Murder of a Journalist: The True Story of the Death of Donald Ring Mellett (True Crime History)
Автор:Thomas K. Crowl Год: 2010 Издание: [не указанo] Страниц: 210 ISBN: 1606350021 This book features private detectives, crooked cops, gangsters, and bootleggers. The July 1926 murder of the editor of the Canton, Ohio, "Daily News", Don R. Mellett, was one of the most publicized crimes in the 1920s. For less than a year, Mellett was the editor of the "Daily News", owned by former Ohio governor and Democrat presidential candidate James Cox. Having promised Cox he would turn the unprofitable News into a success, Mellett combined personal conviction with marketing savvy and in 1925 embarked on an antivice, anticorruption editorial campaign. The following year, the "Daily News" and Mellett, posthumously, received the Pulitzer Prize for his columns. His editorials were often aimed at the Canton police chief, S. A. Lengel, making the News law and order crusade personal. An unholy alliance of bootleggers and corrupt police, angered at Mellett's interference with business as usual, hired an ex-con from Pennsylvania, Patrick McDermott, to attack and scare the editor. When...
