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Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 29, No. 1. 1966.

Hate mail

Hate mail

After winning her court case the letters postmarked Baltimore became progressively uglier: "You had better read this carefully! It may be the last one you read. Somebody is going to put a bullet through your fat ass, you scum, you masculine lesbian bitch."

"You will be killed before too long. Or maybe your pretty little baby boy. The queer looking bastard. You are a bitch and your son is a bastard."

"Slut! Slut! Slut! Bitch slut from the devil."

There are thousands much worse than these, and most have sexual overtones.

Her mail was tampered with at the Baltimore post office, and at one stage they sent it to Communist Party Headquarters. Her garbage cans were overturned before they were collected, her son received parking tickets every time he went out driving, and a piece of wood was rammed down her dog's throat. She found city officials going through her correspondence but no judge would issue a warrant for trespassing.

Her lawyer went to see the grand jury, and had no sooner knocked on the door than he was arrested for contempt of court. The lawyer finally broke, and is now working against her.