MISSISSIPPI JUDGE SCORES
SAVAGE TORTURE OF
CONDEMNED NEGROES
V A. A. C. P. Rushes Legal Aid To
Halt Hanging Of Three.
New York, Feb. 1.—In a strongly
worded dissenting opinion, Justice
Anderson of the Mississippi Supreme
Court has roundly condemned the con
viction of Henry Shields. Ed Brown
and Yank Ellington, three Negroes
accused of murder rig Raymond Ste
wart, a white farmer. They are sen
tenced to die February 8.
“Leaving ®ut the confessions, the
evidence was wholly insufficient to
sustain the convict on”. Judge Ander
sen declares, “the evidence showed
without any subt .antial conflict that
a: •- Hants were driven, to confess
their guilt by most brutal and tm
rnererfui .wn.pp.ngs and beatings at
the hands of persons who doubtless
thought they were guilty ■ -Wipe
cm these confession*, and the court
would haw been forced to direct a
verdict of not guilty. The court had
staring it in the face th-s incompe
tent testimony without which there
ccuid be no conviction. Must the
lives of the appellants be taken by the
law, because their counsel faded to
bring to th- attention of the court
this incompetent evidence? Are they
without remedy?
Cites Scottsboro Cases
Viewing ta s trial as a whole, it ap
pears to me that it is condemned by
the principles laid down by the Su
preme Court of the L'nited States in
the Scottsboro cases. Appellants were
denied due process—a fair and impar
tial tr.ai. They were represented by
Counsel who had neither time nor
opportunity to do their part. Due
process requires representation by
counsel, dither employed by the accus
ed or appointed by the court. The
court so held in the Alabama caees. .
“In some quarters there appears to
be very little regard for that provis
ion of the bill jf rights guaranteeing
persons charged with crime from be
ing forced to give evidence against
themselves (Section 26 of the Consti
tution. The pincers, the rack, the
hose, the third degree, or their equiva
lent. are still in use".
[tumor Woman in Case
Rumor has .t that Stewart was
having an affa r with a colored woman
whether agreeably or by force is not
known. Shields is said to have pro
tested against this affair.
Shields was arrested following the
death of Stewart and police staged the
usual subterfuge of “planting” a
bloody axe and clothing in his home.
Nothing forth, r was heard of these
articles after his arrest. They were
not introduced in ev.denee. Following
a severe beating at the hands of the
police. Shields "confessed" and impli
cated Brown and Ellington whom, he
said, offered him 312 to help them
eh! Stewart a out some money alleg
edly due them. The two men also
“confessed” after being savagely
beaten, A number of white men, in
cluding a minister, were then called
in to see that the confessions were
made “freely and voluntarily”.
There is no ether ev.denee against
the condemned men.
“Trial Record for Speed: ‘Defense’ A
Joke
Arrested and indicted five days af
ter the murder, the three men were
tried and convicted two days later.
Although four white lawyers were ap
pointed to defend th-*- Negroes, one
failed to show uy at the trial and a.t
o; ter failed te jvin .n the appeal to
the Supreme Court. The two who did
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act faded to object to the brutally ex
tracted “confessions” without which
the evidence was wholly insufficient
to conv ct. No witnesses were called
at the "trial".
N. A. A. C. P. Rushes to Men's
Defense
Immediate!;! upon having the case
brought to its attention, the Legal
Committee of the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored Peo
ple retained State Senator John A.
Clark of Jl ssissppi to prepare an ap
peal to the United States Supreme
Court. This action will automatically
tay the execution of the three men
on February 8.
Cff cial - of the Association assert
that th_s case, exposing as it does the
criminal maladministration of jus
tice in Mississippi the use of savage
methods >? forcing confessions and
the de-rial of due process of law, is a
most momentous and significant one
ir the struggle for Negro rights.
Contributions are urged to aid in the
three men’s defense.
FOUR NEGRO COLLEGES
AIDING .ANTI-LYNCH BILL
New York—Four leading Ne
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fight for the passage of the Cos
tig an-Wagner federal anti-Iynch
intr bill, according to Miss Kath
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Race Relations of the Federal
i ouncil of Churches of Christ of
America.
