Word: mrs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cheers for the courageous action of Mrs. Marcella Norman in driving the automobile through the showcase window-the only bright spot in an otherwise troubled world. Mrs. Norman's only oversight was her failure to run down half a dozen automobile salesmen and perhaps a real estate...
...MRS. TIP GRAHAM Duncan, Okla...
...MRS. JONATHAN H. HOCHSTATTER Cincinnati...
...summer night a year ago, Jimmie Wilson, some moonshine under his belt, went to the back door of the home of Mrs. Estelle Barker, an elderly widow, in the dusty little town of Marion. As Wilson told it, he asked her to pay him in advance for some yard work he was supposed to do for her later that week, and she gave him some money. But as Estelle Barker, a white woman, told the story, Wilson threatened her into giving him money. And after he pocketed the $1.95, she said, he grabbed her and tried to ravish...
Wilson's court-appointed lawyer objected that Wilson was being tried for robbery, not intent to rape, and that Witness Barker's obviously inflammatory testimony "infuriates the minds" of the jury. But the court overruled the objection, allowed Mrs. Barker to tell her story. That decision doomed Defendant Wilson...