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By PRESTON McGRAW DALLAS (UPI) -- The state rested its murder case against Jack Ruby Friday with bombshell testimony that Ruby decided two days before he shot Lee Harvey Oswald to kill him and show the world ‘‘Jews do not have guts.’’ Before the defense could get started a jailbreak caused pandemonium outside the courtroom. The state’s star witness, police Sgt. Patrick T. Dean, testified Ruby told him 10 minutes after he shot the accused assassin of President Kennedy that he knew all along he had to do it. Shortly after Dean left the stand he captured one of the seven jail breakers in the hallway near the courtroom. Then as deputies and police began rounding up the escapees from fifth floor cells, the trial continued. Asks Acquittal The defense, overruled in shouted demands for a mistrial on the basis of Dean's testimony, immediately moved for a directed verdict of acquittal when it started its case, Judge Joe B. Brown refused. The defense called Karen Lynn (Little Lynn) ar a former stripteaser at Ruby’s Carousel Club. She had been in the corridor during the jail break. She swooned when she saw two men run past what looked like a gun in the ribs of Mrs. Ruth Thornton, a clerk of county court. A newsman got Mrs. Bennett smelling salts and she later took the stand after defense at torney Melvin Belli told the eight-man, four woman jury he would show Ruby was insane when he pulled the trigger. Wearing a white maternity dress, her eyes red from weeping, the witness said Ruby sent her a $25 money order minutes before he she* Oswald, **He was crying’’ when she * on the phone to ask for 4 Dean climaxed the si wire gob ® in the electric chair, Pro Quick To Two final defense witnesses before court ad journed for the weekend said Ruby has a ‘‘quick temper’’ and ‘‘explodes without warning.’’ The defense said this set the stage for psychiatric testimony next week. It was 2:55 p.m., (C,S,T.) on the third day of testimony when Dist, Atty, Henry Wade rose and said: co Honor, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, tests at this time,’' e attorney Melvin M. Belli had just cross examination of the star witness, Patrick T. Dean, .ue defense now begins its case designed to prove the 52-year-old defendant was insane when he shot the accused assassin Nov. 24, Dean electrified the court when he testified that Ruby told him 10 minutes after the shooting that he intended all along to kill Oswald.
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Grand Prairie News Texan
Grand Prairie, Texas, US
Fri, Mar 06, 1964
Page 9
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