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1 story matching contradict
Scanning errors are common in old newsprint. Also try:contradictori, uncontradict, contract, contradistinct, contra, contrapt
- A Confession Withdrawn, a Wife Dead: The Smokalem Mystery
Jack Smokalem pleads guilty, then takes it back, as his daughter and coroners give conflicting accounts of his wife's violent death.