Word: rapes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...told a story which is as old as the South. A 34-year-old white man named Irving F. Brown had called on her, asked her to come to his house as a baby sitter. Instead, he drove her to a lonely lane, beat and attempted to rape...
Brown was arrested. Last week an all-white jury found him guilty of assault with intent to rape. Tampa's Judge Roy Amidon commented: "This is the most reprehensible case that ever came before me. It is much worse than if the races of the participants were reversed." He sentenced Brown to 20 years in the state penitentiary...
...Wetumpka, Ala. (pop. 3,300) last week, a jury of white men weighed the facts in the trial of a white man charged with raping a Negro woman. The prosecutor, Winston Huddleston, urged the jurors to decide the case "just like you would if a Negro was charged with raping a white woman . . . [and] show the Negro that he can get justice in court." The jurors did. They found 30-year-old John C. Howard guilty and fixed his penalty (an Alabama jury's prerogative) at 45 years in prison. Next day Howard's cousin, 21-year...
...traditional house of light opera. One night last week there was a performance of Rimsky-Korsakov's The Czar's Bride. A few hours earlier, in the afternoon, the Communist lackeys of Russia put on a go-minute political show which might have been entitled The Rape of Berlin...
Francis J. Gallagher, suspected of being last Thursday's Radcliffe "prowler," was indicted for assault with attempt to rape and for completed rape by a Middle-sex County Grand Jury yesterday morning. He will be arraigned in Superior Court Monday or Tuesday...