CONDEMNED MAN ACQUITTED
COURT’S DECISION ON MURDER CHARGE
NEW YORK, May 3. Jacob Simmons, aged 52, whO spent nine months in a Sing Sing death cell for the murder of a Brooklyn manufacturer. left the Criminal Court, today a free man. He was acquitted largely through the tireless efforts of his wife, who never doubted his innocence.
In 1929, a pocket-book manufacturer was felled with an iron pipe and left to die in front of his plant. Three tnen were seen running; away. Twelve years late Simmons and two others Were arrested and the following year they were convicted and sentenced to death. Mrs Simmons took 8 job to raise money to appeal against her husband’s conviction. When a witness who had'previously identified Simmons as one of the three men steen running away after the murder admitted that he might have been mistaken, the jury, after 16 hours of deliberation, decided that Simmons i Was innocent
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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24867, 6 May 1946, Page 5
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