Before he became FDR’s fiercest defender of the New Deal, Attorney General Homer Cummings was best known as the Mayor of Stamford responsible for acquiring the land to be called Halloween Park and as a Fairfield County Prosecutor with a strong sense of justice.  His most famous case found a vagrant former soldier innocent of the murder of a popular Bridgeport parish priest despite compelling evidence including a confession and a .32 revolver with a fired cartridge in the suspect’s possession. ...