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"My Life
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Caryl
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By CAMERON SHIPP
ON the hot edge of California's Mojave
Desert, in a small town where neigh
bors seldom bother a newcomer with ques
tions, lives a young woman who does not
dare reveal her identity.
She dreads being discovered and hounded.
She fears most of all that her three children
might be hurt and their lives blighted by
the sickening whisper of scandaL
Call her Barbara Black because we need
to call her something that does not remotely
suggest her real name. She is not a criminal.
But she is as frightened as one.
Barbara Black was the teen-age wife of
Caryl Chessman, who was executed in the
gas chamber at San Quentin on May 2.
Chessman had been convicted on 17 counts
of violence, including kidnaping with bodily
harm, and his 12-year wait on Death Row
stirred up a world-wide controversy over
the merits of capital punishment.
Barbara and I met furtively in Victor
ville, Calif. She obviously does not want
publicity, but she consented to this exclu
sive interview for family weekly for a
sound reason: she hopes teen-age girls and
their parents will read her story and draw
some conclusions.
She was nervous, evasive now and then
(but only in the area of identification), and
at first she was afraid of me. For obvious
reasons, I cannot describe her precisely, but
this much is fair: she is 35 years old, a
full-figured, strong young woman; her hair
is turning gray, and she wears no make-up.
She is anything but the hackneyed picture
of a criminal's moll I had anticipated.
Before the blind date with Chessman in
Glendale, Calif., that started it all, Barbara
was an average, reasonably bright kid at
tending high school. She did not run with
a rough crowd, and she could well have
been your neighbor's daughter.
What was Caryl Chessman really like to
this woman who was his wife?
Family Weekly, August 14, I960
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PHOTOGRAPH BY LEWIS LONG
We started at the very beginning.
Barbara was 15 when she met Chessman
in 1940. The blind date was arranged by a
girl friend whose name she can't remember.
It was a double date, and the party of four
just drove around, had a hamburger and a
coke, and went home.
"He seemed shy," she said. "He never was
brash with me. Hardly said anything that
first date. He didn't even try to neck.
. "He was 19 then, had been arrested for
theft and sent to a road camp, but I didn't
know this. Nobody told me.
"We had regular dates after that. He
wasn't shy after he got to know you. He
had lots of personality. I thought he was
'wild' but that he would settle down.
"His crowd that I began to be part of was
exciting. They never told me what they
were doing when I wasn't with them.
"I soon found out how conceited Caryl
was. He was terribly arrogant. He had read
more and knew more than the rest. When
he knew you, he talked big. His father was
a drifter, out of work most of the time, and
his mother was a cripple in a wheel chair,
so he had nothing at home. He was expelled
from school for smoking all the time and
for talking back when they caught him."
Why did she marry him? 4
"I didn't know much. I was lonely. My
mother-died when I was 12. I was allowed
to do as I pleased, come home when I
pleased. My father and I got along, but I
was lonely and unsupervised. I really don't
know what I saw in Chessman. The main
thing is, I guess, that I felt unwanted, and
he paid attention to me."
Thirty days after the blind date, they ran
off to Las Vegas and were married by
a justice of the peace. Barbara lied about
her age. They returned to Glendale to live
with her father, then with Caryl's parents.
She doesn't remember how they expected
J POSED BY MODELS
to support themselves. Chessman never had
a job of any kind, so she had to work.
She anticipated my next question.
"I don't know whether he was guilty of
those crimes or not, but I can't believe it."
Barbara doesn't try to analyze Caryl
Chessman psychologically. He had no pe
culiar habits or aggressions that she can
identify except arrogance, hatred of au
thority, and a passion for tidiness. He be
came -an expert typist and stenographer in
high school. Unfortunately, the only use he
made of his skills was to write legal briefs
and four books while in prison. He was also
a brilliant self-taught lawyer.
Barbara first learned that her husband
was a criminal at 2 o'clock one morning
when Chessman awakened her and dumped
$400 in bills and silver on their bed.
"Look what I got," he exclaimed. "Good
work a gas station and two liquor stores!"
"I'd suspected for some time what he was
doing," Barbara said, "but I hadn't seen it
and I didn't want to believe it. I protested,
but I knew it wouldn't do any good. Caryl
laughed at me and fingered the money. I
don't know where it went He spent it all."
Almost immediately after that, Chess
man came home late one night driving
a Glendale police car. Behind him, Barbara
remembers, was a Buick driven by another
member of Chessman's crowd.
"Got to ditch this car," he told her.
"Then he kissed me and said, 'If this thing
cools off, okay. If not, I'll see you in jail!' "
Chessman roared off in the night The
police caught him easily. In every instance,
he was a bungling criminal, as, if he had
planned to get caught.
It was the last time Barbara saw him,
except in prison. They had lived together
as man and wife only six months but re
mained married for four years until 1945.
It was after he fled from the model "open
The woman who married
the notorious convict as a
teen-ager tells
her story in the hope that
it will serve as
an example and a lesson to
today's young girls
prison" at Chino, where convicts were on
their honor, that the "Red Light Bandit"
atrocities were committed for which he was
eventually convicted and sent to a death
cell at San Quentin in July, 1948.
"I was divorced, remarried, and 1,000
miles away when that happened," Barbara
Black points out "The story that we had
a daughter, now 17 years old, is not true.
We never had a child."
(The story goes that Chessman died with
out revealing the name of the real "Red
Light Bandit" for fear of reprisals against
his 17-year-old daughter.)
OF course, I won't say there is no
such daughter," Barbara said. "But
Chessman would have to have been mar
ried to someone else before he married me,
and the daughter would be older than 17.
, "Yes, he wrote to me when he was on
Death Row, sometimes twice a week. He
never wrote me love letters. They were al
ways strictly matter-of-fact. And they
always had the same bragging, confident
tone. My husband and I have the letters
hidden away, and we'll never show them
to anybody.
"I can't really explain him. And I'm still
not certain why I was so attracted to him.
Anyhow, it all seems such a long time ago."
Barbara heard the news of Chessman's
death on the radio while she was at work.
"He didn't try to contact me at the last.
I didn't send any message, either."
The one woman Chessman appeared to
love plainly can't attempt to explain him.
She wants to forget about Chessman and
be forgotten herself.
"Teen-age marriages may not all be
wrong, but they shouldn't be hasty, with
out giving yourselves a chance to know
each other a long time. I was allowed too
much freedom. Kids need standards. There
was no religious guidance. I should have
gone to church, and I needed a home life
and guidance. It's the same story, over and
over again. I knew what he was like, but I
thought I could change him. How long have
girls been saying that? You can't change
them. And the fellow I married turned out
to be Caryl Chessman."
Barbara looked at her watch, said good
bye, and left quickly to pick up one of her
children at school.
Family Weekly, August 14, 1960
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