Miscellany: Widow

In Kansas City, Mo. plump, blue-eyed Mrs. Lottie Crumley, 34, confessed to police a plan to: 1) marry an ailing pool room attendant; 2) insure him for at least $1,000; 3) kill him in a fake hold-up or automobile accident; 4) collect the insurance and pay a gunman to kill the wife of a street car motorman and; 5) marry the motorman. "I am in love with the motorman," she concluded, "and he promised to marry me." Said the motorman: "She was a pest who was riding in my car at every opportunity."...

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