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Included in the list of crimes committed by those who call on the Defenders are murder, rape, larceny, robbery, burglary, drunkenness, vagrancy, assault and battery, forgery, and arson. Thus the students get a wide range of training...
Scottsboro Boy Haywood Patterson, now 37, was a free man again last week. Michigan Governor G. Mennen Williams refused to extradite him to Alabama, where Patterson and eight other Negroes were arrested 17 years ago on a flimsy rape charge. After that, a federal judge dismissed a fugitive warrant against him for breaking out of an Alabama jail...
...partly a story most of the U.S. dimly remembered-of the trial which sentenced eight of the Negroes to death for rape that probably never was committed, the subsequent court battles which saved their lives and generally opened Southern juries to the Negro. The rest was a gamy tale of Patterson's life in Alabama's Atmore and Kilby prisons. He told of intrigues, knifings, murders, fornications and homosexual acts in prison, and Patterson freely named guards and officials to whom he attributed cruel neglect and brutality...
...Maria Goretti, daughter of poor sharecroppers on the Pontine marshes south of Rome, was eleven years old. When 19-year-old Alessandro Serenelli tried to rape her, she resisted him, even though he stabbed her to death. As she lay dying, Maria forgave Serenelli and promised to pray for him in heaven. Serenelli served 27 penitent years in prison for his crime and is now a handyman and pig-tender at a Capuchin monastery. There last week he spent the day of Maria's canonization "in prayer more intense than ever...
Most Bee staffers disagree. Growled one copyreader: "I get my Liebestraum all mixed up with my rape. And on a deadline, it's murder." Five times in the past year, unrelaxed, unidentified staffers have stopped the Muzak. Last week a chilling notice was tacked on the bulletin board: "Anyone turning it [the music] off again will be fired immediately. [Signed] Myron Depew, City Editor." Since newspaper jobs are hard to get, Muzak will now probably play on unmolested...