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Newspaper
Berkshire Eagle
Location
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1964
Page
6
Mrs. J. D. Tippit thanked the nation for gifts totaling more than $600,000 in memory of her slain husband Patrolman Tippit. She said she has advisers and will decide how to use the money, plans to stay in Dallas with her three children, and noted exchanges with Mrs. Kennedy.
Justice Wolcott of the Delaware Supreme Court granted an indefinite stay of a 10 lash whipping sentence for Talmadge Balser, a $4 robbery convict. The stay allows Balser to appeal, with Gov Carvel opposing the punishment as cruel and unusual. Balser was originally sentenced to 20 lashes and 25 years in prison. the Supreme Court had voided the date for the whipping.
CAMBRIDGE AP Jack Alton Harris 25 of Boston's South End was sentenced to the electric chair on a first degree murder conviction in the shooting death of Francisco Zayas 48. A Middlesex Superior Court jury deliberated 1 hour 20 minutes before a guilty verdict to Judge Lewis Goldberg in the 1962 slaying at the Ricci farm bunkhouse Lexington. The death penalty was mandatory as the jury did not recommend leniency. The case involved Harris invading the bunkhouse with intent to rob sleeping Puerto Rican farmhands. Judge Lynch later resentenced Balser to 10 lashes and 15 years in prison.
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