FULL TEXT: (New York, N. Y.) – Mrs. Edna Hancock, thirty-one-year-old former hospital attendant, who is charged with having falsely accused Murray Goldman, salesman, of attempted rape, was indicted yesterday for first-degree perjury.
The indictment against Mr. Goldman, who was convicted last
fall on Mrs. Hancock’s charges and as a result faced a possible ten years in
Sing Sing, was dismissed last Tuesday, by Judge Samuel S. Leibowitz, of Kings County
Court, who at the same time ordered Mrs. Hancock held in $25,000 on a perjury
charge.
Mr. Goldman was freed by Judge Leibowitz after a lie
detector test given two months after his conviction because new evidence uncovered
during the trial raised doubts about his guilt in the minds of both his guilt
in the minds of both Judge Leibowitz and the prosecutor, Assistant District
Attorney John E. Cone.
The indictment handed up yesterday by the grand jury said
that Mrs. Hancock stated under oath at the trial that “while the attempted
attack took place she screamed and hollered for twenty minutes, while in fact
she did not.” The indictment added that Mrs. Hancock stated under oath at the
trial that “while the attempted attack took place she screamed and hollered for
twenty minutes, while in fact she did not.” The indictment added that Mrs.
Hancock also stated under oath that she did not know Murray Goldman until the
day of the alleged attempt, July 1, 1943, while she actually met him in May and
at the time rode about town with him in the subway and in an automobile.
According to Mrs. Hancock the attempted attack took place at
the nurses’ home in the Brooklyn Hospital, 681 Clarkson Avenue, Brooklyn, where
she was employed.
Mrs. Hancock, who is being held in the Women’s House of
Detention in Manhattan, was in court yesterday to hear the indictment read. Her
lawyer, Vincent O’Connor, asked that pleading be postponed until Monday. Judge Leibowitz
again fixed bail at $25,000.
Mr. O’Connor later told reporters that Mrs. Hancock had sent
a telegram to her husband, William Clark Hancock, a Seabee, stationed in
Dansfield, R. I., asking him to try to get leave to come to New York for the
trial.
A perjury conviction could bring five years in prison on a
$25,000 fine.
[“Indict Woman For Perjury in Goldman Case – Jurors Find
Discrepancies in
Mrs. Hancock’s Story of His Alleged Attack,” New York Herald-Tribune (N.Y.), Feb. 18, 1944, p. 16]
Mrs. Hancock’s Story of His Alleged Attack,” New York Herald-Tribune (N.Y.), Feb. 18, 1944, p. 16]
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