Students of Shaw university
have sent over 100 letters to Pre
sident Roosevelt, as have the stu
dents and faculty of Barber Scotia
college. Talladega college stu
dents have circulated a memorial
while the Howard University Stir
den; council of the College of
Liberal Arts’ has likewise taken
action.
"I am hoping” says. Miss
Gardner, "that this interest will
spread into ail the colleges and
that they will continue their bar
rage of letters and telegrams.
Miss Gardner complained some
time ago that 64 oer cent out of
65 of the heads of Negro colleges
had taken no action on the Fed
eral Council’s appeal to push ac
tion on the bill by petitioning
President Roosevelt nnd members
of the Senate and the House of
Representatives.
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RESEVERATIONS COMING IN
FOE SPINGAEN DINNEE
New York.—Reservations for
the dinner in honor of Authur B.
Spin gam for his 21 rears of serv
ice as chairman of the national
legal committee of the N. A. A. C.
P., are coming into the National
offiee, not only from New York,
City, but elsewhere. The dinner
will be held at the Hotel Lismore,
25-i W. Seven, ythird St., at 7
p. m., February 12.
James Weldon Johnson is chair
man of the dinner committee
which includes Dr. Will Alexan
der, Mary McLeod Bethune, Hom
er S. Brown. Harry T. Burleigh.
Senator Arthur Capper, W. P.
Dabney, Clarence Darrow Hays,
Jesse S. Hesisp. Charles H. Hous
ton. Richard B. Harrison, Arthur
Capper, W. P. Dabney, Ciarence
Darrow, Dr. W. E. *B. DuBois.
Feiix Frankfurter, Richard B.
Harrison, Arthur Garfield Hays.
Dr. Mordeeai W. Johnson
Secretary Haroki L. Iekes, Gov.
Herbert H. Lehman, Dr. William
Allan Neilson, Louts L. Residing.
William Rosenwaid, Dr. Emmett
J. Sect;, Judge Charles E. Toney,
William- Allen White.- -
Prominent Minister Arrested for
Fighting Discrimination
Clanton. Pa. — CNA) — Rev.
Y<*nn McFarland, James Hail and
Ai Martin, white, were arrested
here in the office of the princi
pal of the local high school for
demanding the abolition of dis'
crimination against Negro stu
dents. the arrested three were
part of a delegation of 60 Negro
and white students.
Several hundred students and
parents assembled in front of the
school in solidarity action with
the delegation. The demonstration
was organized by the Young
Communist League.
At a hearing the same day, the
Mayor attempted to split the
united front fight against jim
crow by freeing Rev. McFarland
while sentencing Ha:l and Mar
tin.
RACE RELATIONS MASS
MEETING THRONGS
BROADWAY THEATRE
Iowa Educator Delivers Stirring
Address
B1' Fritz Cansler
Denver, Colo., Feb. 8.—The largest
crowd in the history of the local Race
Relations Week celebrations which
have been sponsored by the local Com
mission for the pest ten years, heard
the eloquent Dr. George A. Steiner of
Grinnel College, Iowa last Sunday
night in the spacious auditorium of
the Broadway Theatre. Seldom in
recent years has the ancient edifice
witnessed a larger or more interested
gathering. The theatre was literally
filled from “pit to dome” with all
three floors crowded with eager lis
teners from the ret/ beginning of the
strains- “Carmen” played by the or
chestra of Manuel High School, to the
closing benediction recited by Rabbi
C. H. Kauvar of the local synagogue,
and the recessional “Marche Miiitaire”
played by the youthful musicians of
the high school band.
Dr. Vere V. Loper, chairman of the
Interracial Commission presided and
spoke briefly of the work of the or
ganization. The invocation was giv
er. by Rev. R. S. Brown, and the dou
ble quartet of the Immaculate Concep
tion Cathedral (Catholic) sang three
splendid numbers. The offertory
Spirituals rendered by the Treble Clef
Club, a group of women singers under
the direction of Mrs. Irene McWil
liams were among the most enjoyable
features of the program and won pro
longed applause from the large aud
iance. The Denver Consular corps
were the special guests and occupied
places in the boxes.
