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Waterloo Evening Courier in Waterloo, Iowa

16 Feb 1927

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Waterloo Evening Courier

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Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Feb 16, 1927

Page

11

Frantic affair ends in murder near Waverly Junction

Laura Acker Fortney describes a deadly romance with Walter McCaffree who was killed Sunday morning near Waverly Junction. She says she begged him to leave her, that he threatened to kill himself if she refused, and she criticizes her husband Frank Fortney as a coward. State agents question Fortney as a murder suspect.

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Laura Walter McCaffree Waverly Junction Detter Frank Fortney Walter Awas Nea |Coe Davenport Aurea Acker Fortney McCaffree Waverly Wrank Krank Atate Frank
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Early Ruling Sweeney Rehearing Seen by Prosecutor

The state Supreme Court heard oral arguments on the motion for rehearing in State against D A Sweeney. Defense attorney A B Lovejoy and County Attorney F W Edwards presented as four justices who originally affirmed Sweeney's second degree murder conviction listened to the rehearing arguments. No decision was announced on the petition for rehearing.

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Supreme Court D. A. Sweeney A. B. Lovejoy F. W. Edwards Edwards Sweeney Bertha Munger
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