LEFT DEATH CELL A FREE MAN
Received Fridav, 11.40 p.m. NEW YORK,. Alav 3. Jacob Sinnuons, aged 52, who liaspent niue months in th.e Sing Sing death cell for tlie inui-der of a Brooklyn manufacturer, left the Criininu.1 Gour, today a free imui. Ile was acquitted l&rgelv" tbrougli the tii'eless efl'orts o his wife who never doub-ted his innocence. In 1920, a pocketbook manufacturer was felleil with an ironpjpe and left to die in front of his ])lant. Three lnen were seen running away. Twelve years later Simmous and tvvo others- were tar rested and the following year they were convieted and sentcnced to death. Mrs. iSimmons took a job to raise monev to appeal against her husband's conviction. The defence lawver contended tlrat it was a case of mistakeu identity an,d when tlie witness, who previously idenlilied Simmons as one of the three lnen seen running away after the murder, adniilted he might have been .mistaken, a jury, after sixteen hours deliberation, decided that Simmons was innocent.
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Chronicle (Levin), 4 May 1946, Page 5
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168LEFT DEATH CELL A FREE MAN Chronicle (Levin), 4 May 1946, Page 5
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