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A Maryland socialite whose fatal beating of a black barmaid was recounted in a Bob Dylan protest song of the 1960s was buried Friday.

William Zantzinger, 69, died Jan. 3 and funeral services were held Friday, the Brinsfield-Echols Funeral Home said.

The tobacco farmer served six months for manslaughter in 1963 for striking a 51-year-old barmaid with his cane for taking too long to serve him a drink.

Hattie Carroll later died of a stroke. In the “Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll,” Dylan criticized different standards of justice meted out to whites and blacks.

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