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...faced blonde in a blue chiffon 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...
...interrupted. At a dozen points Victoria Price contradicted the story she had told at the two earlier trials. Lawyer Leibowitz read each contradiction into the record. When he sought to establish that she had spent the night with two hoboes in a Chattanooga "jungle" day before the alleged rape, Judge Callahan cut him short to protect "her chastity...
Ruby Bates, the other girl in the 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...
...makes incarceration with Howard intolerable to Fairbanks and he impulsively escapes by cutting a few lines of barbed wire, running to a nearby German airdrome, hitting a mechanic on the chin and flying home. But even in War-time international law operates to extradite civilians and soldiers charged with rape and murder. On the night of Fairbanks' escape, a milk delivery girl was found on the camp grounds raped and murdered. Nearby was Fairbanks' coat and a letter to him from Howard's wife, which is shown to Howard. Soon a German plane drops a note, countersigned...
...number of reasons could have entered the President's decision to call for a suspension in Hawaii's home-rule law. The threat of a mainland Governor might be enough to keep the island Democratic machine under control. In 1931-32 the Massie rape & murder case gave the insular government a black eye, revealed an unwholesome connection between local politics, local justice and local race feeling. Aware of the strategic importance of the islands, high Army & Navy officers have long demanded civilian rule stronger and better than resident Governors have been able to supply. Of late Big Business...