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...this: on March 6, 1960, he appeared on television to indulge in one of his routine denunciations of cops in Harlem, most of whom he claims are on the take from gamblers, narcotics and flesh peddlers; in the course of his diatribe, he named a Harlem widow named Esther James as "bag woman" for the police department...
...judges." Cops and crooks were in cahoots to prevent him from cleaning up Harlem's corruption. Prize example: Arthur Powers, a gambler, was shot to death last Oct. 20; the killers, Terry Lindsay, "Skippy" Martin and "Hank" Hawkins, were known, but "have been sheltered by the police." Moreover, Esther James, the 68-year-old domestic whom Powell had already libeled, was the "finger woman" for the murder...
Once upon a time in 1960, New York Democratic Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, 56, called a Harlem housewife named Esther James a "bagwoman," meaning, in Harlem patois, that she was a graft collector for the police department. Mrs. James, declaring her innocence, won a $46,500 libel judgment against him, but thanks to his intricate legal dodges, it may be a long time before she collects. Nonetheless, Mrs. James's bag, in theory at least, should be comfortably full. Last week the State Supreme Court in Manhattan awarded her an extra $163,500, as a result of Adam...
...months, Powell has ducked paying a $46,500 libel judgment won by Mrs. Esther James, a Harlem widow whom Powell labeled on TV as a "bag woman" for gambling payoffs. With interest, Powell's debt is now close to $51,000. With rare severity, New York has issued a warrant for his civil ar rest. But now that Congress has convened, Solon Powell has once more donned the constitutional toga (Art. I, Sec. 6) that immunizes Congressmen from civil arrest "during their attendance at the sessions of their respective houses, and in going to and returning from the same...
...pressure was steeply stepped up by the arrival in Ireland of Esther Vanhomrigh, a young woman Swift had known in London. After eight years of harrowing tension-it seems clear that the affair was never consummated-Swift apparently chose Hester instead of Esther. A few weeks later, at the age of 33, Esther died...