Vexed because the rich Los Angeles broker who had furtively married her took his mother, instead of her, to a party last New Year's Eve, emotional Helen Wills Love, 31, went to the party anyway, shot Mr. Love dead. Mrs. Love's arrest, indictment and trial turned out to be the midwinter sensation of Southern California. She was amply photographed kissing her late husband in his coffin, and during the trial one of the women jurors was removed for habitually getting drunk on liquor which she hid in the women's toilet. Fortnight ago, the...
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