Home Of Velma and Eddie West ID: 1882 | This file appears in: Velma West Early newspaper accounts of the crime centered on the unlikely marriage of a high spirited city girl and a straight laced boy from the country. According to the famous defense attorney Clarence Darrow, the murder resulted from Velma finally lashing out against her life in the ultra-moral, dull village of Perry. | Date: 1927 | Source: Cleveland State University Special Collections Download Original File SourceCleveland State University Special CollectionsDate1927 "Home Of Velma and Eddie West" appears in: Velma West