INDICT THREE FOR BRUTAL
ITY TO PRISONERS
ued from Page 1)
ed, the indictment charges, were
Louis James Hatcher, a Negro whj
was handcuffed to the bars of his
cells and severely beaten with a
rubber hose; Ezekial Buchanan.
Curnel Jotte Towery, Alvil Lloyd
Stevens, Edgar Cullen Bryant, Sr ,
Edgar Cullen Bryant, Jr„ Lillie
May Hendon, James Martin and
Robert Lloyd Jr„ all Negroes; and
two white men, Readie Glenn Hu
guley and Willie Griggs.
The case wag presented to the
Grand Jury by Edward Burns Par
ker. U. S. Attorney for the Mid
dle District of Alabama and G.
Maynard Smith, Special Assistant
to the Attorney General in the Civ
il Rights Section of the Criminal
Division. f
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orney General in charge of the
Criminal Division .commenting on
the case, declared:
“A brutal killing of a Negro con
vict by the High Sheriff of Macon,
County .Alabama, was today label
ed by a Federal Grand Jury of Al
abama citizens as a Feedral crime.
The case was presented by an Ala
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ney Edward Burns Parker and a
lawyer from the Department G.
Maynard Smith, who was formerly
City Solicitor of Cairo, Georgia.
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pervision of another Alabama law
yer, the Judge of the eFderal Dis
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and southern lawyers brought this
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GOVERNMENT CLEARS TWO
IN LYNCHING CASE
3 OTHER FACE CONVICTION
(Continued from page 1)
iel Shotts, clerk.
The remaining three white men
who faced penalties of 10 year3‘
imprisonment each and $5,000 fin
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es (if convicted included Luther
Holder, deputy sheriff and jailer
in Jones county wnere the lynch
ing occurred; Barney Jones, fac
tory worker and Allen Pryor, also
a factory worker, whose signed
confession as to his part in the
atrocity was admitted as evidence
over the protests of defense coun
sel. Pryor is a relative of the
white farmer for whose death
Wash was convicted.
Immediately after Johnson uni
Shotts were freed, defense la wye? s
moved for directed verdicts of ac
quittal for the others on the
grounds of [insufficiency of govern
ment evidence. Their motion was
denied. As the prosecution had
completed its case, defense testi
mony began.
The government gave no testi
mony against the two freed men
and also failed to Use some of its
witnesses including a Negro con
vict who was an inmate of the jail
when the mob entered. In some
cases witnesses showed extreme
reluctance to testify against the
defendants.
Damaging evidence against Pry
or and Jones was given by Sheriff
J. Press Reddock of Jones county
who identified them as members of
the mob which forced its way into
the jail, and against Holder, the
jailer, who failed to follow orders
laid down by Reddock in the event
a lynching attempt was made.
The sheriff, who testified Tues
day, told of being summoned to the
jil at one a. m. on the day after
Wash's conviction last Oct. 14 and
of finding a crowd gathered about
the locked door.
“I didn’t tell Holder to give the
keys up,” Reddock testified, "and
I was pleading and begging the
crowd for their children and fam
ilies. I told them about my posi
tion as sheriff, how I might be
sued on my bond, how 1 was liable
to lose my job. They said that it
I lost my job they would get me
another.”
Reddock said that Pryor, carry
ing a pick-axe, but not <in a threat
ening manner, laid his hand “gen
tly on my shoulder” and assured
him “I’m not going to strike you.
Just don’t be a damned fool; give
us the keys.”
He testified that after the lynch
ing he made a “thorough investi
gation” but did not arrest Pryor
because he couldn’t find him. No
state indictments were returned.
Reddock said he surrendered his
rifle to a deputy who came from
the jail to receive St when “some
body” in the crowd asked him to
give it up because “they” wanted
to talk to him. The defense, in
J cross examination, endeavored to
1 establish that the reason Deputy
1 Sheriff Holder didn’t lock himself
jin the jail, behind the steel door,
j was that he was afraid of an at
| tack in a vestibule from his office
| to the door. The jail, it appeared
was in darkness during the attack.
Not a shot was fired, the sher
iff conceded, nor did he observe
anyone was armed. He said, in
effect, he didn’t see the prisoner
taken from the jail but estimated
he must have been removed an
hour or more after his arrival on
the scene. The next time he saw
Wash, Reddock said, he was hang
ing from a bridge. He identified
a picture of it.
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Another early witness, Circuit
Judge Burkett Collins, who presid
ed at the Wash trial for murder,
testified that Reddock telephoned
him that a mob had surrounded
the jail. The juge, who said he
hadn't anticipated trouble although
the prisoner had been confined for
safe keeping at a jail in Jackson,
Msis., prior to the trial, said he
urged the sheriff not to permit the
mob to get the keys and that he
telephoned Gov. Paul B. Johnson
for aid, which was sent at once in
form of national guardsmen who
arrived too late.
Judge Collins, telling of appris
ing the governor of the lynch mob,
said that Gov. Johnson, in promis
ing aid, said: “For God's sake don’t
jlet that happen.”
Pryor’s signed statement admit
ting he was a member of the mob
which stormed the jail and took
Wash and then rode in the car to
a nearby bridge where he was
hanged, was presented during the
testimony of John L. Sullivan,
special agent of the Federal Bur
eau of Investigation. Mr. Sulli
\ran, ace G-man of the Mississippi
office, was corrobated by Otis Bras
hier of the New Orleans office, in
his testimony that Pryor gave th“
statement voluntarily and without
promise of reward.
