Word: noack
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was little of Flatbush left in the dark-eyed, glamour-bobbed brunette who called herself Yvette Madsen. Only a hint of Canarsie in her consonants, a touch of Gowanus in her vowels remained to mark her as plain Jane Noack, a kid born in Brooklyn 22 years ago. Yvette was glad enough to have left Jane behind...
...before a three-judge U.S. district court in Frankfurt, Yvette stood trial for her husband's murder. Their two children (aged four and one) had been sent back to Brooklyn to stay with Yvette's mother. At Yvette's side stood her father, plain-spoken Alfred Noack, who had given up his carpenter's job to help defend his daughter. From spectators' benches in the packed courtroom, Yvette's neighbors, members like herself of the tight, bored community of Army wives self-marooned in a strange land, looked on. Some brought their knitting. Others...
...look the type that would bump off her husband, does she?" asked one of the wives leaving court to cook supper, as Carpenter Noack carried his daughter from the courtroom. "I don't know about that," answered another. "She looks screwy...
...Hang Me! Hang Me!" Throughout the trial, Alfred Noack tried his best to promote the same argument in his daughter's defense. "She's absolutely insane," he told newsmen. "She doesn't want to go on living." He brought an affidavit to the same effect from Yvette's mother in Brooklyn. "She was always high-strung when she was a girl," wrote Mrs. Noack. "She had a lot of crying spells. She had tantrums. She acted like a nut." At 15, the girl had run away from home, had lived with a middle-aged merchant...