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Author Woodbury, Marda

Title Stopping the presses : the murder of Walter W. Liggett / Marda Liggett Woodbury
Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©1998

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 271 pages) : illustrations
Contents pt. 1. Walter's story -- ch. 1. Prairie activist -- ch. 2. Roaring twenties -- ch. 3. Freelance writer, freelance radical -- ch. 4. Meanwhile, in Minnesota -- ch. 5. Return to Minnesota -- ch. 6. Break with Olson -- ch. 7. Move to danger -- ch. 8. Framed and beaten up -- ch. 9. On trial -- pt. 2. Death in an alley -- ch. 10. Crescendo of horror -- ch. 11. Last day : family recollections -- ch. 12. Cops arrive, a little late, with their notebooks -- ch. 13. Word goes out -- ch. 14. No time to mourn -- pt. 3. Edith's story -- ch. 15. Aftermath of murder -- ch. 16. Hard times -- ch. 17. Kid Cann beats the rap -- ch. 18. Loose ends -- ch. 19. Home to Brooklyn
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-255) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Liggett, Walter W. (Walter William), 1886-1935.
SUBJECT Liggett, Walter W. (Walter William), 1886-1935 fast
Subject Murder -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis -- Case studies
Murder victims -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis -- Biography
Journalists -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis -- Biography
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
Journalists
Murder
Murder victims
Minnesota -- Minneapolis
Genre/Form Biographies
Case studies
Form Electronic book
LC no. 97051443
ISBN 9780816688005
0816688001
0816629293
9780816629299