BEST RUNE,1955 TRUE FACT DETECTIVE JUNE25cANC A SKYE PUBLICATION Case! THE HOT-BLOODED BLONDE AND THE COLD-BLOODED KILLER! Expose! GIRL ALCOHOLICS!

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Her mony promises, even her own self-disgust, proved worthless. He knew she’d brecik out o hidden bottle the moment he left.

Despite c’lp’s firm grip, womon drunk reels up sloirs of Son Pedro (Col’) police stotion. Held in proleclive custody, she will be sofe from sex moniqcs’

HAT the gods-probably they our jails and providing work for shorrld be called the demons- professional hangman. of crime have countless hand- You will remember the trial of maidens everyone knows. Ruth Snyder and Judd Gray for the Dope, sexual lusts, all viciousness sashweight slaying of Albert Snyder. that turns a man into a beast PlaYs At one time the courtroom was its part. And not the least of erime’s thrown into a furor when, after accomplices is alcohol. Gray had testified to the amount of For various reasons, King Alcohol whiskey consumed by him and his has never received the billing he paramour as a prelude to their foul deserves. Overindulgence in liquor deed, a famous theatrical star in the is not accepted by our courts as an audience exclaimed in audible excuse for illega1 acts. And for that astonishment, “My God, there isn’t reason, lawyers defending criminals that much liquor in thb world!” find it useless to dwell long on the Mrs. Snyder and Gray both went fact that their clients might never to the chair as murderers motivated have been prompted to kill their by greed for Albert Snyder’s insurhusbands, murder their childre*, ance. The attorneys for the defense hold up a bank, had they remained did not neglect the part drinking sober and clear-headed. Juries are had played in the tragedy, but they not inclined to consider such facts knew it was nothing a jury would as evdn extentuating circumstances. weigh in its final estimate of the And so, it is difficult to put one’s crime. As in so many other cases finger on the precise degree to which that have ended in the execution alcoholism is responsible for filling ehamber, it merely served-‘as good l4

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rrrE rxAtetr, txutrl t): ttlrilEFa uKtNf,-trlEll f,tl.l.! background material. In the records, has never received the attention it sai.d, and had wrestled over a re- it is plain that the evil couple were deserves. volver. In the struggle, she shot hi.m. heavy drinkers. But there is un- A few years oBo, a technical Lhter she was to retract her confortunately no concrete yardstick journal devoted to the study of in- fession and claim- tliat he comavailable to indicate how much dif- ebriety investigated the cases of a mitted suicide. But an autopsy ference alcoholism really made in group of women institutionalized showed no powder burns on the dead the planning and commission of the for aleoholism. The vast majority of man’s body. And the lady’s own murder. these women had been either di- left hand, subjected to nitrate tests, On New Year’s Eve of this year, vorced or separated in the past for proved that she had sometime rea pretty blonde twenty-three-year- acts of immorality. It was almost cently fired a gun. The man had old New Hampshire mother shot and impossible to find a virgin among been killed by a chest wound. A killed her aircraft worker husband even the youngest of the unmarried bullet had broken his left foreair,r. in their trailer home, emptying five patients. There was in addition a There were five spare bullet holes bullets from a .22-caliber pistol into shocking proportion of sexual ab- in the wallhim because “we just couldn’t get normality among them. And almost The lady, faced with such formidalong.” every inrnate was listed as a liar and able contradictions, began her story The police counted the “empty a thief to boot! all over again. She said she had whiskey bottles strewn about the There was a time not too long “passed out” from drinking, and trailer, and listened intently to the ago, when both in our theatre and couldn’t remember what had hapstory of an {l-night celebration. on the screen drunkards were treat- pened! They listened, too, as neighbors de- ed as comic figures. And they could scribed the pair as “a quiet couple be funny! But, as our culture has who always got along.” They took slowly groped its way toward realdown the pathetic confession of the ity, more and more the spectre of IHE matter of husband-kilting is wife, who will have to answer for alcoholism has come to be regarded but a single phase of the rapher act of violence. The liquor will as the social problem that it really idly-worsening women-and-alcohol not stand trial, however much it ls. story. By and large, out of a false had to do with the actual prelude Like the young New Hampshire sense of gallantry, perhaps, we’ve of unstable emotions that led to the woman who chose a . festive occa- been blinding ourselves to it. murder. sion to go alcohol-crazy, there is the Take something like this, that The relationship of liquor to un- California woman who shot her hus- happens every day: bridled sex impulses is another band last Ttranksgiving night. After seven years of what seemed phase of the alcoholic problem that They’d been drinking all day, she an idyllic marriage, the Foster A1-

leoving one bor, she pouses briefly before moking her woy ln courl, murderess Ruth Snyder heord lestimony thot she wos lo lhe nexl one, iust o few doors down lhe street, deod drunk when she ond lover killed husbond. 3.

