Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1896-10-24
MORE ABOUT THAT TROUBLE.

Surprise is expressed on all sides that
such gross injustice should be visited
upon DANtEL NICHOLAS, SUSAN Brown,
EDWARD Brown and PEYroS Cox as
was shown in our issue Of the nth
inst
We are informed that officer w. I.
FOSTER. not only invaded the home of
Mr.. PEYroN Cox, intertupting him and
bis visitors, while at late breakfast,
but actually beat Mr.. Edward
BRowN's daughter with stick, tear
ing the clothes from her body and ex-
posing her person.
He arrested the lady who protested
ard the head of the house, Mr.. Cox
languishes in jail because he essayed
to defend woman.
Will the outrages perpetTated upon
our people never cease? viii the
Board of Police Commissioners fOrev-
err be blird to the outrageous capers of
one OF the officers?
Here are three men and one girl
sixteen years of age languishing in
jail, when they should be unmolested
and dnconfined.
Upon what testimony, pray could
Justice JOHN ]. CRUTcHFIELD have
fined these people $25 each and requir-
cd a security for twelve months of $500
each
Perhaps he did not have all of the
evidence before him. Perhaps he did
not know that officer FOSTER had HIM
self violated the law, in entering with
out a warrant the confines of citi-
zeu's home. Perhaps he did not know
that Mr.. FOSTER struck a woman
beat her with a stick. while she was in
a helpless, crying, pleading condition.
Perhaps he was not aware OF the fact
that this strong, brawny policeman
tore the clothes from her quivering
body. dragged her through the hall
way aud to the street after having
brutally assaulted her.
White men of Virginia. what think
We Of this ? Colored men of the Com
monwealth, what say you of the out
rage
Would you have done other than
PKYToN Cox did? Would you have
seen helpless maidenhood thus treated
without going to the rescue
We are sometimes led TO wonder
what some of these prejudiced white
men expect of us. We are led to pom
der whether they think that we will
eternally submit to such treatment.
We are free TO admit that the thugs,
the brutes in uniform are getting few
err each year that we live and that the
gentlemen are on the increase, but
nevertheless, this manifestation of
brutality stirs every spark of manhood
in our makeup and causes us to de
mand once more the exercise of JUS
tice.
officer w. T. Foster, you beat SUSAN
Brown, you outraged womsnhood, and
you have thereby merited the con-
tempt of not only colored men, but
white ones as well.
Sleep on PEYToN Cox, upon your
prison couch. They may incarcerate
you upon the eve OF an election and
cause your dependent family to suffer,
but,-a reckoning day is coming bye
and bye.
A thousand times would we rather
be you in your forlorn condition than
the brute in uniform who assaulted a
helpless maiden.
But God will bring all things right
in his own time. Liberal minded
white men are sympathizing with us
and many are being induced to espouse
our cause.
AS for us we shall plead your case AT
the bar of public opinion as long as
you are confined in the city Jail, and
its reverOerations will be heard long
after you have secured your release.
A coward would hardly assault a
woman: some brutes would hesitate
before they undertook the task.