Word: hilda
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dime. Today José and his wife Hilda live in a $60,000 home an hour's drive down the coast from Los Angeles. There they are surrounded by 400 birds, tanks of tropical fish, six dogs and a small chinchilla farm. The new mode of Jose's life is a little bewildering to members of his family, some of whom even think wistfully of the old days in Manhattan. "In a way it was nice to be poor," says his 18-year-old brother, George. "We could get so much fun out of a little dime...
Sightseeing Mistake. Not only was he 3 in. shorter and more than 35 lbs. lighter than the fugitive Hilda had described, but he had dark hair (now grey) and no gold teeth; he wore different clothes and drove a two-toned 1954 Oldsmobile. Told that it was all a mistake, Simmons spent the next day sightseeing and swimming only 50 miles from the border. He might better have headed for home. While he relaxed, the police learned that he had been convicted of burglary and auto theft in the U.S. Besides, he was technically a fugitive from a Texas mental...
Picked up once more, Simmons was threatened with a cocked gun in a vain effort to make him confess, then hauled to Hilda's hospital room, where the dying girl had already identified the killer as everyone from her own doctor to one of the FBI's ten top fugitives. In such cases, the penal code of the State of Nuevo León specifies that the suspect be placed in a line-up with similar persons in similar dress. Simmons was ordered to wear a white shirt and dark trousers and brought into the room with white...
...even worse blow three weeks later after Mexican newspapers headlined a "confession" by another man-a psychotic Texas physician who had been arrested near Múzquiz for running around naked while shooting up an Indian village with a .22 rifle. Not only did the doctor roughly answer Hilda's description, but on the day of the murder he had been seen carrying a .22 pistol only six miles from where the shooting occurred. According to newsmen and the Múzquiz police chief, the doctor repeatedly stated that he had killed "three children" on the Monterrey highway because...
Adamant Innocence. Simmons' lawyers argued that he should be returned to Texas as a mental patient who had no criminal responsibility under Nuevo León law. Nevertheless, without a jury, Simmons was found guilty in March of 1961, largely on the strength of Hilda's alleged identification. Although an appellate court tossed out that key evidence as illegal in 1962, the original trial judge simply pronounced Simmons guilty once more on the basis of disputed facts and such other items as his falsified tourist card and "penal antecedents." In 1964 the Mexican Supreme Court upheld that verdict...