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Grim oftermoth to Storr Foithful’3 life of .liquor-filled goiety ond romonce come when body wos woshed up on beoch. I

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lens of Melrose, Massachusetts, had isn’t home, I don’t have to ask over. And I know she’Il break it come to the parting of the waYs. Of where she is. She’s down at the out as soon as I’ve gone.” course, the town-gossiPs were busY Green Rooster cocktail bar with her This is, of course, a purely hypowagging their tongues. girl friends, flirting with every Tom, thetical case as far as the names of “Whatever could have haPPened?” Dick, and Harry who comes in. The the individuals are eoncerned-but one lady whispered to another. chances are she’s even buying drinks the facts themselves are horribl-v The other came close to imPart for the men. And I can’t even guess true nevertheless. her answer in an undertone’ “Don’t what time she’ll come home*or in Writing recently in one of our tell anybody I told you, for Heaven’s what condition.” Iarger national women’s magazines, sake, but I understand it was drtnkt” The doctor nodded sympathetical- Robert V. Seii.ger, M.D., psychiatric “Oh, that miserable man! And I ly as the distraught husband paused speeialist, states that in cases where’ thought he was so nice. What’s for breath before going on. alcohol has been the cause of a broken going to happen to those two lovelY “Or, if I happen to find her horne and rnarriage, in reeent days children?” home, it’s just as bad. She’s stum- rnore and more frequently he has found So the rumor spread. And there bling around in a drunken stupor, that the wife is the responsible person, was no one to eontradict it. But it shrieking at the kids, slapping them tot the husbani! Furthermore, in a wasn’t true. frequently without any provocation. ten years’ study of cases in women’s You should have been in the PsY- Sometimes she brings some of her hospitals, he found that the number chiatrist’s offrce when Foster Allen drinking companions home with her. of patients institutionalized for aIcame in And they pick up a bottle ol two coholism rose from 6.3 percent of the “Doctor, I’m at my wits’ end-” on the way. In that case, I can al’ total roster to 17.3 per cent! And He was as close to tears as a ‘ man ways count on her abusing me at the number is constantly rising. Of could be in the presence of another the top of her lungs. I don’t know the women in our jails, more than man. “I’ve got a good job’ I make where she picked up the vocabularY two-fifths of them have landed bemore than enough monell to meet she uses on such 6qs35i6n-s. And hind bars because of drinking! all normal expenses. I’ve done mY it’s all in front of the kids. Call it progress if you like. Once best to’take care of the kids, but I “I’ve tried to be Patient, God we had the old corner saloon with have to be away all day at work. knows. And she’s always contrite its swinging doors, its spittoons, its ‘What ean I do? and siek the next morning. She chromos of John L. Sullivan in the “I come home in the evening and promises time and again that she’Il ring. In those days it was a sort the house is a mess. The kids haven’t stop. But I go to work sure that of men’s club-even though it did been fed, and theY’re running hog= she’s got a bottle hidden some- have its quiet back room u/ilh e wild all over the olace. If Helen where to help her through her hang- (Continued. an psge s7]l 17 BESI TRUE FA,CT DETECIIVE

hospital authorities are not sanguine G’R[ ALCOHOI,’CS about effectieg a cure.

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M special “family” or “Iadies” entiance. That was a room where there was no rough talk, no disorder. IDERHAPS it’s foolish to hark back f to the days of “lips that touch Uquor shall never touch mine.” Even Today, however, the back room in those days, or perhaps particuhas giv6n way to the glitterin! larly in those days, there werd cocktail lounge. Gone is the free fanatic women temperance advolunch. and gone is the massive brass cates who shrieked for Prohibition foot-;ail. Ana in its Place is the and then-poor deluded souls!-went row of high leather-uPtrolstered home and consumed vast quantities stools built to show off a Pretty of female malady potions with al-

