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The Case of Arthur Perry

Arthur Perry, a 22-year-old construction worker from Queens, was implicated in the murder of a young woman found dead in July 1937, with her unharmed baby nearby. Evidence including a blood-stained concrete piece, an electric iron, and a shoe led investigators to suspect that the killer was someone the victim knew. After a retrial, Perry was convicted and executed in 1939, despite initially having his conviction overturned on a technicality.

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The Case of Arthur Perry

Arthur Perry, a 22-year-old construction worker from Queens, was implicated in the murder of a young woman found dead in July 1937, with her unharmed baby nearby. Evidence including a blood-stained concrete piece, an electric iron, and a shoe led investigators to suspect that the killer was someone the victim knew. After a retrial, Perry was convicted and executed in 1939, despite initially having his conviction overturned on a technicality.

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The Case of Arthur Perry (1937)

JanMikell S.

Who Is Arthur Perry?


Ocupation - Construction Worker
22 Years old
Lived in Queens New York

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.

Evidence? Murder Weapon?


The detectives found about 50 feet away from the body was a blood
stained piece of concrete. Also nearby was a electric iron drenched
in blood and mans black left shoe with a hole in its sole of the shoe.
Detectives began to investigate, at first they thought it was just a
random attack, but they began to think and realize that if it was
just a "random attack" and the woman was carrying the baby, then
why was the baby unharmed? untouched?

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.

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