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Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Jul 04, 1957

Page

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Detective Bretnall claims new evidence clears Dr Sheppard

Private investigator Harold B Bretnall said he has three new witnesses and a clue from Marilyn Sheppard’s red leather slippers to prove the innocence of Dr Sam Sheppard in the 1954 Bay Village murder. Cleveland officials remain skeptical while the Sheppard brothers push for further investigation.

Jack Lotto INS Sam Sheppard New York Harold B. Bretnall Marilyn Sheppard Bay Village Ohio Cleveland Bretnall Senate Crime Committee Marilyn Saul Danaceau Danaceau Sam Richard Sheppard International News Service Dr. Sam U.S. Supreme Court Peqstacelany UNRRA Sheppard

Subway vandalism hits leather cushions in Boston

In the past year knife wielding vandals slashed nearly 6000 leather seats on Boston subway cars. The Metropolitan Transit Authority plans to test a new virtually indestructible wood type seat to curb damage.

Boston Metropolitan Transit Authority

Polio Epidemic Strikes Johnson City Tennessee

In Johnson City Tennessee health officials report an epidemic of a mild non paralytic form of polio with seventeen hospitalizations in sixteen days. East Tennessee Health Director D R Alex Shipley confirms most cases are local and one patient has developed paralysis.

Johnson City Tenn East Tennessee D. R. Alex Shipley Shipley

Mild polio outbreak spurs vaccine drive in Nashville area

Health officials report a mild polio like illness spreading among youths. Tests by the state health department aim to confirm the disease in about ten days, with a second test during convalescence. Coxsackie or Echo virus are considered possibilities while vaccine campaigns inoculate 1,750 children and plan 600 to 1,000 more.

State Health Department Nashville R. H. Hutcheson

Witness Jackson's Assassination on Jim Bowie at 7

The Adventures of Jim Bowie will air on Channel 9 at 7:00 PM Friday featuring a witness scene titled Jackson's Assassination. viewers are advised to tune in for the episode's pivotal moment and dramatized account.

Craemer's Betty Barclay Doris Varnum Jackson Jim Bowie Channel 9

Wealthy Boston dog inherits $100,000 estate

One of the nation's wealthiest dogs, 10-year-old Welsh terrier Taffy, is set to benefit from a $100,000 estate placed in trust by Banker Frank B. Lawler upon his death. A housekeeper is named to care for Taffy for life.

Boston Taffy Frank B. Lawler

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