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Nat Gertler, only mildly scarier
@nat.gertler.com

Just a quick note that if you ever saw Chicago in any of its forms, this is the period and the sort of coverage that inspired it... although not this specific case (it was based, rather, on two 1924 cases.)

newspapers.comPaul Eberle murderClipping found in The Dispatch published in Moline, Illinois on 1/6/1923. Paul Eberle murder
Nat Gertler, only mildly scarier@nat.gertler.com

This is how complete the "identify a woman by her husband's name" thing was: this woman is called only by the name of a man who is no longer a husband, on account of her being a widow, on account of her shooting him to death, on account of abuse so bad that even a 1923 male jury saw it as justified.

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Michael Dobkins
@michaeldobkins.bsky.social

I never cease to marvel at the once common “husband’s name for the Mrs.” and “let’s include the home address of the victim or yet-to-be charged suspect” practices in old newspapers when diving into online newspaper archive research.