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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
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#1 The East Side neighborhood of Beekman Place, just north of the United Nations, has not always been home to the rich. It was originally a stretch of stolid middle-class row houses, but it was redeveloped in the 1920s when it became a popular destination for wealthy artists, writers, and theatrical celebrities.
#2 The area around Beekman Place was a mix of luxury towers and grimy tenements in the early 1930s. In 1935, the socially conscious crime drama Dead End opened on Broadway, and its setting was inspired by the area.

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Publié par	Everest Media LLC
Date de parution	31 juillet 2022
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9798822560024
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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#1

The East Side neighborhood of Beekman Place, just north of the United Nations, has not always been home to the rich. It was originally a stretch of stolid middle-class row houses, but it was redeveloped in the 1920s when it became a popular destination for wealthy artists, writers, and theatrical celebrities.

#2

The area around Beekman Place was a mix of luxury towers and grimy tenements in the early 1930s. In 1935, the socially conscious crime drama Dead End opened on Broadway, and its setting was inspired by the area.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

The murder of Vera Stretz, which was headline news for weeks, was just one of many shocking homicides that took place in November 1935. The case of Vera Stretz, by contrast, was headline news for weeks.

#2

Vera Stretz, the woman who had killed Gebhardt, was calm and composed as she was brought to the police station. She refused to discuss the murder, and insisted on speaking to a lawyer.

#3

The Gebhardt murder was a perfect example of a love killing. Vera had gone to work for her lover, Fritz Gebhardt, at his import firm, Frank von Knoop Co. She had planned not only the murder of her lover, but also her own suicide.

#4

The tabloids had a field day with the story of the demure Skyscraper Slayer and her philandering Nazi Loverboy. Vera had known about Gebhardt’s wife all along, and new theories about her motives emerged.

#5

Sam Leibowitz was a criminal defense lawyer who specialized in defending petty crooks and lowlifes. He was extremely good at what he did, and was often called upon to defend gangsters.

#6

Leibowitz was a consummate performer who could elicit laughter, tears, or heart-swelling sympathy from a jury. He was far more than a showman, though, and claimed that success was due to preparation rather than courtroom legerdemain.

#7

Leibowitz was hired to represent the Scottsboro Boys, nine African-American teenagers who were accused of gang-raping two white women on a freight train. He won their case in the Supreme Court, and continued to represent high-profile criminals.

#8

The trial was the most talked-about event in New York that week. When it finally began on Friday, March 20, 1936, it was the hottest show in town. Leibowitz’s strategy was clear: he would argue that Vera had killed Gebhardt to protect herself from an unnatural assault.

#9

The trial’s final witness was Vera Stretz, who testified about her passionate love affair with the German financier. She told how he had been phoning her regularly, and how she had been swept off her feet by him.

#10

Vera was unashamed of her behavior, as one of her many love letters made clear. She loved Gebhardt intensely, and could not help yielding to him.

#11

Following a business trip to Boston in June 1935, Fritz presented Vera with the aquamarine ring. She assumed they were now formally engaged. However, he wanted their relationship to remain as it was, with Vera as his mistress.

#12

Vera’s testimony was so graphic that it shocked the courtroom, and the newspapers of the time could only hint at the nature of Gebhardt’s request. He had attempted to force her to perform fellatio.

#13

The jury took just three hours to reach a verdict in the Stretz case. They found Vera not guilty, and when the Lindbergh baby kidnapper, Bruno Richard Hauptmann, was led to the chair in the New Jersey State Prison, the front page of the next morning’s New York Daily News read: BRUNO DEAD. VERA FREE.

#14

The Mirror reported that Vera planned to write a prison novel based on her experiences in the Women’s House of Detention.