March 30, 2001 • Page Image 77
…From Carnegie Hall to Music Hall Twenty-one-year-old Victoria Price was tough talking, tobacco chewing , twice married, and had served time in a workhouse for adultery and vagrancy. Seventeen-year-old Ruby Bates, who was quiet and soft-spoken, disappeared after the first trial and re- emerged at the second (which Liebowitz also lost) as a surprise wit- ness for the defense. Like Liebowitz, she was forever transformed by the trials: She not on...…

















































