Drab as Dreiser was the murder of Marvin Drew. He was a jobless railroad section hand at Ashland, Miss. His wife Pearl, 30, had borne him three children, was great with a fourth. On a hot July evening last year he was asleep in his bed, with his daughter, Dorothy Louise, 7, at his side, when Mrs. Drew entered his room lumberingly, shot him through the heart. Her reasons: drink, other women, gossip.
Two days later Mrs. Drew delivered her baby just as her father, "Pop" Gunter, was being arrested for murder. Convicted on the perjured...
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