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Frost is going over interesting moments in the ,twentilve years she spent .rdigging up the facts in erime stories for Amin'can-newsthat were a poire of her papers, and the thrilling experiences - jourmaiitie career, UERE - t' o -- -- DOROTHY DIX, .6 . ,, " , ' - , - ,4 , --- --. - - - , - - , - 01t r: 1 4 4 1i , - , i Josephine-Terra- ' k the"Contession of the Girl Murderess, .,- - ei Y , r - 1 .; , 11 oz.. , .1. - -- , ., 17) 7t..1 - Beat -- nova,---ah- the-PoliF- e il thOWitrailé1itig,btl$tilliingirittinia.:. 11' I ., , P G .0' i (1 z 4 - my '-,- ) A I . t "Y '"enoic2 4 - - - li! i - t . , ' - '., - 1 I ---- - - " 01"14 4 It'''':-.27- - -- 4 ' ; , , -- - A - , ;,-- -- - ,e.. ' C - - - d 1 e --- - - - , --- n Woman- Reporter, tells'Ho-w- She Solved the ained "ThePrisoner of Mystery of , --10 , , - Oh - t 4 , i ''''' . 11 irt 11 4.0 . the world of reporteis You OUTS ., a lot about "'coons" and "clean ---br eett"--brit , 3,ott don't bent so 111"'"" '''--' ' ' about them among the reporters them. , ,. ' eels's, says Dorothy , Dix. - - - "Every reporter knows that luck tali .1 , a lot to do with it when anewspaper , 4, . Dula or woman gets a resd beat'. I re- ' , member only three that I was lucky , - enough to get ist all my years of news- --1 -- ., , ' paper reporting. One was the Josephine Terranova ease in New York, in wh ip . . that little - 4 -- 4' Italian murdered her aunt ' and uncle wit h agirl " v ' knife. One was the I ' etort of a woman I called 'The Prisoner . tat Lulu' i uP at s little town called lion.---1- . . , N And one wu a nuir.,--- - -der In Virginia, of which the name k , I can recall was the name ofonly the mis . , tress of he husband who murdered Ms , srife--th- at was Beulah Binney. -- -And luck was an element in all , of those stories on which I was three ,i' lucky , - notigh to get a clean beat." i , , Horrible murders, two of them. : An - : astounding case for s psychologist, that , of the "Prisoner of Love.' And if those are the three 'scoops of Dorothy Dix, Abe I. , pkkd three classicL - ' . Begin with the amazingstory of Josephine Terranova, just as Dorothy 1 Atnitica!i'13ést-Know- --- -- ' get it -- 6 dat . ilo' t Eterttal.Triangle'' Affair' (a., . - over than to bays 1er pur- sued unendingly by reporters as she. would be until the story was printed? k ethuThlenvilorl w:reeiltt gstraimionteinghoht dressrheagai,edu.sarlanderI nbabyeathitsercsontficswereAufroatbegheldesomeidguttluved': ousnentkaanadeootbooseket;futoilitetvtoenit bevp to short-ord- restaurant, ostenaly for bk1 er sown use. I 1, "So thoroughly seas her presence tea. There Int' some sort of a turnkey there. I gave him a dollar to take that note coaled from the tovnusfolk that Veen' , ....... ', to the woman. After a while be came even commented, wondering where she .L tack and said that she had read it and bad gone. 'That affair of the old Judite to seems book and '16V4k. little the agent nest 10 o'clock the pretty 1061 . 1, would see me at 1 7 have ended.' theY'd : Aeltilr"..-I '1 ' I those room beck little that during 'In P hotel I to the went, back Stiaight 'There was a young Italian ,,,,,, attorney 1,tr -- left a- call for 9 A. X , and this time oeven.years she teught heradf French ' "r - , who used to do occasional 11.507.7.0".;,. .11Mr..1 legal work - - ' I slept.-F14' 051" You should bay. seen that and atenoffreehr.-- - She seemed to know for first editor. my One ha came ' to shift ....,,..5 to the editor and asked himday . jailer's fate, and the faces of the other that some day she would haveolclar -to have tue ,, .17s , than - round the front for herself, he was so much sent down' to interview a little Italian newspapermen gathered . r" ' ' 44, I be was defending on a when I appeared there just she. - that of gir jail of , NA - murder. The case hadn't comecharge 'Then, after seven years' voluntary before 10 A. IL and said that Miss to trial , , remember. in that little back room. I . was l'he girl was in a cell in the Tombs. her name. , impriamment ' Branchthat yet. -N4'''. g -. nowvm waiting to see me and wanted living- - Ile much more quietly than a , She didn't speak a word of English.' , . There had been Just a mouse that the sharpest-nose- d tositz I to see Ina. ' story from police ' dreamed she on how town never headquarters the she ' country had murdered - her aunt and uncle with a knife in some ti A il LONG as I live 111 never forgot 'was there, the old Judge dropped dead is ' , kind of a family quarrel, file wouldn't Zl Miss Branch's face or the story there one night. Frightened to deatk ill 1 tell the detail. ,The story wits dropped told. She was a charming. refined she ran out on the streets screaming for , she 1 , . : after the first day.