Last week Detroiters went to the polls and by a plurality of 30.956 voted to recall big, bluff Charles Bowles, their mayor. The returns were broadcast exultantly to the electorate from station WMBC in the LaSalle hotel by Announcer Gerald E. ("Jerry'') Buckley. About 1 a. m. he went downstairs, bought a late newspaper, sat in the hotel lobby to read more about the result in which he, for weeks a vigorous and vocal anti-Bowles partisan, had been largely instrumental.
Three men sauntered across the lobby toward Buckley. Shots were fired. Quickly the...
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