Not Guilty - The Story of Samuel S. Leibowitz NOT GUILTY THE STORY OF SAMUEL - S LEIBOWITZ FRED D - PASLEY 1933 G. P. PUTNAMS SONS NEW YORK SAMUEL S. LEIBOWITZ CONTENTS CHAPTER JAGS I. HAPPYENDING s II. SAMUEL SHOWMAN LEIBOWITZ 29 III SIDEWALKS OF NEW YORK 59 IV. MOTLEY AND MYSTERY 76 V. LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD 95 VI. CAPONE 108 VII. LET FREEDOM RING 118 VIII TECHNIQUE 130 IX. TO THE LADIES 148 X. AND LEIBOWITZ FAINTED 160 XI. THE LAST MILE 190 XII. A BLOT ON EVERY SHIELD 201 XIII. LOCAL BOY MAKES GOOD 215 XIV. NIGGER 226 XV. THE THIRTEENTH JUROR 235 XVI. ALABAMA JUSTICE 270 XVII. TWO LITTLE WORDS 279 NOT GUILTY CHAPTER ONE HAPPY ENDING help me God The spring sunshine, slanting obliquely through the glazed and steel barred windows had laid a latticed pattern upon the courtroom floor. Like a tired chantey man the clerk droned the ritual of the oath. As the witness stood there, midway between judge and jury, parroting him, his upraised hand was silhouetted momentarily against the pattern. His voice was flat, his face expressionless, his bearing mechanical. Only his eyes seemed alive. They were burn ingly intense jet black pupils centered in preternatu rally large whites and they seemed to be peering into remote distances. He sagged into the witness chair and the hand vanished. The bars remained. He gazed across them as he had gazed through them for three years at Sing Sing as con vict No. 75990. They symbolized for him not only the shadow of prison but the shadow of the electric chair. Muted to faint echoes by the thick masonry of the courtroom walls, came the city sounds, the rumble of elevated trains, the clangor of trolley cars, the honking 4 NOT GUILTY horns of automobiles and the whistles of traffic policemen. Alien echoes theywere in the decorous atmosphere of this august tribunal, where the People of the State of New York were prosecuting Harry L. Hoffman for murder in the first degree. So help me God No aura of sanctity attached to the archaic formula for No. 75990 no sense of probity n [...] Autor: Fred. D. Pasley Wydawnictwo: Hughes Press Rok wydania: 2007 Okładka: miękka Liczba stron: 292 Wymiary: 14 x 21.6 cm Język: angielski ISBN: 9781406741421