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Stars in Action (Fri. 8 p.m., NBC). With Lena Home, Alfred Drake...
Last week Lena Theresa Nienstedt was a free woman...
After her crime, doctors had labeled her "a psychopathic personality with an episode of excitement." She was sent, without trial, to Matteawan State Hospital for the Criminal Insane. There she worked in the laundry, and made a resolute effort to cure herself. A truant who never finished school, Lena studied and read avidly at Matteawan. In nine years her I.Q. rose from 66 to 127. This year she was found sane, but still faced trial. "Her entire personality is changed," said Matteawan's Director John F. McNeill, "as is her outlook on life...
...court, Attorney James D. C. Murray* brought out her story. She had a careless mother and no father. When Lena began going out with boys, her mother, as a dire warning, told her she was illegitimate. Lena sought out the man adjudged her father in a paternity suit years before, but he repudiated her and sent her away. Lena began carrying a knife, then the hatchet, for protection on her way home from work. She said that the old tailor, whom everyone called Pop, tried to fondle her. As she hit him, she kept calling...
...prosecution settled for a plea of guilty to second-degree manslaughter. Last week when Lena came up for sentencing (maximum term: 15 years), Queens County Judge Peter Farrell paroled her until Feb. 18, with the prospect of full freedom thereafter. She gasped. Outside the court demure Lena Nien stedt, beginning a new life at 25, smiled radiantly. "It's wonderful to see the open sky," she said. All she wanted for the present was a juicy steak, for the future a secretarial job and peace of mind. Then she saw her estranged mother standing near by. Lena...