For the last three weeks every arsonist out of jail in Chicago has been shivering in his boots. Reason was a fat, squat little grandmother named Bertha Warshovsky who was comfortably seated in an armchair at the State Attorney's office telling her life story.
Into the business of arson enter three parties: 1) the owner of a well-insured establishment. 2) the middleman, 3) the firer. An arson-bound store owner can find many a middleman who, for some $2,000, will arrange a fire. But the middle-man can find few skillful firers. Bertha Warshovsky, Chicago's...
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