Chief Askew's Diary: June 17, 1930

The 'Boys' nab a drunk driver; FDR writes editorial in crime pulp magazine

Chief Askew wrote in his diary that “the Boys got one man last night driving car while Intoxicated, but he made Bond later.” Otherwise, all was quiet, and Coweta County, Georgia got another “very good rain” during the night.

The crime world was much more exciting (and lurid) in the magazines published by body builder, health nut and all-around eccentric Bernarr Macfadden, including True Crime Mysteries. The July 1930 issue was touted today in a large ad in the Atlanta Journal, with teasers about the contents. One story was about an escape from a Georgia chain gang. Another was an editorial by part-time Georgia resident Franklin Delano Roosevelt, at that time the governor of New York. But the lead was about a notorious double murder in 1925 in Humboldt County, California.

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The cover of the July 1930 True Crime Mysteries issue was accessed via archive.org.