Examines the case that inspired a pop culture phenomenon In 1924 Beulah Annan was arrested and incarcerated for killing her lover, Harry Kalsted. Six weeks later, a jury acquitted her of murder. Inspired by the sordid event, trial, and acquittal, Maurine Watkins, a reporter at the time, wrote the play Chicago.
Examines the case that inspired a pop culture phenomenon In 1924 Beulah Annan was arrested and incarcerated for killing her lover, Harry Kalsted. Six weeks later, a jury acquitted her of murder. Inspired by the sordid event, trial, and acquittal, Maurine Watkins, a reporter at the time, wrote the play Chicago.
Charles H. Cosgrove is emeritus professor of early Christian literature at Garrett Seminary in Evanston, Illinois. He is the author of numerous books, most recently Fortune and Faith in Old Chicago: A Dual Biography of Mayor Augustus Garrett and Seminary Founder Eliza Clark Garrett, and Music at Social Meals in Greek and Roman Antiquity. A lifelong native of the Chicago area, he is an aficionado of the city’s history and makes occasional appearances in the area’s music venues as a jazz trombonist.
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List of Figures Preface A Note on Names Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Beulah Mae 2. A Shooting 3. An Alleged Confession 4. Police and Prosecutors Shape the Narrative 5. Inquest into the Death of Harry Kalsted 6. Finding Beulah behind the Press’s Tropes and Paraquotations 7. Maurine Watkins’s News with Wit 8. Back in Owensboro 9. Popular Opinions about Jury Bias in Favor of Women 10. Beulah Annan Goes to Trial 11. Watkins’s Tendentious Reporting on the Annan Trial 12. A Play Is Born 13. The Truth about Chicago’s Criminal Justice System 14. The Short Unhappy Finish to Beulah’s Life 15. Beulah Remembered as Roxie 16. Bob Fosse’s Musical Remake of Maurine Watkins’s Play Postscript Abbreviations Notes Bibliography
List of Figures Preface A Note on Names Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Beulah Mae 2. A Shooting 3. An Alleged Confession 4. Police and Prosecutors Shape the Narrative 5. Inquest into the Death of Harry Kalsted 6. Finding Beulah behind the Press’s Tropes and Paraquotations 7. Maurine Watkins’s News with Wit 8. Back in Owensboro 9. Popular Opinions about Jury Bias in Favor of Women 10. Beulah Annan Goes to Trial 11. Watkins’s Tendentious Reporting on the Annan Trial 12. A Play Is Born 13. The Truth about Chicago’s Criminal Justice System 14. The Short Unhappy Finish to Beulah’s Life 15. Beulah Remembered as Roxie 16. Bob Fosse’s Musical Remake of Maurine Watkins’s Play Postscript Abbreviations Notes Bibliography
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