Mrs. Carrick's Rouge And Whiskers
True Crime Historian
Richard O Jones
4.4 • 729 Ratings
🗓️ 21 June 2024
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Episode 234 is not only a murder mystery, but it also explores the history of attitudes regarding alternative lifestyles. Now that we’re living in an age where gender is a fluid thing, it’s interesting to hear how the police and the press respond when the main suspect doesn’t quite fit into the sexual norms of nearly a century past.
Culled from the historic pages of the Chicago Tribune and other newspapers of the era.
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| 0:00.0 | Popular.com |
| 0:03.0 | Miss Clara Tessmer, 20 years old, a member of the graduating class at Northwestern University, was awakened by her mother's screams and rushed into the alley to find her father lying on the ground |
| 0:23.3 | with a bullet hole drilled through his forehead. |
| 0:27.5 | Tesmer and his wife Anna had driven to the south side to visit his sister and were returning |
| 0:32.8 | when the holdup and murder occurred. |
| 0:35.7 | Mrs. Tesma remained in the car while her husband drove up the alley to the |
| 0:39.4 | garage, entering from Ardmore Avenue at the south end of the block. According to Mrs. Tesmer's |
| 0:45.6 | version of the affair, her husband had alighted from the car, opened the garage doors, and climbed |
| 0:51.2 | back in beside her on the front seat, a slender girl bandit of the slinker type, |
| 0:57.3 | wearing a brown sports sweater and a flappy picture hat appeared from the shadows and leveled a |
| 1:03.2 | revolver at him. Get out, the girl commanded. Keep still, we want your minding. As Tesmer stepped out of the |
| 1:10.5 | machine, a man followed his girl |
| 1:12.4 | companion from the shadows and also covered the insurance man with a revolver. The girl then switched |
| 1:18.9 | her weapon toward Mrs. Tesmer. The man went through Tesmer's pockets and obtained a small amount |
| 1:24.4 | of currency, how much the police were unable to determine. Mrs. Tesmer declared he had only a small amount of currency, how much the police were unable to determine. |
| 1:28.3 | Mrs. Tesmer declared he had only a small amount with him. |
| 1:32.3 | In the meantime, the girl had snatched from Mrs. Tesmer her jewel-clasped handbag |
| 1:37.3 | containing $5.50. |
| 1:40.3 | The girl ordered, give me your rings. |
| 1:43.3 | Mrs. Tesmer pleaded, I have only my wedding ring. |
| 1:47.0 | Please, oh, please permit me to keep that. You can have everything else I've got, but don't shoot. |
| 1:52.6 | Mrs. Tesmer was becoming more and more excited, and she began to weep hysterically as the male |
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