The Case of Arthur Perry
The Case of Arthur Perry
JanMikell S.
What happened?
On the morning of July 2,1937, a battered body of a young woman
was found in an empty parking lot which was in the Jamaica district
on the South side of Queens, New York. Next to the body there was
a baby girl crying but was untouched and unharmed.
Investigation
Investigators began to realize that it was a killing and someone she
trusted or knew well, since the woman would trust them enough to
hold the baby. Once the name and baby were put in the media, a
woman stepped up and noticed the baby, her name was Phennie
Perry. A 22 year old neighbor of the dead woman who had recently
moved in the neighborhood.
Following Investigation
After an intense 5 day trial in November 1937, Arthur Perry then
had his conviction overturned on a technicality. One year later they
retried and then he was found guilty. Then on August 3, 1939, he
was still protesting his innocence, Arthur Perry then was executed.
Without the twin interventions of fate and the forensic science they
could not have found that Arthur Perry was guilty since he was first
overturned.
The body was identified as Palm, once the investigators went to
Palms address to investigate. They found that upstairs lived
Phennie Perry and her 22 year old construction worker, Arthur
Perry. But what they found in the apartment was more fascinating,
it was the missing right shoe and a bloodstained blue shirt with a
piece torn off from it that matched the strip of cloth found on Palm,
the victims body.