Show Garcia s Life Marred By Sequence Of Betrayals By ETHEL C. HALE f This is the third 1 in a series of five outline the case and murderer at the convicted of Jesse author is secretary of the ace of The for The first two articles examined the socio-economic problems of the Mexican-American We have outlined briefly the social patterns into which Jesse Garcia was we now turn our attention to the His is a series of Strung out along the years of perpetual hunger and the condescending scorn of the IT WOULD BE difficult to write a detailed biography of Jesse His life has no his history is periodically disrupted by his and a series of Jesse cannot remember when it all except for a few bright spots when he has been he remembers it as always the When he was seven years old authorities placed him in an institution in parents were then still Jesse can recall nis at the institution and his inability to understand He was not only motherless and he was without a language in which to To understand Jesse's we must know that among Mexican-Americans more than the family unit is the symbol of Because of their there childhood friendship of long is no no no The family must serve as a buffer against a harsh world to restore confidence and And Jesse had in this meaning of the term no He can remember nights when he crept into a corner of some skid row hotel where he slept if at least There were times when he huddled in the back seat of a and before going to wondered when he would have something to eat Even among the hardest there are some weak And there are when bad is being lavishly handed who get more than their Troubles had become an ever greater burden to Jesse's She meant Jesse she promised him a birthday She left am going to get the things for your Jesse invited some little friends They waited a long TWO DAYS LATER Jesse his mother returned sorry you the stuff so you could a had a Jesse out and sot There were other times Jesse wanted something Th were also things that he and there were emotional needed He was repeatedly with the m During these unstable there occurred an episode which was to be another shattering in an already broken No one but Jesse knows certainly what happened ul living with his though far too yoJo for the was trying to mother the disturbed JESSE WAS bouncing a ball in the no adult was in the room at the His little of toddler was on the When the baby's parents heard her they caire in and found her severely in Police were called to take the child to the but the injury caused Jesse said that his ball had bounced out of he leaped catch it above the forgetting the child lying When he came down his knee struck the baby in the According to Jesse's sister child's the examining physician said the explanation was compatible with the AT THE the was dismissed as Similar though usually less happen frequently in homes with many years when Jesse was in his worst the child's death was remembered and some persons proclaimed the child had been injured with guilty or has no way to defend himself on this Around this incident have grown an incredible number of Rumors describe the child as of various the injuries inflicted by various means down out a the extent of the injury even being reported as making the victim Most of this gossip is passed on as having come from person of in a position to These conflicting stories are the sort of that may be given credence by that juror A boy goes to |