ffi ankle and a slender waist- For there cohol contents equal to champagne! is no question that todaY women At least, they did their imbibing jam thC bars. So much so, in fact, ttrat a lone stray male who haPPeus in is often assailed bY the notion privately and, because they didn’t connect what they were doing with tippling, they were seldom lured thereby to indulgence iri stronger that he has broken into a hen PartY. And the language the girls use as stuff. they come in, in twos and threes, As far back as 1945, Dr. D. B. would make a stevedore blush. Ruthman of Chicago’s Municipal ‘Women for years have claimed Court said that one-third of that that men are jealous in their un- city’s alcoholics were femde. Leter ceasing attempt to break away fror4 reliable figures are almost imposthe double standard in sex. WhY sible to come by, but the percentage shouldn’t they apply the same rea- difference is Enown to have moved soning where drinking is concerned? 6ver heavily into the distaff columns. Most men will PromPtlY suPPlY Yrletr Depertment of Physiology the one cogent argument against ex- seyr that once’womcn begin to drink, cessive female drinking. In brief, rhcy drink frstcr thsn men, deteriorate when a man drinks he can become frrtcr, and are much more likely to go so intoxicated that he will end in erezy. ln exhaustive studies, attemptthe gutGr, an abjeet and disgusting ing to trace the problem back to its spectacle. But nothing much can source, they come uP with onlY the happen to him beyond his getting vaguest answers. The women may arrested, rolled, or run over by a be sexually maladjusted. They maY be just plain bored. A too-restrietive Pktuc thir Prririra Bcrrt, rd ttc B.tc! t[. rd Mack truck. He can’t be assaulted to Prrit no ect if tc rir itill GrD.blc o{ lov. .fut serually! parental or home situation leads all 16 rclrt. Hc hrd o toot bcceurc Lc rearcd b fcf But a woman in’lhe eame condition too often to the cocktail lounge, niritd. Vt* hc dirovatd .bod hitDtGlf-th.a rod Lt r-E Lcr qe of thc cAfa3 crctrdoar io ig thc eaEieat prey in the world for any from the marriage bed to adultery, MAIIIAGE I.ISCTUET! predalory male, any casual parserby, from bar to jail to bar to mental ,ull+^Gt clllEl6 r any sexuolly violent hoodlum who spie* hospital-and more often than not, lfif,ilAcE IiISCIIIEF b’&.odher! to crimes of savage violence. rw. dcvilirhlr iodiroca. ritt ail. Recently ‘a metropolitan clergy- Many yo-TeT who -. experlence iml full-pup 6rtooot. Gey eod trirty r rcddiru chrry3r. it rill man who-has made-a studv of iire severe periodic feryal9 distress have Lccp you g4giry tbtm3[ r soo ‘proUfu*-*.ot”-of . U”iiti””i Siit [u long known tL.1 Sp is.an exeellent of oeri:ecr. Aod trltiar of rrgs, iaUs-;fvlarJ ; *fro is now i-n the pain-killer. Ttis in itself has in vhoor! Git lst-r re vhooocr! Girt l{AR. MARruAGE MI*HIEF rr e’red- Wirtrirngiorilan Hospital in Boston. many cases led to addiction. dinS or rnaivtrrrh prtint. Trt it elrc on you tgotr* ot Her iell-to-ao p”arents p””*iii”a Some -“experts” attribute the intaodcd. trJ to pri.”. i riag” carler when presenttwo deplorable state of affairs to the wars our country las r: ?UT:3 sfre wai just sixteei- 6 tt t;6i , VLl EYrrr lridr , Hon tilo.nr4ordifie aispfiyea wrs u”a.niille. ” 1.h;i gore through in the past thirty-five fud Inor t.pn.l .id Ofhlrir same year she began to drink, no yeSls’ t- Coml for *r E Handt ol tb lrrlldord 6room Firt Xigir doubtior the feetiig oirop[ir?i””- ft is no secret that many-” I’I, a, fh frrrt Aboul l, Th. Lch.lor Diarr tion it gave her. Th”t””-u i””., too, has, come home and been shocked – .Trosnrr / Ih Wrdding Dllo she had her first tui”ii-arl’f*tiL”rf lo-fin4 the blushing bride he left , Ftotrr Smohr lo hdroom *ittt i stagehand, at -moment beNnd him transformed into a frowzy tgsspot. Youlg wom-en’ new- And amt non parotl*f lopkr when she wa-s druni<. Btt” otDlt oN Ar?rov^t a venereal disease, ;e-;;;G;e “o”ii.”i”a ly.r4a-rried, for a time at least der iSt iiiff aoesit t”ow ;hi”h ;”” prtved ,if “fraff a-aoi”n ,rr”r, ‘;.ua”””a;-i,”rii -t. of the eompanionship oJ their husbands, of obliged to postpone -the a family-, have under- (K XATTTAGE I{ISCHIEF in obia rnoocr fc lO &rr’ PilE miolEoo. If mr rhcorrblr sridcd. rrrura fur ie She continued to drink tlireil build-ing ” standably succum-bed to monotony ndlirb rduad oI oodci put. 6s her shame. D.icc.

