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Case of the Missing Motive
Cook, Fred J. | September 29, 1956 issue

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The article focuses on acid throwing incident on Hearst labor columnist Victor Riesel. The usual criminal mystery be comes less mysterious with the arrests that are supposed to mark its solution, but the sensational acid-blinding of Victor Riesel flouts this rule. The more that is known about it, the more mysterious it grows. He had begun his career on the right-wing Socialist weekly, the New Leader, exposing Communists. When he switched to the labor field, he attacked crime and rackets with fiery verve. U. S. Attorney Paul W. Williams had launched a sweeping probe of New York rackets. When Riesel was attacked, Williams instantly saw the event as a "dastardly" attempt by the underworld to flout the authority of his office.

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RACKETEERING; ACIDS; JOURNALISTS; LABOR; MYSTERY; COMMUNISTS; ATTORNEYS general; UNITED States
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