CRIME: Stench

Who has not seen, and marked suspiciously, a monster, oldtime touring car—a traffic-scarred 1915 Winton or an even older Fierce-Arrow, whose tarnished brass and torn leather adumbrated a bygone respectability—rolling heavily but with sinister smoothness through his city's streets, the big tonneau jammed to the guards with a lounging, ill-favored crew of foreign-blooded males whose pull-down caps and brooding faces caused the beholder to murmur: "Lordy, what a bunch of yeggs!"

Metropolitan newspapermen sent out to Canton, Ohio, to cover the now national Mellett murder case (TIME, July 26, POLITICAL...

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