PAGE SIX 1 Pat Hung Out In Bars : Posed Nude, Had Baby At 16 NEW YORK—Pretty Pat Ward, I who hung out in bars and night spots, po6ed in the nude and had a baby at the age of 16, told the I story of her downfall in her testi , tnony at the Mickey Jelke trial now in progress. Pat told Jelke’s lawyer, George ■>* Washington Herz, that she was 16 years old when she met Skitch Henderon, “once at a rehearsal in the NBC studios ... He wanted to take me out ... He gave his telephone number to me.” *>* At the same age, “I went for a drive with Joey Adams." Asked to identify him, Pat said “He was _ suoposed to be a comedian" t Still sweet 16, she met Jack Eigen at Toots Shor’s, a restaurant • < she had been to “possibly” six times, she said. She went out with ™ Hal Tunis, whom she identified as ~ a radio announcer, Pat testified. _ REFUSED MERRITT A DATE ■ m She sad she received a phone call . from Robert Merritt, who wanted ■ ! a date with her, but that she re. fused. It was Merritt who later took her to El Borracho, where she had her first date with Jelke. “Don’t you know that Merritt is a convicted pimp?” Herz asked. ‘That he is doing time in jail?” (Merritt pulled a five-to-10 year stretch in 1953 for pjrostituting two teen-age girls and two other wo men, including his wife, Carol Sut ton.) “Do you know a character named Miles Leslie?” Herz asked. “Yes. a few months before Mer rit—before Merritt called me.” “Do you know Leslie is in Jail for compulsory prostitution?” Herz asked. Pat said she did. Asked if she went to Toots Shor’s With escorts, Pat said, “Some tunes. 1 * She next admitted going to the Theater Bar, on 45th St. be tween Broadway and Eighth Ave., not to drink, but to meet young friends from drama school. MET BABY’S DAD AT BAR Q. Did you testify that Larry Greenbaum is the father of your child? A. Yes. Q. Where did you meet him? A. The Theater Bar. Q. How old were you? A. About 16. Q. How long had you known him before you had intercourse with him? A. I had just met him. Q. Did you have intercourse the same day you met him? A. Yes. Q. Was it a pickup? A. I don’t remember. Q. Did you ever go out with Miles Leslie? A. No. Q. Did you ever go out on dates with men for Miles Leslie? For Larry Greenbaum? A No. Q. Did you have sex with Joe Moore? A. I did not. Moore, identified by Pat as a press agent, had several dates with her, she said. He gave her money when she was pregnant, she testi fied. Q. When you had intercourse with Larry Greenbaum, was it with your will or against you will? A. The first time I didn't know about It. Q. Did you say it was rape? A. Yes. Q. Did you prosecute Larry Greenbaum for rape? A. No. Pat, who had testified earlier that she made between SIO,OOO and 616,000 as a vice doll for Jelke, said she never got any money from Greenbaum. Asked if she became pregnant “as the result of dates for money from men you were see ing at the request of Miles Leslie," Pat said icily, “That is not true.” The 21-year-old witness said: "1 don’t go around asking men for money.” when Herz asked her if Moore was the first man who had helped her out financially. After this answer, Herz listed the names of the men she had mentioned who hal given her money for “hard luck stories.” ABOUT HARD-LUCK STORIES Pat tried to say that she had told those stories because Mickev or dered her to, but Herz made her answer only “yes” or “no” to his questions. “Did anybody tell you to give Joe Moore a hard-luck story?” Herz asked. Pat burst Into tears, saying “It wasn’t a hard-luck story.” She said that she was seven months pregnant when she went to visit her mother’s friend, Betty Vargas, in Stamford, Conn. She denied telephoning Joe Moore from , there, asking for money, but ad ? mitted he gave her SSO when she sci returned. Bn “Didn’t you ten Joe Moore. §£ Unless you give me some money, II ;«!. going to name yon the father f of the child'?” HOT asked. *1 did " Pot *a !d Then, she § Mid. weeping: *1 needed it. He felt Jr * erry fnr HQim GIVING SOB STORY K Pat aald she didn’t give Moore 1 • «* story “I told him the truth K T the money. He was the K auiy oM I thought T could ask,” '''Z; al jjp -V'.. IB B«* B mmm he T £ W 5 m 11 %xj| m .!jJ ■ jB yjkiww k^B B PAT WARD LEAVING COURT she said. She denied that she had gone out with a married man, alone, while she was pregnant in Connecticut, but said a man identified as "Vin cent” had driven her to New York to see her mother. "Did you receive any money from this man?” Herz asked. “I paid him back.’’ “Did you receive any money?” “I paid him back.” Pat shouted. TEARS FLOW AGAIN “How long was it after you met this man that you received this money?” Herz asked. “How long before he loaned it?” Pat asked. Finally she burst into tears again. “Did you give him a hard luck story?" Herz asked her. “I had to go to the doctor’s," Pat sobbed, and court was adjourned. Pat’s baby, born in Manhattan on Nov. 20, 1950, was given out for adoption, Herz said in his opening statement to the jury before Pat’s testimony started Tuesday. Her direct examination, by Liebler, took nearly three days. JUDGE REPROVES HERZ Herz wasted no time getting into his cross-examination, and snap ped out his first question: “Do I recall correctly you were crying the first day you took the stand? Were there tears in your eyes?” he asked, over Liebler’s ob jections. “There will be no more of that, Mr. Herz,” Judge Valente inter rupted. “The Jury saw. They were he“e.” q. Do I understand you to say you named all the men with whom you had intercourse during the time you were living with Mickey Jelke? A. As far as I know. Q. Do you know the total num ber of men you named? A. I don’t know. Q. Would you say you had sexual relations with 20? With 30? A. I don’t know. NO INCOME-TAX RETURN Q. Would you say 100? A. No. I would not. O. Would you say 50? A. I don’t think so. O. Forty? A. T don’t think so. Q. Thirty-five? A. I don’t know, Mr. Herz. ©. During the period you were living with Mickey Jelke, you said you received from men, for acts of prostitution, between SIO,OOO and $15,000. Did you get that money from the men you named? A. Yes. Q. Incidentally, did you file an income tax return in 1951-52 for ! working as a prostitute? A. No. Next Hen wanted to know how Pat "refreshed” her memory about the monies she was paid as Mick ey’s alleged dollar-doll. He wanted to know if she kept notations of the transactions. “With Ben Lewis yon said you had no sex,” Herz said. “Did yon include that SSOO that vou received from him in the SIO,OOO vou re ceived for acts of prostitution.” “Possibly,” said Pat. "Do you have any idea of how much you received for committing acts of prostitution?” Hot In sisted. “No, I do not,” the witness fi nally admitted. VAGUE ABOUT FIRST JOB Herz wanted to know about Pit’s first job, and expressed astonish ment that she couldn’t recall it ex. actly. She said she once worked as an usherette in a movie, but her first real job was in some shop. He wanted to know if she had ever attended drama school. 1 Pat allowed that she had “sat in at a few classes.” Over many objections from the prosecution, Herz asked the wit ness to name the lawyer who rep resented her at Mickey’s first vice trial in 1953. She answered J. Ro land Sala. “Did Sala tell you that he had been a Shakespearean actor?” Herz asked, but Liebler’s objection was sustained. “It's good for a laugh,” Liebler commented as he sat down, “but I object to it.” TOLD TO BE HERSELF Pat insisted that she had not re ceived “instructions” about how to behave on the witness stand, ex plaining: “I was just told to be myself.” Herz then wanted to know all about Mickey’s proposal of mar riage to Pat, and how many men had proposed to her before. She said her first proposal, when she was 16, came from Girard Laborde. She couldn’t remember any others. “Mickey said he wanted to marry me,” Pat said, explaining that this happened at El Morocco soon after they started sharing his midtown apartment in September, 1951. She couldn't remember exactly what words he used, but at the time, she admitted, she didn’t think he was serious. “It’s possible,” she said, when asked if she knew Mickey was a member of the wealthy oleomar garine family. Pat answered, “I don’t know,” or “I don’t remember” or “X don’t re call” to Herz’ questions about how Mickey worded his proposals, how she reacted to them, how many times he proposed. “Did you ever tell Mickey you had a child born out of wedlock?” “Yes,” Pat said, but couldn’t re member when it was she said this to her allege! fiance. She couldn’t remember either when Mickey