tfre next time she had sexual re- and boredom’ Maybe tt jcb, SX evgn F lations, under the same she became ,r”m””f.-Silhra-; conditions, il;1-[1|l|-N”;-;f,; h;a il; gxa*; ior a.i”f.i”g! OUviouJtn”.n” t looked-for- an outlet in.a to find themselves being cJax.gg -tt”E payday_after the girls for only payday to stop otr yi.tlt a couple -of cocktails MAIL COUPON IODAY | –s-;-MAiNiCi Ir’rrscxtrr fr5 x. Y. I ia plria v{rp r mrv rcturn it ia lo drr before goin-g home. AII .too soon, !t tr’.5*T.t.ti36cd’ * ru “r”” iI career had Ended-r. if “” “uuaEa theyfound themselves on the merry- *ri” ,ur”o”i-to” Uiiti.t-iil”-Uotit”. i g ::.:,1*L{…t -‘t-t: af;’ *o””vlrom money go-round’ ,.trl.. i ::’ ‘ ” Wiift i : l.*o I trome,-wiUr rG got irt* men, she was sooq .. Two Rutgels ‘i that professors disclose “”‘”””‘ I outtins down a or”.f oi .,iriirti, ‘i”i:i?”, ld;; il””Iit-e”iE, -;;r: : guestioned, among– thousands or twentyeps’vear-old wome.n .thev lave the number of drinking II lill. ;- :;tltt ..{.? ..’ !! – Gr- d t61..{l-f5 tfrirre”tiia{ nrh it*nlof H- ii. fire L– — — —- ——J BEST TRUE FACT DETECTIVE 5?1

