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Killer Made Infamous by Dylan Is Dead

By Harry Kimball,  Newser Staff

Posted Jan 10, 2009 11:44 AM CST

(Newser) – William Zantzinger, the white Maryland tobacco farmer immortalized in a Bob Dylan song for the 1963 killing of a black Baltimore barmaid, has died. Zantzinger, inebriated from a night on the town, struck Hattie Carroll with a cane when she was slow bringing him a...   Read full story »

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