NEW YORK: Trouble

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But mostly they heard of Fritz Kuhn's love letters and Fritz Kuhn's search for sympathy. Pretty, brown-haired, brown-eyed Mrs. Virginia Overshiner Patterson Stark Seeger Gilbert Kahn Cogswell, "The Georgia Peach," 32 years old, seven times wed, winner of an Atlantic City beauty contest, was one from whom Fritz Kuhn sought sympathy. But next came honey-haired, plump Mrs. Florence Camp, and the climax of Fritz Kuhn's courtroom distress.

He denied that he had asked Mrs. Camp to marry him, said that Mrs. Camp was too much of a lady to take a proposal after a few days' acquaintance. Mr. McCarthy whipped out a Kuhn letter: "Florence : I am terrible in love with you. I beg you to become my beloved wife. I will always be true to you. . . ."

While Fritz Kuhn's heavy features were screwed up in an agony of embarrassment, the impassioned letters were read:

"Did you see your other boy friend witch bothers you so much—see darling your understand, if I want to know this things because you can imagine how much I am interested."

"You're my soul—my wife and my everything—I thank you so much for your letters. . . . again I thank you for everything—I kiss you until you tell me to stop —I kiss your hands and everything. . . . Right after I got finished talking to you I went out and got a map of the U. S. A. and found Reno. I really did not know where it was located—I heard about it.... I found it was very far from Los Angeles and I think—my beloved darling—that you should not go there alone."

On & on ran the torrential expressions of Fritz Kuhn's feelings. Wrote the Daily News's owlish reporters: "[The letters] were the masterly efforts of the man of action who—although in the throes of passion—remembers that life is real and life is earnest. In one passage he wrote Florence that he loved her with his whole soul and body and was about to have his teeth fixed."

The reading over, Fritz Kuhn reconsidered his estimate of Mrs. Camp. "I considered Mrs. Camp a very fine lady," said he, "but now I find she is not."

While patient Mrs. Kuhn said she would stay by her husband, while the trial nodded on again, it was plain for all to see that loving the Führer in a foreign land had caused Fritz Kuhn a lot of trouble. Introduced as evidence were two notes by Mayor LaGuardia and Tom Dewey, written before Kuhn's arrest:

LaGuardia: "Dear Tom: You can have him."

Dewey: "I don't want him either. I guess the ashcan is the best place for him."