{"id":4805,"date":"1962-11-17T19:43:08","date_gmt":"1962-11-17T18:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oreneta.com\/libro-verde\/?p=4805"},"modified":"1962-11-17T19:43:08","modified_gmt":"1962-11-17T18:43:08","slug":"sentencia-en-el-crimen-de-los-existencialistas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oreneta.com\/libro-verde\/1962\/11\/17\/4805\/","title":{"rendered":"Crimen de los Existencialistas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Americans Sentenced in Spain<\/p>\n<p>BARCELONA, Spain (AP) &#8211; A Spanish civil court sentenced four Americans, a Spanish woman and a British girl to long prison terms today [1964\/03\/16] for the robbery-murder of a Barcelona furniture dealer.<\/p>\n<p>THE SENTENCES were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>James Bell Wagner, 23, of Union Beach, N.J., 30 years;<\/li>\n<li>Mrs. Maria del Pilar Alfaro Velasco, 32, Spanish mother of two daughters, 23 years;<\/li>\n<li>John Joseph Hand, 40, Southfield, Mich., and James Stephen Johnston, 30, Bluejacket, Okla., 21 years each;<\/li>\n<li>Mrs. Nancy Karen Hand, 25, Detroit, Mich., 12 years and one day.<\/li>\n<li>Joan Douglas Bryder [Bryden?], 22, a British librarian, 6 years. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The prosecution had asked the death penalty for Wagner and the Spanish woman, 20 years for Hand and Johnston, 12 years for Mrs. Hand and six years for Miss Bryder.<\/p>\n<p>Court attaches said the prison terms would be cut at least in half by an amnesty which Generalissimo Franco ordered upon the election of Pope Paul VI and a second amnesty expected April 1 in connection with the 25th anniversary of the end of the Spanish Civil War.<\/p>\n<p>The six prisoners were arrested after the slaying Nov. 17, 1962, of Francisco Robirosa, 50, in his shop. The crime netted only $33 in loot.<\/p>\n<p>Wagner admitted he entered Robirosa&#8217;s shop to rob the man. The prosecution contended the Spanish woman planned the crime and the others were accomplices.<\/p>\n<p>BECAUSE OF THE defendants&#8217; admissions of illict relations, of the use of drugs, and of other activities, the case was called by Spanish newsmen \u00abThe Trial of the Existentialists.\u00bb<\/p>\n<p>The prosecutor described all six defendants as drifters who lived by their wits.<\/p>\n<p>Wagner, a deserter from a U.S. Army Signal Corps battalion in Germany, and petite Maria del Pilar Alfaro escaped the death sentence &#8211; and execution by Spain&#8217;s garrote &#8211; because there was no proof of premedidation in Robirosa&#8217;s murder, the court indicated.<\/p>\n<p>More than 1,500 persons jammed the old provincial courtroom to witness the sentencing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Americans Sentenced in Spain BARCELONA, Spain (AP) &#8211; A Spanish civil court sentenced four Americans, a Spanish woman and a British girl to long prison terms today [1964\/03\/16] for the robbery-murder of a Barcelona furniture dealer. THE SENTENCES were: James Bell Wagner, 23, of Union Beach, N.J., 30 years; Mrs. Maria del Pilar Alfaro Velasco, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[645],"tags":[994,1103,1735,1955,1976,2017,2175,2264,2366,2515,2666,2667,2675,3535,3746,4034,4182],"class_list":["post-4805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-evening-independent","tag-asesinato","tag-barcelona","tag-derecho-publico","tag-espana","tag-estados-unidos","tag-existencialismo","tag-francisco-franco","tag-garrote-vil","tag-guerra-civil-espanola","tag-ibiza","tag-jazz","tag-jazz-en-espana","tag-jean-paul-sartre","tag-pablo-vi","tag-plaza-real","tag-robo","tag-sexo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oreneta.com\/libro-verde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oreneta.com\/libro-verde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oreneta.com\/libro-verde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oreneta.com\/libro-verde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oreneta.com\/libro-verde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oreneta.com\/libro-verde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oreneta.com\/libro-verde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oreneta.com\/libro-verde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oreneta.com\/libro-verde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}