- It jacked 144 just , woman betvreen 38 and 40. But all the help. And the thot man she raa lute ,r, world seemed was the Judge's own . agony gind sorrow in the ' alS0 I was assigned to ' voice was Her face. go down and , het on. - ' ' " " stamped ', ,, interview Josephine. The little Italian "'",r.,", , . , . rY011 ran imagine the furor in ."..rr-1,--. deld'Hande aldwaaLys' liked what you- wrote. lawyer went along as interpreter. At . , when this liras learned. , ,,, , : first be kept shutting Josephine off when 'Ir she said Why, the Judge having been such a sN - , miss Dix,' was the first thing 4 she started to talk. All he , , r ' to read what you prominent lawyer, most of the scandals interpreted t e' - - , -- tone. WebYused was routine prosaic stuff. - Then I got i side, and, talk it over of the whole section bad been talked . side wrote, mad. 'flee here,' I said, 'if rm to help . ' , consented to goo over in confidence in his trent office - - -- this girl, you've not to let ma ask all togethel. That's why I "And. oh; the story that came out, and Dorothy Dix tells- in ' and there she wu the time sitting ; ' thi,,,e,..que,.,141,,,, v.,,..,,,,,,,..ant Y11,1'regt 14. don't want you to behind that partition that didn't even - her own graphic fashion of that Interview ' looked at her. through the barre d '' : ' ' Branch,' Miss refused.'"! coa as reach os--and a me of reporter. the which ulolt fame tell think of ceiling all over the country and -) ,bearing every gave her you to look at me as word of it. hi ananteds And, oh, Lila story that I said. 'I want freed, the little girl charged with a hideous crime ', "But else had lived away from all one wonutn who is sorry for anothe;. -, ' ' And she threw ter rout around me human contact except for the nuns she ? she him told of what had hap- memory. , In Richmond they still called and cried. Tee. loved for those seven ' itTosznErzNrs Uncle and aunt were. thing, and we cried and cried . . yearsend when pened at her uncle's house through all him a earpet-bagge-r. Be had gone But she cried more. And he died she child:44C The uncle Tali a haler those too. tried. . , simply could not staid to long and horrible months. The South to Virginia after the war and to women crying have people near her. That is get emPlennt forty men, and by the Padrene young husband rushed out of the house had when a couple of why she built up a great fortune. He owned to tell had Bed to . system an forty ata their meals ft his distracted. lie did not return. " you know they're going the to trent together, away get jail a chain of furniture stores, es I remem- home over the bakery. Tha.mtine-- 6. .was. they know. everything people. bad floor. th3 to fallen bor. 'Josephine And, strangely for a APIt. be was my story. Miss ,,,' getting rich- - He Wr"o to atnaPninn I Two ,- . 'Before I tell you-a"How was that for a story to have all and two nights she lay on that insane with social autbitiouman, -The foal to know that to father and mother In Italy, telling them floor. days 4' ; want ll you said, s,. she in an abandon of grief. Dlx,' yourself, with a horde of newspaper. -, runbe had no child and if they would send safullyafter and ' 1,' zrfhohiswouldlifebewasrecognizedro bad love pressed down as she fell. Neighbon F.hilvd men Tsiting just outside eager to get 1",..7-1 just ,.. bey' ... ' Josephine to Ammica he and his wife sward that life. So - many the it? n was ; '''' they thought a dog was sick mint over in my But not me. the First ya mines of yirgitda. genuine love, too- - Why, -would treat her as their own daughter. or hurt oomewbers Whet. -- in the neighborhood. Miss Branch, after the story came out, staved, for love. 4.Hia ton was a handsome,. wild . It looked