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Correspondent Simms, 48, first became suspicious when he noticed that returns were coming in irregularly. The winner was crusading Lawyer Albert L. Patterson, who was shot and killed two weeks later ("TIME. June 28). A.P.'s figures on his vote checked exactly with the official count. But for Patterson's opponent, Lee ("Red") Porter, A.P. counted 1,405 fewer votes than the officials...
...find haven in wicked little Phenix City. As time passed, respectable families came to Phenix City, too, but gamblers, pimps and narcotics pushers still ran the town, and fattened on the trade of soldiers from Ft. Benning, just across the river near Columbus, Ga. This year Lawyer Albert L. Patterson ran for attorney general of Alabama on a pledge to shut down vice throughout the state, and especially in his home town of Phenix City (pop. 23,000). He won the nomination, which means election, but he did not seem jubilant. In a speech one day last week, Patterson said...
...Patterson's murder was the climax of a long tradition of violence that has touched both hoodlums and the respectable families on upper-class Summerville Road. Hoyt Shepherd, onetime casino owner and political boss, has been attacked and wounded, homes have been bombed, Lawyer Patterson's office was once set afire, and members of the Russell Betterment Association have been beaten on the street...
Governor Persons shut down Phenix City's bars and gambling halls, offered a reward for the arrest of Patterson's killer, and went up to the county courthouse for a showdown with Phenix City's myopic law-enforcement officers. He warned them: "This is the end of the line." Patterson's son, John, said he would "carry out the program of my father," run for attorney general, but many persons in Phenix City were badly frightened. Alton V. Foster, manager of the Chamber of Commerce, quit his job and got ready to move his family...
ROBERT B. PATTERSON...