The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-08-06
Justice
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standing of the gravity of the
offense, then pronounced the
sentence that will keep the tim
Grant dishwasher behind bars
for the rest of his existence.
Sergt. Eugene Smith and
Stanley Campbell of the Mount
Clemens police department then
rushed Henderson to Pontiac for
safe-keeping overnight.
MENACED LIFE
Henderson was charged by
Held with having three times as
saulted the Harrison housewife,
daughter of a substantial farm
family and mother of a four year
old child, early on the morning
of July 30. The woman told Of
ficials that Henderson, whom
she had driven to his Barbara
street home from tavern where
both were employed, at the re-
quest of tavc bartender, had
held long knife to her throat
enroute back to the tavern, on
Butler road. south of til, Clinton
river, forced her to disrobe and
then to submit to lis advances
under threat of death. She said
the offense was twice more re-
reated by the dishwasher, once
at Shadyside Park and again as
she drove him to Detroit, still in
fear of her life.
ADMITS GUILT
Henderson, who surrendered
to state police ~ Ypsilanti at S
pm, yesterday was rushed back
to Mount Clemens by local Off
GERS, arraigned before Justice of
the Peace Frank E. Jeanette,
at Helds request, at GAS where
he pleaded guilty and was placed
under 100000 bond. Thirty
minutes later Henderson was
hailed before Judge Spier, in cir
cult court. where he admitted
cult court, where he admitted two
of the attacks, said he had never
night of the crime, was Senten-
ced to spend the rest of his life
in prison and YVES on his way to
Pontiac before midnight.
Held, and Police Chief Arthur
I. Rosso, both said that rum
blings indicating possible vio-
lence from incensed Harrison
township acquaintance of the
outraged white woman had
prompted them to rush through
a"raignment and sentence of the
confessed attacker.
NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS
Henderson told the court that,
after fleeing the woman's car at
Gratiot and Madison avenues in
Detroit, at 4 am, last Thursday
he sought refuge in an all night
theatre until daylight when he
hitch-hiked to Ypsilanti to visit
a girl living on Monroe street
there. He said he left Ypsilanti
that night for Chicago where he
obtained several days employ
ment in restaurant. He said he
then made his way to South
Bend, Ind, which he left yester-
day morning for Ypsjlanti. Upon
his arrival in that city, he con-
tinued, he visited an acquaint-
ance who showed him clippings
from The Daily Monitor-Leader
pointing to him as the guilty
man. Henderson said he told his
friend that he was completely
innocent but later decided to
give himself up which he did at
the Ypsilanti State Police post at
6 pm yesterday.
MOVE SWIFTLY
His rapid return to Mount
Clemens, arraignment, sentence
and despatch to Pontiac followed
in swift succession.
The only variation between
the confessed attackers story
and that of his accuser was that
Henderson said he did not hold
a knife TO the woman's throat.
He said, however, that he held
a piece of steel some IL to Is
inches long against her, told her
il was knife and acknowledged
that she had submitted TO him
only under threat OF death.
EX-CONVICT
Henderson told Judge Spier
that he had been sentenced from
Detroit to Ionia prison in 1895
on a charge of robbery unarmed
and had served one year of
one to 10 year sentence imposed
for that crime.
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