Zantzinger was convicted of manslaughter, fined $500 and given a six-month sentence. He was allowed to start his sentence with a two-week delay so he could harvest his tobacco crop. He served his sentence in the Washington County jail, working in its kitchen, and was released in March 1964.
The death of the hotel worker reverberated around Baltimore's black community.
"There is something wrong with this city," said the Rev. Thomas C. Jackson in his sermon at Gillis Memorial Church the Sunday after Carroll's death. "There is something wrong with this city when a white man can beat a colored woman to death and no one raises a hand to stop him."
Some 800 mourners filled her church for a funeral held later that month.
News accounts of the period said that Zantzinger had been seen drinking with his wife, Jane Duvall Zantzinger, at a pre-ball dinner at the Eager House restaurant in Mount Vernon. They said he had two double bourbons and a steak dinner.
While dining at the Eager House before going to the Emerson, Zantzinger began striking waitresses with his cane.
"I'd been smacking - tapping - waitresses on the tail, and they didn't say anything. I was just playing," Zantzinger told the jury in Hagerstown.
"I had no other purpose than to have a good time," he said. "The last thing I intended was to harm or injure anyone. I never even thought about it."
Baltimore State's Attorney William J. O'Donnell asked Zantzinger if he had been drinking heavily and said, "You wouldn't know whether you hit anyone or not."
"No sir," Zantzinger replied.
Poole said his father, who died in 2005, was "terribly upset with the sentence" because of "Zantzinger's cavalier attitude" throughout the trial.
Zantzinger made news again in 1991 when he charged rent for ramshackle properties he no longer owned. Charles County State's Attorney Leonard Collins charged him with one count of unfair and deceptive trade practices, accusing Zantzinger of making "false and misleading oral and written statements" in his rental arrangement with a couple who formerly lived in Patuxent Woods, a community of houses without indoor plumbing.
Zantzinger owned Patuxent Woods properties until May 1986, when the county foreclosed on the half-dozen houses because of his failure to pay more than $18,000 in property taxes and penalties. Court documents said he continued to charge residents rent, sometimes taking them to court when payments were overdue, according to court records.
In 1992, he was sentenced to 18 months in the Charles County jail and fined $50,000 for collecting rent on the shacks he no longer owned. He was also sentenced to 2,400 hours of community service to local low-income housing groups.
"Each can benefit from your expertise and your abilities," Judge Steven I. Platt said in 1992.
For years, Zantzinger declined to answer questions about Dylan's song, but he told Dylan biographer Howard Sounes in 2001: "He's just a scum bag of the earth. I should have sued him and put him in jail. [The song is] a total lie."
Reached at her Baltimore home yesterday, Margaret C. Turner, Hattie Carroll's sister and a poet, declined to comment.
"It's been a long journey since that terrible evening, and hopefully that sort of thing will never, ever happen again," the Rev. Marion C. Bascom, a civil rights activist and retired pastor of Douglas Memorial Community Church, said yesterday.