like a tine chance for the girt. They heard this unending moaning, bad love.' bite 4,,, you ng WI' offered thousands of dollars to go ever happens. I have He bed a flat in which Prntuttlate- The parents sent ber to New York. ', that of a wounded animal,. Into the movies or to write her expert. "Sho was a beautiful childrare Ital- - - Then Josephine arosehhe went out Beulah Binney presided as his mistress. told the most antes- - enees. She refused if - Ian A MD then she Madonna-...wo- n si every offer. She like a beautyeyes from 'searching for her husband. She couldn't Ilanolewanintedlovtae winiathrnherh.e7Butlihelswfaasthin-ins story I ever heard froths-- asi)urned that money. There ' derful hair and a inarrekate eemPiezien. find him. ,Iblere on hours she rode collate t Dorothy Dixtells of woman'a lips. Eh e was a wasn't a legal charge in the world And her uncle and aunt made a scul- - around in street cars. Conductors and wenidn hear at such a women's atarriage. lie e of the great Eastern el..... Bon out of ben Thei made her scrub motormen testified later against her. They couldn't hold her any they had seen had Picked out a flirt ter his son's wife ', ""'""rHer mother bad died after a ' longer than she wanted to stay. She and cook and ern the meals tor those. her, dime& sitting there and riding to who 'erste unquestionably coneys. . recognized as An 4 Th e doctor faded out of eight. That was bakers.' They made her wash the end of the line. Then her Italian sa rd 11-.- V., and he threatened to cut mond, who, .',111tua2zingsbilln, mesa. El - fortr out in the It imply be,explained, was get some twelve years ago. I've often, woo.- clothes. She mat working from day- - soul filmed. - All night long she had rid- - ' off the son without a penny, without tem had worked out this 11',e Us. bad all the an 1,.,BA--er break to dark. Even the workmen she den about town. She got a knife. A allowance-eve- n, dered just what became n tzleIrpli if the boy would not on It'l and thee they had "heel ' ituPene pf her. through served got to talking about it. - But the long, etrong kitchen knife,- sharp as a rtuuTy tha girl the old men had hint ff the cas e and put some 'd ud so 4 e-pkied. 141' York New of child knew no better.' She was toe razor. In the dawn she went to heir. 'Beulah told the boy to had that story all to myself! mks the inountainto region go ahead end tective' cdt the case before he could help pay her way.- She - kis books young, and women worked in the village tmcle's house. She met him coming marry her. du &cull need I put it on the wire? I did rt. log I:er walked she into nett I hit the ' 11' Then one day ,from which she came. Apparently her down the stairs to give orden In the an y difference with us: she next train back to New the 5 1 me, gays you ' She tried . , only Consolation or amusement was bakery. So the boy nuuTied, and York and wrote the story in ths Ake. et the bank in this tttio teem ti y a Dix,'that Rzchnumd oreporter talkwas Ile devout hook. a was She Ma& a to banker word church, at she a thrust dwithottt going boa was born to him and his wife, Th. wapted to do something for Will to sell the I seruldn't have trusted that story with - Catholic. lawyer, a He was a big, fat, gross man. With grandmother was happy because , 11,,, 61pr ing with-- the town's greatest outside the office. I remember , ense l' .0T14, was knew alto when 18, ludge- -1 anybody terrific slash she ,literally dime,- the money she wanted. The 'Then, Z.'Would It help? I'll 'say It lielPeL ' seri et e' eerAlver-e'The rilevuet of grandfather , boweled him. ,I1,er satm. t him!! 11417 was happy because his tri.ord, ol,,EItg..ilizh and,IteveLtleft,.thil resentful Richmond detective gave who iris itwe ''''''bani--e; she was known under that name Am grandson'sThat house without ber aunt guarding herb'', and came rushing out With around. me the was an whole story, and I ked nsy second mother P. F. V. But the over the country. too. went she book "that Dix should a slew her slash on, he Dorothy unspeaki exactly buy that Josephine as, . was miserable.' Ile wanted Beulah with- -. clean beat on what proved to be one of lawyer ' over you're dispeOed to argue that - , able aunt handed her over to that un- - had slain the