A Dead Certainty Kenneth Mc Cormick
Big Story · November 15, 1950 · 25 min · 3,742 words
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The big story. You think? You think? Because I'm an old man. I can't hold my own. Well, I'll show you. Don't hit me there again. I... No, no, don't! Detroit, Michigan.
From the pages of the Free Press, the story of a sneaking suspicion that became a dead certainty. Detroit, Michigan. The story is it actually happened. Kenneth McCombick's story. As he lived it. You've seen it before, Ken McCormick, of the Detroit Free Press.
In 20 years of reporting, you've seen it lots of times. But somehow, you've never gotten used to the look of murder. Especially violent murder. The shattered glass, the shambles of tables and chairs, the twisted body, always the sand.
And now, on this Sunday morning in the suburb of Highland Park, I just stand in the living room of a shabby bungalow. Now you're seeing it all over again. What a mess. Mind showing me your press card.
Oh, here you are. Detroit Free Press, name is Ken McCormick. I'm Captain Walsh, talent partner, Texas viewer. How you do? Cormick, huh? You're the guy that got the Pulitzer Prize a few years ago? Oh, you have a good memory, Captain.
What's the dead man's name? Bradway, Georgia. Bradway, age 69, work in the candy factory. Looks like he took quite a beating. What did I have? Rookin ribs probably punctured his lungs death occurred around midnight last night reported early this morning anything else you want to know?
Well, I'd like to get an interview with his family. You can't he hasn't got any one of the neighbors found his body I see what do you think the motive was robbery? What else look at the joint?
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