In the staement .dated Nov. 25,
1942, Pryor admitted going to Lau
rel from his hom near town the
night of the lynching “to see what
was going to happen to Wash.”
This was prior to the lynching, but
earlier 'in the same night when the
victim was taken from the jail.
“I figured that sometihng was
going to happen,” the statement
recited.
Pryor’s statenant asserted he
returned to his home near Shady
Grove and found about 50 men at
a nearby store. He said he recog
nized fHillard H. Welborn, brother
of the slain white farmer, in the
group, and that they agreed to
meet near the Jones county jail
in Laurel “before taking Wash out
of the jail.”
Pryor said he did not remember
with whom he drove to Laurel.
‘‘We surrounded the jaSl about
11:30 pm.,” the statedment said.
“Sheriff J. Press Reddock of Jon
es county arrived at the jail about 1
11:45 pm. There were about 100
men around the jail at this time.
“I helped pull the screen off the
window located on the right side
of the door to the front entrance
of the jail,” Pryor’s statement con
tinued. “I said to the men that
the jailer’s (Holder) wife and child
ren may be in this room so let’s
try some other entrance.
“I pulled the screen open with a
pi ckaxe that leads into the main
entrance of the jail. About 15 men
came in ^ith me. I don’t remem
ber how the jail door was opentd
leading into the prisoner’s quar
ters on the second floor. I went
up the stairs to the cell where
Wash was a prisoner and with
several other men whose names I
can’t recall, took Wash out of this
jail.
“We placed him (Wash) in a *ar
I don’t know whose car. I drove
In the car that Wash was in. Wash
was sitting in the front seat and
1 was sitting in the back seat.
‘‘We drove out to Welborn’s
bridge located about four miles
north of Shady Grove on the Moss
ViHe road.
“We arrived at the bridge be
tween 12:30 and 1:00 am. and park
ed the car on the far side of the
bridge. I did not put the rope a
round Wash's neck nor heave him
over the bridge. I don’t know who
did the actual hanging. Some one
said “It’s all over.” So I caught a
ride and came home. I don’t know
wtth whom I rode.”
Pryor’s statement contradicted
earlier testimony of the two depu
ty sheriffs in the jail the night of
the lynching with Deputy Sheriff
Holder that members of the mob
were armed.
“I saw no guns in thSs crowd at
this jail at any time,” Pryor's
statement declared. “The only
gun there was held by Sheriff Red
dock and it was a .22 calibre rifle.”
Only one Negro witness was used
by the government before the jury
of native Misiisaippians, although
several had been called. This N •
gro had been a prisoner in the cell
next to Wash’s at the time of che
lynching. It was, it developed,
“as dark as midnight in the dung
eon” and the witness, Mack Lewis,
was prostrate in his cell. He did
not know “who the gentlemen
were” who stormed the jail but, he
testified, he heard someone ask
Wash if he was “sorry” he did and
he said “yes.”
Lewis testiflied that Wash was
then asked by the mob if he want
ed to say anything.
“He said ‘no’ but he had a dollar
and he wanted someone to give
that to his babies.”
Then barefooted and bareheaded,
after the mob had informed Wash
he didn’t nee shoes, he was taken
away, aceoring to Lewis’ testi
mony.
The government succeeded in es
tablishing through testimony of
Louis L. Welch (chief deputy sher
iff of Jones county ,and Laurel po
lice .that it had been agreed that
if a mob came for Wash. Ja/iJer
Holder would lock the big steel
“mob-proof” door from the inside,
locking himself in, and had bor
rowed a tear gas gun from the po
lice department. As is known,
such precautions were disregarded.
Welch said that even before
Wash’s one-day trial three mens
asked him to surrender the prison
er but he refused. He claimed he
didn’t know who they were and on
cross examination said he deemed
them jocular. But on his direct
examination he testified he inform
ed Holder of their request with
the result the plan was agreed on.
He didn’t know why, he said, it
wasn’t carried out. The defense,
on cross examination, drew from
'the deputy the statement that the
“dictates of humanity” might pre
clude use of the tear gas gun be
cause it might affect the prisoners
in jail.
The police officers were used to
confirm the lending of the tear gas
gun to Holder and to point out that
its affects are temporary and Us
ually confined to the direction in
which the shell is discharged. Two
special deputies, in the jafol with
Holder when the mob arrived, add
ed details to previous accounts of
the scene. Both said the crowd
thrust pistols against Holder in,
demanding entrance, although Pry
or’s statement to the FBI was to
the effect, he observed no weapons.
The government contends ,jn ef
fect, the jailer afforded tacit con
nivance an dwas persuaded to re
lease the prisoner.
1 One of the special deputies, John
Hilton, said he was so excited
when the mob rushed in an ante
room that he gave the keys to Hoi
der because “I didn't want them.”
He was vague about what happen
ed after that but he said the mob
played flashlights on them, grabb
ed them both, jammed pistols into
Holder’s side and pushed him in
front of them. He didn’t see what
happened when the crowd arrived
at the steel doors.
“They called ‘All right, stay
where you are. We’ve got you.' ”
Hilton said, “and there was noth
ing friendly about it. I w-as excit
ed and scared.”
“The other special deputy who
was in the jail, I. O. Fowler, testi
fied Holder unlocked the steel door
after the mob threatened him with
pistols and later went to the up
stairs cells, where the Negroes
were kept, and told the other pris
oners to “lay still.” aidding Wash,
“they have come after you.”
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