men. The lawyer said h a would. He told ,. . t he reatst murder eases of the time. out any other comlicatios truth isn't stranger than fiction, Just -a' almost hie hers mistressuncle of es told look me Coroner Tilt it speakable alSe the rungater' who bad a '(talf- "moemteenthisthey remember that story. Ca li yes --- -and they made her keep on with all her eoperbutpan inuscle to deliver two suck Was''Ila hie picture That cousin 1 named wit Paul, f recall, ge4 what any fiction editor would say to a When Josephine slashes with a knife and inflict two household drudgery. her took her and walked to face he We a Love.' Prisoner up vaul of be in ambush 'got ewhey. - writer who ht a fiction led weeping to her aunt after that such ghastly wminds on human' beings - fortside of taWuhmton D. chel on meager wire in Mew York one day that hands.- Me moment I saw you I - knew asserted that in small story casually - awful experience, ber aunt consoled her heavily clad. But Josephine had almost a town told Fast be said country was that up in Monticello there htr. a a you were .my mate,' ahofitt the wife' with 'You know, men are like that. : superhuman muscle.. By the drudgery the yiramm side....and woman who had kept herself voluntarily work, wasn't it? But the curious part woman lived seven years in the back the husbend drove h6 past a room of a Its all right' But after that they '' didn't in which they had kept her for years when lawyer's offfce, content with a prisoner in a house for the love Of of it was that be was right. They her uncle end aunt bad built up the - tain spot on a country road. The young a lnan, and at last had . even let Josephine go to church. "He loved her at first sight, and she her love affair with an aged lawyer and gone voluntarily -. vr,i,lei out there accord- were afraid she might ten a priest. - - strength that was their own destruction.,Iiis uwa...........: 18 a,, loved him in the same blinding dash of her presence there absolutely unk;sown ing to schedule. He stopped the car, , "Of The neighborhood, 'was gostdping continued Dorothy Di; And, train for revelation , They couldn't marry. H. to the small-tow- n the first I took If course, gossips? that, and out to on around irtory began got putter the about the way they 'were working went back to my office the only reporter Monticello. I went atraltht to the Jail was married and had grown children. were written as fiction it would be for Pow where wheel; wititi child to death, bit no word of the scan- - in the world who had that story!' It et th4t, wire the said the woman was- - , - She became his mistress. She got quer- - scoffed al the wildest, most impossible , 1 vrif his to shoot o'' B u sea front ' t k st . r got out. Josephine was under dal Iced New York. Some said it shocked told who I was and whom ters in a nearby small town and he would and fantastic stuff that a writer ever the Jailer Id feet and goo. back - Paul bad got sont's or her uncle's eye all the the world. Acquit her. Of Purse we , ' , dreamed. wanted 'Yet scowled $ee. I to at Me. Ile it ' happened in real Dee. 1' visit hot secretly at night.- Be had been . time. Then a young Italian appeared did. . 'Ton caPires.that wool" If Pen eta' a : great track athlete in his youth, but - 'Truth is stranger than fiction. I en the ng devil took out a p ne, attracted by Josephine 's "That clean beat on Josephim Terra. - So that here a hundred years,' he told me. seeThe stories of had own H. and shotAis luck. triym.A bi. a rens and Injured the have seen and reported haPpenings the on And with and e drudgery. beauty erif.a noes. you see, was pure tawis is full bt P'881 damn reP8rterl foot so that he limped. real life that would be dismissed as toe ' ' was a plasterer, ,young and clean and ad came because I gave a man w- h- en- arm around bones the dying woman, steering "nds , pestering around Nero and trying to see Then there wu a Are one g H 8 pro-- he was broke a newspaper reporter . - with Ab e other hand, all end in utterly fantastic and improbable if they ambitions and night, ' , her. She lin going to see any of you as ilition.Bundrode et , his ortfe 's blood, h e dee m ber back into -theether,eitiaem fight it, ha weriLwrittan posed to J osephine . She said she would unless she toend she don't want helping. h Mori es. , -, -- -- , a- story of bandits. to. I don'twants merry him. At first the uncle raged 46eNBE only mime I Clin re'member in ,WaabinSten. He stopped into a barrel of acid end further, 113! who care are you UMW-41- in --' t,hose and raised a devil el a row - Then when 1. that ease, es I ssild;was that of riher took bloodhounds to- - the spot.