Though Murder Has No Tongue (40 page)

There are two undated applications from Francis Sweeney to the Sandusky Soldiers' and Sailors' Home. One of them lists the following disabilities: “Major cardiac-mitral insufficiency, multiple herniated-intervertebral-spinal discs.”

There is also an undated page that begins with “Local Physicians' Diagnosis.” It lists mitral insufficiency and multiple herniated discs (spinal column). “Life and its stresses have contributed to the total toll, superimposed upon these conditions. No VD (venereal disease), No exanthemata, no TB (tuberculosis), ambulatory.” This section is signed by Frank E. Sweeney, M.D. Residence given as 2957 East 65th St. Cleveland, OH. The middle of the page has a section titled Admission Board. The final section of the form is titled Ohio Soldiers and Sailors Home Surgeon's Report. Diagnosis: Physical and Mental “[illegible] Disability; obesity; N.O.A.; [illegible] valvular heart disease, mitral insufficiency; oh. Arthritis.” It is signed by a physician and John W. Parks, Commandant.

B
IBLIOGRAPHY

M
ANUSCRIPT AND
A
RCHIVAL
S
OURCES

American Civil Liberties Union. Files on Frank Dolezal's arrest, including various correspondence and newspaper clippings. Volumes 2116 and 2136.

Cleveland Police Historical Society Museum

Cowles, David L. Taped interview conducted by Lieutenant Tom Brown and Florence Schwein. September 6, 1983. Typescript of interview.

Limber, James M. A small collection of photographs related to Kingsbury Run.

Coroner's Office, Cuyahoga County

Gerber, Dr. Samuel R. Coroner's Verdict and Testimony on the Body of Frank Dolezal. August 24, 1939. Case no. 49869.

“Transcript of Proceedings Commencing at 10:30
A.M
., Saturday, August 26, 1939, before Hon. Samuel R. Gerber, County Coroner, in Relation to Death of Frank Dolezal at County Jail, August 24, 1939.” Includes depositions taken by Cleveland Police Department's Bureau of Criminal Investigation from individuals in the sheriff's office and others directly involved with Frank Dolezal's death.

Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas. Records.

Dolezal, Charles. Suits against Sheriff Martin L. O'Donnell and others. Case nos. 496329 and 496330.

Sweeney, Mary Josephine, née Sokol. Petitions for separation and divorce from Dr. Francis Edward Sweeney. Case nos. 413785 and 445238.

Cuyahoga County Probate Court. Records. Actions against Dr. Francis Edward Sweeney. Civil Appearance Docket no. 250. Case no. 213871.

Federal Bureau of Investigation. Records.

Sweeney, Dr. Francis Edward. File nos. 62–100340–1, September 21, 1953, and 62–100340–2, October 13, 1953.

Sweeney, Martin L. File no. 100–32378–1, July 11, 1944.

Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors' Home, Sandusky Ohio. Applications for Admission and other documents relevant to Dr. Francis Edward Sweeney's residency at the facility.

Personal Papers

Fransen, John (Cleveland Police Force, retired). Dossier on Dr. Francis Edward Sweeney. 1991–1992. Cleveland Police Department.

Lyons, Lawrence J. (Pat). Private papers held by his daughter, Carol Fitzgerald, including investigation notes, unpublished manuscripts on Kingsbury Run murders and his role as investigator, and various pieces of official and personal correspondence.

Merylo, Peter. Private papers held by his daughter Marjorie Merylo Dentz, including his unpublished memoirs, an unpublished manuscript cowritten with Frank Otwell, daily police reports, police reports from other officers, pieces of official and personal correspondence, tip letters, newspaper and magazine articles, various clippings, and photographs.

N
EWSPAPERS AND
O
THER
P
UBLISHED
M
ATERIAL

Cleveland News.
July–August 1939.

Cleveland Plain Dealer.
July–August 1939.

Cleveland Press.
July–August 1939.

McGunagle, Fred. “Postcard from the Mad Butcher.”
Cleveland Edition
(March 9, 1989): 1+.

I
NDEX

Albrecht, Brian,
136

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), on Dolezal case,
24
,
46
,
48

Anatomists, at Pearce's “torso clinic,”
9

Andrassy, Edward (victim no. 1),
5
,
145
; activities before death,
21
,
35
; Dolezal's possible acquaintance with,
17
,
22–23
,
31
,
35
; effects of ordeal on family,
71–73
; as only victim with rope burns,
137
,
156
; problems with Dolezal as killer of,
53–54
; Sweeney's possible acquaintance with,
119
,
156–57

Andrassy, Joseph,
35

Antisocial personality disorder,
185–86

Archaki, Al (Alec or Alex),
157

Arraignment, Dolezal's,
44–45
,
49
; Brown not available to testify at,
51
; void for lack of attorney,
49
,
50

Arrest, Dolezal's,
17
,
23
; media circus over,
24
,
30
,
52
,
55–56
; timing of,
24
,
27
; torso murders stopping after,
63

Attorneys, for Dolezal,
46
,
48
,
50

Autopsy: confirming Dolezal's injuries,
61–62
,
84
; of Dolezal,
61
,
99
,
167
; Gerber calling Dolezal's unnecessary,
58
,
61
; of victim no. 11,
80–81

Badal, James Jessen,
72
,
181

Balraj, Elizabeth,
174

Bardsley, Marilyn,
129
,
142
,
154

Beaufait, Doris O'Donnell,
168–69

Beaufait, Howard,
37–38
,
168–69

Beck, Paul,
42
,
47
,
55

Black Dahlia murder, torso murders not linked to,
124
,
136–37

Blood: amount expected in killing place,
49–50
; in Dolezal's apartment,
30–31
,
35
,
37
,
48–49
; found on knives borrowed by mysterious “Frank,”
21

