# Washington Daily News, 15 November 1929, page 8: news digest entry on the Lonardo acquittal

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A one-sentence entry under 'Justice' in a daily news digest: the widow of the murdered 'Big Joe' Lonardo, once bootleg sugar king of Cleveland, was acquitted of killing 'Black Jack' Todaro.

Page 8 of the Washington Daily News for Friday, 15 November 1929, headed "The Day's News in Six Minutes," a digest of one-paragraph entries under topic headings. Under "Justice" is a single sentence: the widow of the murdered "Big Joe" Lonardo, once bootleg sugar king of Cleveland, was acquitted of killing "Black Jack" Todaro at Cleveland.

The entry has no headline of its own; the headline field above gives the page heading and the topic. It is filed as a second paper reporting the same verdict as the [Indianapolis Times of the same day](/clippings/clip-indianapolis-times-1929-11-15-p6/), which gives more detail.

## Sources

- Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn82016181/1929-11-15/ed-1/?sp=8
- Library of Congress OCR text of this page: https://tile.loc.gov/text-services/word-coordinates-service?segment=/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_hine_ver02/data/sn82016181/00529046066/1929111501/0306.xml&format=alto_xml&full_text=1