- - The hie. was feet se that it NWma impaa, inur.---injured. wentdefinite. I 'That tounded -- - the young Italian faced him down and s nun to make the ,Journey be- - der of a wife by the 1 usba, the B- z of the husbeW bloodhounds wouldn't trpil. Suspicions - back to town andpretty - ..;.. .1. found a hotel. There Bibe for to get married. in, Terranova case end Beulah J see oun , Auld It was no crime can ....,.. y who g,11 andtween. MonticellnAnd .thesmallnea. rby, Josephim tnepete....;:,... -oner ,,..lide,t.aeamteheeaything.ta40 Armvielywhea.yee could rapport-- a wiles JUBt - ----- g.s, an inn Iefore ' i;:nci L.....r.7...ter otaft.r I... town waken she where area kim. were for among 1 et, tho es I went to bed teith that story resting . e. the uncle consented with a leer. "You know what she did Big, ' "I went to Richmond. vs. I put up 'nighty heavy on For SeVell strangest 1 eve new. But mere than You know the kinc! was mial la : ok my "Our little Josephine will come itack me today. menthat, the thy" old Jetrersmt Hetet Present) Ire the witb t,m but became at 17 she a three old, only . years tan voluntary tennis" prisonet buxom, , cold, hitter mid. in ti middle of the ahead and - to ne soot4P be said. Tie -tarn of e bsbY if.sbt hIld anI InlIntallt7 I will told 'I man 111144 to see Ms In ' might sat etrairbt et, in bed. I bad in a little room back of his lawyer'd 'clean beat I ever got In a , ' i merry beg If you rant to.-I went down Its was- a tat an Idea. I In that littla- town of Kontxcello. newspaper reporter." GIOTiOUS yellow hair. aatinY skin. tho 1..1.1. ,,7 at , got out of bed In that' oinco down-eniheek-.he was Just be mows( her t i;Al'A. . Be Pew, was told hotel stride n .;e7sk:filo:reslm'arcIr outeeeaul!Td PeriendrehiPerterin 16ntrYirs--: .. and. icolnoecwiln blossomed ahnteit wrothattetromthat ww omailat : A ittlet 'altn.,poppy. I never asked mo a letter. mum realize quite how much a Next . . ity Dorothy Dix iitie simply didn't have $50 that had heard of her rase it was greater rear room partitioned off. Why, that s. Joapphins married her would make the mistake of calling her told him ProP het he ' motit immorld. was him. she lead &add I one wasn't las Sbe I said, 'But: immoral. an - than the Mary of Helois& and Abelard., partition didn't even go up . the way e,-,- bares to de reader 7oung suitor. The whole neighborhood was glad that she was to be freed from lust minimal. 'She bad no more idea of reporter to inothar, here's $0, old man, it was One of the gnat love stories of to the ceiling.. Can You Picture it? For mpelatioms in ,,t,ck -In back allelft,.andklet you Aoki it .a, tom her that terea.7,mrs Aber woman lirecti, that, ""Initrcler-fritold ter..-be drudging slaverg..in.whthey bad Morals than . a 141 cat world; eases as tits Evelyn pes so long., Josephiso and her, ! That murder was caused bY tha so. it will ley you. ,any.! - Es took it and I was there hoping to write of the 'case little back 700111 and not a soul In all : for 't her seen , Naw , patur....: stain, and tho thanked father a me. of to ambitions cial -. the holm went he boy's had litta . , town wouldn't Ittgband and dreamed of be sympathetically, that it country Noe Roseathal, prying rot pie bleir-ta- z ' 9 the .itsasev4ust. girl's 7 alother-------- The furnished, And that very night be breaght betterto UV 11'01611411 who could syn. " ter existence; t Tor ifghteen 'months Dr. Carmax case and vital thhalts-1,.- ghild ,would. , tell of , any casual father's name is simply gone from say the hotel tbo thief of detectives in Flick--- pathin with bet write the story and fore the old judge died she didn't even aa of ildit Whaler slut Eltio Sigel. ,, I lb lo, ......--..- .., 5 . - , ) -- -- , I rr fl..sJ - . - ---- Ntt ik -- - . -- - , ' , son-inda- w - , . - -'' - t- - 4 ,,4 . , - 8 ,. 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