Bodies, of Mad Butcher victims: already embalmed,
81
,
158
; arrangement of,
5–6
,
54
,
161
; disposal of, in Dolezal's confessions,
32–34
,
42
,
45
; locations of,
4–6
,
10
,
120
; photos of,
70
; transportation of,
54
,
161
.
See also
Victims

Brewer, Nelson J.,
156

Brodowski, Dave,
97
,
99

Brown, Harry S.,
43
,
51–52
,
89
,
149–50
; interrogating Dolezal,
32
,
84–85

Brown, Tom,
81
,
134
,
139–40

Buebe, Winifred Merylo,
71
,
165

Bugliosi, Vincent,
126

Bumgarner, Ray Q.,
157

Burns, Archie,
87–88
,
104–5

Burton, Harold,
8
; collaborating with Sweeney for VA hospital,
144
,
153
;
Dolezal case and,
56
,
146
; on Ness heading murder case,
10
,
15
; politics and administration of,
7
,
115
,
146
; in theories of cover-up of torso murderer,
127–28

Burtt, Earl,
88–89

Burtt, Willard,
88–89

Byers, Edgar S.,
49

The Cases That Haunt Us
(Douglas),
126

Chamberlin, Robert,
135

Charges, against Dolezal: held without,
43
,
46
; only manslaughter of Polillo,
51
,
165

Chase, Russell W.,
46

Chazin, B. J.,
122–23

City Hospital, Sweeney in,
155–56
,
186

Civil liberties/due process: Dolezal's violated,
42–43
,
45–46
,
50
,
79
,
164
; interrogation of Sweeney violating,
141
; right to have attorney at arraignment,
48–49
,
50

Cleveland,
116
; crime in,
7
,
14–15
; effects of Depression in,
15
,
23
,
118
; negative publicity from murders,
14–15
; Ness leaving,
161
,
166
; politics in,
6
,
115

Cleveland Crime Commission,
60
,
146–47

Cleveland Hotel, secret interrogations of Sweeney in,
140–42
,
144
,
154
,
158–59

Cleveland Police Historical Society Museum,
69–70
,
137–39

Condon, George,
135–36

Confessions,
Dolezal's,
24
,
42
,
48
; about Polillo,
32–36
; discrepancies in,
35–36
,
165
; legitimacy of,
43
,
52
; Merylo on,
45
,
165
; obtained by beatings,
47–48
,
94
,
128
,
150
; retracting,
47

Conspiracy theories: about torso murders,
127–29
,
150–54
; attractiveness of,
126
; death of Sweeney's brother in,
171–72
; difficulty keeping secret,
126
; grains of truth in,
128–29

Cornwell, Patricia,
97
,
107–8

Coroner's office,
39
,
81
; documentation of Dolezal's death in,
60
,
74
,
75–77
,
99
; Gerber representing,
79
,
166
.
See also
Gerber, Samuel R.
;
Pearce, A. J.

Cowles, David,
62
,
81
,
129
,
139
,
158
; on Ness giving Sweeney lie detector test,
140–42
; secrecy around suspicions about Sweeney,
154
,
169
; on Sweeney as Ness's secret suspect,
132–35
,
140
,
144

Crawford, Hugh,
59
,
85
; on cutting Dolezal's body down,
104–5
,
148
; in events around Dolezal's death,
87–89
,
104

Crime, in Cleveland,
7–8
,
14–15

Crime scenes, of torso murders,
5

Crumpton, Adam,
175

Cullitan, Frank T.,
147

Cuyahoga County,
6–7
,
79

Cuyahoga County Commissioners, sheriff's department
vs.,
149–50

Cuyahoga County Jail,
4
,
83
,
88–89
,
146
,
150

Cuyahoga River, bodies dumped in,
6

Danaceau, Saul S.,
90–94

Day, Frank S.,
50

Death, Dolezal's,
60
;
brother's lawsuit for not preventing suicide,
148–49
; death of Sweeney's brother soon after,
171–72
; difficulties in reinterpreting,
102
,
108
,
168
; dilemma over handling of discrepancies in suicide story,
95–96
,
168
; discrepancies in cutting body down,
88
,
91
,
104–5
,
148
; discrepancies in suicide story,
57–60
,
103–4
; discrepancies in time of,
83–84
,
89
,
148
; events leading to,
83
; forensic experts investigating,
96–97
,
99–108
; Gerber's conclusions about,
63
,
166–67
,
174
; inquest into,
62–63
,
87–89
,
103–4
; marks inconsistent with explanation,
75–76
,
104
,
108
,
148
; method of,
77
,
77–78
,
80,
87
,
100
; as murder in conspiracy theories,
127–28
,
151–54
; as murder
vs.
suicide,
108
,
147–51
; mysterious twine in,
77–78
,
91
,
105–6
,
148
; officials' response to reinvestigation of suicide,
79
,
147–48
; photos of corpse,
60
,
74
,
91
,
168
; police depositions taken at time of,
3
,
60
,
81–82
; reactions to,
60–61
,
165–66
; ruled suicide,
57
,
63
,
166–67
; as suicide,
57–58
,
60
;
suicide method questioned,
76–77
,
77–78
,
91
,
102
,
108
; suicide questioned,
58–59
; suicide reexamined through photos of corpse,
74–76
,
76
;
suicide verdict left unchallenged,
79
,
174
; suspicions of murder in,
63–64
,
67
,
95–96
,
170
; time of hanging and dying,
90–91
,
104
,
148
; timing of,
147–48
,
150
,
152