The People v. Canonica

Mrs. Mary Gibbs, aged fifty-three, testified in the criminal court of Cook county at the trial of Arthur J. Canónica, aged twenty-eight, on a charge of assault with intent to rape. She said she left her home in Chicago about one-thirty in the afternoon, March 24, 1938, to go to a street car line. She had opened her purse to take out her fare and was walking along the sidewalk. Canónica passed her and turned and seized her. He said: “Grandma, if you never was before you are going to get it now.” She explained that one of the words he used meant sexual intercourse. He attempted to push her down…