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.
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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
<Q. Bow many tunes? A. T don't
the daily Record, dunn, n. c,
remember.
Q. Had you had sexual relations
with other -men, before Mickey?
A. With one.
Q. Who? A. Lawrence Green
baum.
Q. That was the father of your
child? A. Yes.
The SIO,OOO to $15,000 figure
first was established in Liebler’s
direct examination of Pat during
the morning session, shortly before
Herz opened his cross-examination.
It was also during, this direct
examination that Pat broke down,
crying when she began to tell of
the last fight she had with Mickey
in a M>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
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her,” Pat told Liebler.
s "Working at what?” Liebler
• asked. 4
“You know what!” Pat said an
• grily, as Herz objected.
“Please answer," Liebler said,
■ and Pat explained “to continue
seeing' men.” She remembered the
; name of one “customer,” Martin
; Falk, who paid her SIOO after a
: late at his Essex House apartment.
i In March, 1952, Erica and Pat
drove do?n to Miami Beach. 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.