with names. It took her more than a month to spell Harry Kalstedt’s name correctly. She also initially flubbed Belva Gaertner’s and Walter Law’s names.
12
The $350 rent they paid when they moved into the Temple Building in 1925 is comparable to more than $4,000 eighty years later.
13
Nor were Alvin Goldstein and Jim Mulroy of the Chicago Daily News. Their dogged detective work would lead to valuable evidence, for which they would be awarded a Pulitzer Prize.
14
It’s possible that they missed it, as the Leopold-Loeb case pushed Maurine’s story back to page 4. The Daily News and the Hearst papers managed to find places on their front pages for Belva, even with banner headlines devoted to the Franks killing.
15
Roxie Hart was the name of a woman who’d been involved in an extramarital affair gone awry near Maurine�
��s hometown when Maurine was in high school. Roxie’s boyfriend murdered a man in an attempt to keep the affair a secret, leading to a trial that was widely reported in Indiana.
16
The raves may have helped. There’s no record of the play jury offering comment on Chicago.
17
Chicago was indeed filled with awful swearing, which embarrassed Maurine. As she was the author, she was now hard-pressed to claim no acquaintance with such language. She tried, though: A rumor floated around that she had left blank spaces in the script where the swear words were supposed to go, to be filled in by the director and actors.
18
On the first day of the trial, Maurine highlighted her own celebrity status by taking Chicago star Francine Larrimore with her to the Long Island City courthouse to watch the proceedings.
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