St. Paul recorder., 1963-01-10
Alleged RoPist
Free As OfficioIS
Pass The Buck


A % year old Minneapolis
man accused of raping a 1S
year old Mechanic Arts school
student in St. Paul is still free
after positive Identification by
the young woman. The mother
of the girl is still trying to get
a complaint against the alleged
aSsailant.
Arrested after a trap suggested
by the police, the man was taken
before police showup late in De-
cember, attended by several rape
victims. The young man is white
his accuser is a Negro girl
He was arrested at University
at Chatsworth by four detectives
as he appeared for a date with
the girl who said he had raped
her on Dec. 19.
She told police after her mother
reported the incident that she was
waiting for a bus on Wabasha on
Dec. 1S on her way home from
night school, when the young man
stopped his car and offered her a
ride.
She reported the young man
showed her what she thought was
a police badge and he told her
not to be frightened. Qater the
badge was identified as an indus
trial firms Identification marker).
Instead of taking her home, the
st. Paul Dispatch story reported
the man drove to the Minnesota
river bottoms near Mendoza and
attacked her.
She said he later drove her
home but would not give her
her books until she showed him
Identification. The girl claimed
the man told her he wanted her
name and telephone number to
call her later for a date.
The young woman said the man
frightened her out Of her wits and
threatened her with a gun.
The girls parents notified pO-
lice. At the police suggestion the
young woman was told to make
a date with him If he called her
as he had promised. He phoned
the girl on Dec. 26 and she prom
ised to meet him at University
and Chatsworth.
The girl went there and 80 were
four st. Paul detectives. When the
man was arrested the Dispatch
story stated he said: Il suppose
this Is for rape"
After the show-up the man was
released. When the girls parents
learned Of the man going free
they wrote the Minnesota-South
Dakota NAACP and reported the
entire incident.
A NAACP legal redress at
tOrney checked with the Ramsey
County attorneys office and
learned that the alleged crime
was committed in Oak Ota
county and that Ramsey had no
Jurisdiction In the case.
The girls parents told the
NAACP neither the st. Paul police
! or the county attorneys office
notified them what the rights Of
their daughter were in the matter,
and she was not told by either
agency she should seek action
from Dakota county officials.
State NAACP officials took the
girl and her mother to the Dakota
county seat at Hastings to lodge
a complaint against the Mime
apolis man and the county at
torney told the NAACP delegation
he could not sign a warrant until
he had seen the st. Paul police
report.
Meantime the police report
was supposed to be enrOute to
Hastings, but on Tuesday Of this
week 1t was learned that the
report is stin In the hands Of
the Ramsey county attorneys .
office, who Is said to be holding
1t until he gets a letter from
the girls doctor.
At press time reporters for this
newspaper had been trying to find
out why the police file has not
been sent to the Dakota county
attorney. Also why the accused
man was not held for a sufficient
time to allow the young woman to
sign complaint against him with
Dakota county officials.
The Minnesota South Dakota
branch of the NAACP is probably
trying to ascertain the same set
Of facts. .>'