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When the files were gone, the papers remained. Richard Battin, "Killer in the Rain," News-Sentinel, 5 February 1994 — read in full. Fort Wayne's police case files for the 1940s murders were lost or destroyed; Battin rebuilt the case from the two dailies' own 1940s files, and his reconstruction is therefore not a retelling but the surviving record, treated here with the weight of one. His "The straight story on 'Machine Gun' Kelly," News-Sentinel, 9 August 1990, does the same work for the Broadway robbery — including checking the later claim that Robert Christen was executed in Arizona against Arizona and Colorado records, and finding none; that claim is carried in our file only as an explicitly unproven claim, because its appearance in print is part of the case's history. Andrew Jarosh's name-by-name reconstruction of the 1913 flood dead for the News-Sentinel stands the same way: six dead in the contemporary count, seven in Jarosh's, and this record prints both counts with the composition of each.
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