rvomen has advanced more than In a few case histories of institufifty percent in the last six ye4rs. tionalized alcoholic . wotnen, Dr. Back in the Forties, four out of Robert Seliger discusses a womart “every ten alcoholics were women. who had worked herself uP to a ‘$I5,000-a-year iob, then let liquor The percentage is rapidly drawing take it away from her, and make her to an eYen five and five and, il a co[unon drunirard. present trends continue, the women will soon outnumber the men. Ap- He mentions also another working parently, they are, by and large, wouran who felt dutybound to drink DITECT TO YOU… TAsY TENTS constitutionally unable to take it. with t”he firmls eustomers. -By tJre Genuine Rockdale Monuments If battenders are particularly bit- time she had reached her late and Markers. tdco ita.rt ter about female barflies, it isn’t thirties, she found it difficult to ‘{s or M0N- .nd uD. Satisfaction entirely on account of the lipstick keep up the pace without the false EY BACK. tYc pny lrclehi. on the glasses. A good bartender stimulus of an eye-opener or two prices. uompare our low prrces. Compare before going to the office. At luneh- WRITE FOR knows how to say n’No” to a male time t5o, Ihe soon fbund herself, ‘T*CATALOG. mOllllt XIIIHIXT OO.. D[PI. Sliil oILlGT, trL customer, and, if necessary, to give relying on a few more drinks to him the bum’s rush. On the other keep going. She eventudly found hand, the drunken woman deserving herseU in a ward with a lot of other of the same treatment must be dipsomanics. handled with kid gloves. firere’s Daily the nation’s press describes always a chiYalrous, if tipsy man the tragie path dov.rn which ihe about who feels he must defend the women alcoholics are traveling., fn “little lady”-either because she “re- German5r, a GI’s pretty yoling minds him of his mother,” or more’ American wife takes one drink too likely because he’s on the make. many and kills her husband witb a Bars that tolerate wornen clls- gun. In Tokyo, an officer’s rrrife gets tomers find fights among men drink- drtlnk on pills and liquor and stabs ers much more common than those her husband to death. And here on establishments which cater exclu- our own. shores, from Maine to sively to males. Florida, fiom Oregon to Mexico, the Policemen, too, find it easier to stories are repeated time after time, handle drunken men than women. diftering only superficially in date Yet-these are. the latest available or: name or place, but agreeing figures-according to the FBI, five fundaraentally in the one important tirnes as many women were arrested aspect common to each-the inevit: for drunkenness in 1944 as in 1932. able relationsthip between alcohol- It’s known that more recent figures, ism in uromen and their capagity for when completed, are going to show crime. a much more alarming picture. Over that twelve-year period, the num- Lofiss’ $asrrit Xozor, $3.95 ber of women arrested for drunkentrddnly trirlm ro; tr H tt, tilr *l!r! driving alone increased two hundred Tiis N rlctl! Elr it dtcirll, aoilDla tc crla€ ,ciri[ Da.rLt. Y* lrrt rri r&lml i..d tL a6tb rxtl .llFriit .rtls Drorllrd iv and twenty-six percent! IUST what, then, can we hope for ttls AG. -dr ffi, Ldt yre. rlir llf, lutlrrlira rstlro ts tiro thx I l6t. Gwli. I now? All over the c.ountry clinics, i!.a rt tl ct r m irilrtt tir rttBl rht. ivc laboratories, sociological and medil otc till rrlrl lmhs lr I lilittd liGc ical groups are studying the prob. erly. Hrrdm. ,llllin tnh htlttitfu Gn lra. fa. CoO’r. Ifit:Dr.t tmilr. ;ar.!r f,dr Lolf. Ead.htl or I|iIfERE seems to be no ready an- lem. We can only pray that somelodL.’ El..trlc lcc-…..-.-..-……..pratpotd 13,95 I swer to this ever-growing Prob- thing constructive will come out of GAYlfi D W(XID *i:LLffi li,i:’ Iem. Daily, more and more energy our hard-won education on the subject. ‘ is being expended in the direction Ttrere is, of course, Alcoholics of trying to understand what is be- Ano4ymous, doing splendid work hind it. And increasinglY greater with both sexes, an organization 6nuil6UPiltoilrt rI worrled by “Bladder Weakness” lGetttng Up efrorts are being Put f-orth everY minute to try to find some cure’ keenly aware of the tie-in between arinting and crime. Only rectintly NIchts (too lrequeEt or lrrltatln8 Kldney excre- Experienci has shown that little has it expanded its sphere of work tionsl I due to common Kldney and Bl.dd”r lrrltotlons, try CYSTEX for qulck. EratlfylEg, com- is aeomplished bY the law in some to take in the country’s prisons, inlorttDg heip. A bltlto! CYSTEX tsbtets used ln prst ?5 ycars prove safety and success. Ask your communities which Prohibits the cluding, importantly, the women’s drugglst ,or cYgrEx today uEder moDey-back guaiartee. Sec hos much betteryou feel. sale of drinks to women witliout reformatories and jails. Significantale escorts. Regulations requiring ly, it is well known that Alcoholics uromen to be se3ted at tables ten Anonymous understands those urges or more feet distant from the bar, and weaknesses in human nature heve proved equallY futile. that make for the easy-going kin- It makes even less sense to saY ship.: between drinking and prostithat the drinking woman is a woman who is unable to face realitY, that tutisn. It does not judge. It tries her weakness is the lault of parents only to help. who made things too easY (or diffi- In addition, medicd scienoe too, is colt) for her as a child. learning of the wonders that can b€ Etjoy Tfusa E drt;r’e ‘\rC Adr’.Ptdgct: Oihers theorize tJlat a loveless accomplished witJr ACE (adrenal I V*ld’s not rrrrrcladulr ilru, (Alo lroily eod lrildh 6lms) No *ld al rrarriage is a strong contributing cortical extract-horrrone), with factor-but nothing can be done to vitamin iniectionq with a new and *’ Amzinr “Try Bclorc You Boy” Pl.r V* p”i–ty'”tl- yu’vc so rLcm end lesislate love into a woman’s life! still to be fully explsred extract, *sr to 1.., tham Nir does there Seem to be anY single antabuse. t R*volutioaery “Trdc-ln” film Pho Gs ncs 6lms rr 6mthird rhc wl <u! social gloup that is peculiarly aflict- Tlre job of discoveriog the cause t Granotcd Lowcs Ptkcs: &nm Viwc!.Ptoi<lo. ed by the problem. Indeed, the aPl and eure of one of today’s worst o[ Tlrrc’ JO fi. llmm ilns ped-df alcohol for women rvould social dlseases-glrl dcoholies (and 0& rso l6mm 6lnr ieem to be totally unrelated to their its atteridant evil, erime)-is a big soeial or eeonomic’status. one. ABd it has only just beeun. lhrh Cht 8r{H, P.0. ler 5t5, tl$lh Hdrymod I, Cdit 58 BEST TRUE fACT DEIECIIVT