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...Jersey Supreme Court was not particularly impressed by the claims of Murderer Louis Van Duyne. Convicted of what the court called "the patently vicious crime" of beating his wife to death with his fists, Van Duyne had appealed on the ground that among others Paterson newspapers inflamed the jury against him by saying that he had been "arrested at least ten times," had once "threatened to kill a cop," was now "accused of brutally beating his wife," and had allegedly told police, "You've got me for murder. I don't desire to tell you anything." The court...
Both cities had been braced for trouble. "Ever since the Harlem riots," said Paterson Mayor Frank X. Graves Jr., 40, a tough ex-tank commander, "we've been on pins and needles." For three nights, angry mobs shattered store windows and clashed with helmeted riot cops. On Elizabeth's waterfront, center of the rioting there, 300 Negro youths scuffled with the police and with 100 white toughs...
...Paterson a dozen punks boarded a bus, smashed windows and terrorized passengers. Negroes in a third-floor tenement rained debris down on a group of cops, then slammed the window. Firemen quickly scrambled up a ladder, smashed the window and seized two men and a woman. When bottles came hurtling out of another building, a flying wedge of cops charged in, flushed nine youths and arrested all but one-a child of seven or eight whom Mayor Graves whacked once on the behind and sent home...
...told, 20 people were injured and 83-many of them hoodlums with previous records-were arrested. One man charged with smashing windows in Paterson was swiftly convicted and sentenced to a year in jail...
Negro leaders laid the violence to the wrongs of ghetto life. Paterson's Mayor Graves conceded that Negroes in his city had just complaints, but he argued angrily that the riots were not a legitimate expression of their grievances. Said Graves, as he slapped a ban on all Fourth Ward public assemblies except weddings and funerals: "This was just plain old lousy lawbreakers who are using their color to say they can't be arrested...