Dr. Edward A. Steiner, vetteran
professor of Grinnel College delivered
the principal address. A man of wide
experience, of ripe scholarship and of
broad human sympathies, Dr. Stein
er's remarks ran the whole gamut of
emotions from the gay witticisms
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with which he embellished his remark
able address, to the stern and uncom
promising' denunciation with which he
charterized the degradation and de
basement of personality through many
c-f the accepted practices inculcated in
American race and color prejudice.
Dr. Steiner scored with unmerciful
bitterness the inequalities in life im
posed on minority and defenseless
groups. He pictured in a drametis
and graphic way the wrongs inflicted
upon the Negro since his involuntary
seizure and importation into this
country under the cruel slave sys
tem of capture and transportation. He
called upon Americans to repent of
the sin of prejudice and grant to all of
her children an equal chance to live
and contribute to the making of a
new and better social order.
Discussion groups, further carrying
oat the Commission's plans for. the
observance of the week, met on.Mon-,
day and Tuesday at the downtown
YWCA, with a large and interested
attendance. Dr. Ben Cherrington of
the University of Denver, led the dis
cussion.
At Chappel House, Denver's Art
Museum on Monday night, another
large group of citizens gathered to
witness the exhibit which had been
prepared by the committee and tto
listen to a lecture on "The Art f tit:
Negro" by Mr. Watson Bidwell of the
Art Museum. The exhibit gathered
and circulated by the Harmon Founda
tion formed the nucleus of the exhibit j
which will be shown all week under i
the direction of the committee whose j
ihairman is Mrs. Geraldine Lkghtner.
The reading of Countee Cullen's
poems by Mrs. Wilda Dean was one |
of the most enjoyable features of j
M :*nday night's program. After giv
ing a brief history of the young poet’s
life, the reader gave with her delight
ful diction and well modulated voice a
number of Cullen’s poems expressive
of his life's philosophy and his genius ’
as a writer.
Other exercise* of the week which
was gmnerali i observed were pro
grams and addresses in schools and
colleges, with sermons and talks in
church and young people's groups in
all parts of the city.
Art Exhibit On Lynching
Opens In New York Feb. 15
New York.—An exhibit called
“'An-Art Commentary on Lynch*
i ins:,” will open February 15 at
the .Jacques Seligm.au Galleries, 3
East 51st S reef under the spon
sorship of- a group of distinguish
ed patrons of both races. It will
close March 2.
Included in the exhibit will be
oils, sculpture, black-and-white
and photograph a'! on the sub
ject of lynching A long list of
eoloned and white artists have
subin: ted p.te s for the exhibit,
including Hale Wood raff, E.
Campb. P, Thomas Ben
ton. John Stewar; Carry and Jul
ius Block.
Airs. Pearl S. Buck, famous
novelist, will speak at the pre~
view. The foreword for the cat
alog has been writ en by Sher
wood Anderson, well known
southern writer.
Among the patrons are; I>r.
and Mrs. Ernest Alexander. Dr.
and Mrs. Charles A. Beard, Step
hen Vincent Benet, Elmer A. Car
ter. Countee Cullen, Virginias
Dabney. Dorothy Canfield Fisher,
Marion Cuthbert. Hubert T. De
laney, George Gershwin. Zona
Gale, Senator and Mrs. Edward
P. Gostigan, Mrs. Bernard S.
Beutseh. Mrs. John Hammond,
Mr. and Mrs. BuPose Heyward,
Robert Bmchley, Fannie Hurst,
Rose McClendon, Dr. Allan Locke.
Mr. and Mrs. James Weldon
Johnson, George For. Milton,
Dorothy Parker. lion. Caroline
O’Day,-Dr. Charles Edward Rus
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Molly Picon, Mr. amd i!rs. Arthur
Spingam, J. E. Spin gam/ Amy
Spingarn, Dr. and Mrs. Louis T.
Wright, Mr. and Mrs. Harry B.
Wehle and Blanche Yurka.
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