People v. Perry

The defendant was convicted of the crime of murder in the first degree for the alleged killing of his wife late in the evening of July 1, 1936. The body was discovered at about seven-fifteen on the morning of July 2d lying on the ground at or near the corner of One Hundred and Fifty-seventh and Tuckerton streets, Jamaica, below the elevated tracks of the Long Island Railroad. The surroundings indicated the possibility of a struggle. Near the body were found a man’s Oxford shoe and, about fifty feet away, a chunk of cement. When the body was moved, an. electric flat-iron was discerned and also…