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Married. Dorothy Patterson Judah, 40, daughter of the late John Patterson, founder of National Cash Register Co., divorced wife of onetime U. S. Ambassador to Cuba Noble Brandon Judah; and Socialite Randolph Santini of Manhattan; in Manhattan...
Thus for the third time in three years did an Alabama jury last week decide the fate of 20-year-old Negro Heywood Patterson. Accused with eight other Negroes of raping two white girls in a freight car near Scottsboro, he had twice been saved from the electric chair by judicial appeal. The first conviction was set aside by the U. S. Supreme Court last year and a new trial ordered (TIME, Nov. 14, 1932). The second was voided by the judge at the second trial who claimed the verdict was unwarranted by the evidence. This time at Decatur Patterson...
...dress and a peaked black hat climbed to the witness stand, chewing snuff. Victoria Price, twice-married mill-hand, onetime vagrant, told in less than ten minutes and in language so foul that newshawks could not print it, the story of her alleged rape. Then she pointed to Heywood Patterson as one of her assailants...
...gondola car, was not there to corroborate Victoria Price's story. In a New York City hospital, she had already reversed her testimony months before, claiming the rape story was a frame-up. But Orville Gilley, hobo "poet" who had been in the gondola, did corroborate it. Defendant Patterson, nervous and blinking, took the stand to swear that he had never seen any girls on the train. "They told us in jail if we didn't say we done it, they'd kill us,'' he blurted. "They told us they'd give...
Glaring frequently at Lawyer Leibowitz and intoning his words, Judge Callahan spent nearly two hours explaining to the jury how they could find Patterson guilty. When he had finished Lawyer Leibowitz and Attorney General Thomas Knight, the prosecutor, went up to the bench, whispered hastily in his ear. "Oh yes," said the judge, facing the jury. "I overlooked one thing. If you are not satisfied beyond all reasonable doubt that the defendant is guilty as charged, then he ought to be acquitted." Twenty-six hours later came a resounding thump on the brown wooden jury room door. The bailiff...