first gave her his ring, but recalled that Mickey said “he wanted me to have that ring until he could get me another one, to show we were engaged.” The ring hardly had time to get warm on Pat’s finger before she gave It hack to Mickey, she said. Then Mickey gave It bad to Pat. Then Pat gave It back to Mickey, “to trade it on another* The new ring, she said, was for Mickey. He bought it before he left for a Miami vacation, shortly before their breakup m 1952. Pat said. “He told me he was. buying a zircon—a diamond, rather—for himself.” Q. Had yon had sexual relations with Mickey before he gave yon the ring? A. Yes. MICKEY NOT HER FIRST a mi Beach motel, the Blue Bay. She said that Mickey went to Florida in February, 1952, with Carl Jarrett, identified as the boy friend of Erica Steele, a convicted madam. Erica is under SSOO bail as a material witness. “Mickey told me to stay with Erica and continue working with * i Come Drive America’s Best-Selling Car! Complete and official registrations for December, 1954 and January, 1955 (the first two complete months for which comparative registration figures are available on ’55 models) show that... ° MORE PEOPLE ARE BUYING 55 CHEVROLETS * % THAN ANY OTHER CAR! *1 jjm TH# M Air 4-Door Sidw i. ■ It’s Easy to See-Why Chevrolet’s the Best-Sellerl It’s the only low-priced car with the beauty smoothness of Glide-Ride Front Suspen- Jjßßß|l— quality of Body by Fisher . . . 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Pat ; had S3OO with her, she said, “from , working—from the men.” ' When they arrived, Mickey asked her how much money she had and • she told him: “Not as much as you expect.” "He took my purse and opened it and took my money out and gave me $20," she added. “He said that he didn’t know why I didn’t have more. He was angry.” WRECK OF THEIR ROMANCE They left Erica and her beau, went to the motel, and were there a week arguing constantly. Then came the breakup of the romance. “We were driving back from a night club,” Pat said. “I tolk Mick ey I was sick and disgusted of the way I was living. I couldn’t con tinue any longer and said. ‘Are we going to get married or not? I told him I didn’t believe him. I didn’t want any part of him. He said, ‘What am I going to do for mon ey?’ and I said I didn’t care what he did. “And then, when we got back to the motel, he started to hit me.” Here Pat put her hands to her face. Herz leaped up, asking: “Is the witness crying?” SHE GRABBED A KNIFE “Step up and find out," invited Judge Valente and Herz did. • “Let the record show,” shouted Liebler, “that Mr. Herz put his face up against the witness with a look of intimidation on his face.” Pat vcontinued “I ran into the kitchen and taak a knife and told FRIDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 25, 1955 him if he didn’t get out, Fd Use it and he left.f ’ Here she began to cry, and was given a short recess. Under direct examination, Pat also said she had visited Mickey’s mother and stepfather, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph W. Teal; that Mrs. Teal had given her an ermine wrap, later left at the Delmonico Hotel, where Pat ran up an unpaid bill. She also testified that Erica. Steele once telephoned George White, pretending she was Pat. WHITE NOT INTERESTED “I told Mickey about George White at Erica’s apartment," Pat explained. "I told Mickey I had met Mr. White and that he told me he was producing a new show and there might be a part in it for me. Mickey said he had lots of money, why didn’t I try to get some out of him. I told him I couldn’t do that.” Then Erica' made the call to White, and- “Erica told us Mr. White was not interested in any thing like that.” Pat said she never dated White. She said she met Dane Clark, but had no relations with him’. Services Saturday For Mr. Partin E. Allison Partin, 77, of Angier, died Wednesday after a short ill ness. Funeral will be Saturday at 3 p. m. at the Overby Funeral Chapel in Angier, with the Rev. E. E. Hensley officiating. Burial will be in the Adams Family Cemetery on Route 1, Angier. Surviving are two sons, R. L. Partin of Durham, and J. M. Par tin of Baltimore, Md.; two daugh ters, Mrs. W. D. Vinson of Route 3, Raleigh, and Mrs. Hazel Berry man of Durham; and 15 grand children. He was a retired merch ant.