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...trial, Moseley had admitted murdering three women, setting fire to the genital organ of one victim, raping "four or five" others, robbing and attempting to rape even more. He had attacked lone women on New York streets, using a single-shot .22 rifle, a pistol, a steak knife, a hunting knife and a screwdriver. He was also a necrophiliac. Said a psychiatrist in court: "He told me he got no thrill with live women he raped...
...crime for which he was finally convicted occurred about 3 a.m. last March 13 when Moseley, armed with a bone-handled German hunting knife, was cruising in his Corvair through the quiet streets of Queens. In calm, almost dispassionate testimony, he told the shocked courtroom: "I just set out to find any girl that was unattended and I was going to kill her." The girl he spotted was Kitty Genovese, a 28-year-old bar manager, driving her red Fiat home from work. Moseley followed until she parked in a lot just 35 yds. from her apartment home...
...force as is necessary to repel the aggressor. But what is reasonable? In Washington last month, as Frances Clark, a comely 24-year-old, sat in a Chinese restaurant, a man named Zebedee Lee, 42, walked over and, by his own admission, "patted her on the buttocks." Grabbing a knife, Miss Clark stabbed him in the stomach, putting him in the hospital. Though Lee's act was technically an assault, the district attorney felt that the girl used more than reasonable force to repel it. As a result, Miss Clark, not Lee, was charged with assault...
...Negro walked up to Ismael Velez, 42, in a Manhattan subway station, plunged a knife into Velez' chest and left without a word. Velez lived, but could not identify his assailant...
Just hours after Wagner's beefed-up subway force went on duty, a Negro pulled a knife and slashed it across the face of Cab Driver Henry Feist, 64, as he rode a Brooklyn train. The man was arrested and held on assault charges. But Nick Philippides, his face still swollen and battered, now spoke for a whole city when he said: "Of course I'll have to take the subway. I have no car, and I have to work for a living. But I'll be afraid...