Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-11-18
negro ACQUITTED
OF CRIMINAL ASSAULT
Arrest of Anoter Negro During
Trial Saves Accused.
CONVICTION SEEMED CERTAIN
Not Until Confronted in Court by
Mrs. Camp Did Doubt of Identifi
cation Arise-Arrest of Another Ne.
gro Proved oIenn's innocence.

cation Arise-Arrest of Another Ne.
gro Proved oIenn's Innocence.
Atlanta, Nov. 17.-In just four an6
half minutes after the jury had re-
urea Joe Glenn, negro, was found
not guilty of the charge of Grimm
ally assaulting Mrs. ]. n. Camp.
Thus was brought to a close one
or the most remarkable cases of its
kind ever tried in Fulton-a case
which will long stand as a precedent
for other communities to follow: q
precedent which will doubtless dc
much to save the unlawful and un-
provoked shedding Of human blood.
On Nov. 13 Mrs. Camp, an emf
nently respectable white woman, was
assaulted by a negro who afterwards
tied leather thong around her
throat, almost choking her to death .
She did not know the name of her
assailant. In few hours Joe Glenn,
a negro farmer living some miles
distant, was arrested.
Mrs, Camp identified him as the
man, although her first description
did not coincide with the general ap-
pearance of the negro. On Nov. Is
Glenn was indicted by the grand jury
Luther ROsser, John McCleIland and
Charles Hopkins We're appointed coun-
sci to defend him Just one day la
tpp after th a fairoct of 'trio Ic bo ,,-o. u.
acquitted and the tolls began to fas-
ten themselves around another negro
viii Johnson, who was captured iii
remote section of the city while
Glenns trial was in progress.
In fact, up to the tin of the cap
ture of this latter negro it looked
very much as II Glenn would be con-
victed on a case OF mistaken identity
In fact, up to the time of the cap
ture of = this latter negro it looked
very much as if Glenn would be con-
victed on a case of mistaken identity.
The case was filled with every ele-
ment Of the dramatic. On the one
side was an ignorant negro, charged
with the mOst heinous crime which
a man can cOmmitt-a crime which
invariably arOusCs the bitterest pas
sion and resentment of the white race.
The victm of the assault had been
confronted with him Il few hours af-
ter the crime and declared him to be
the man. Again, while on the stand
telling her pitiful story, she had again
seen him suddenly brought into the
room. With every nerve of her
sensitive woman's nature suffering the
exquisite torture which only a woman
in her position could feel, she cried
OUT
You are the one-you! You low
down rascal. Oh, I'd like to kill you!
Yes, put on that old hat. You-you
you"
An then, words failing, she became
convulsiye with a paroxysm of yio-
lent weeping.
During this dramatic recital the
negro had remained mute and stond.
He knew his peril. Ignorant, uncouth
without power of finer feeling who
knows the agony of terror that must
have possessed his soul.
Minds that had been as blank sheets
of paper the moment before in re-
gard to the innocence or guilt of the
prisoner were suddenly electrified and
Surcharged with the significance Of
the wOman's statement.
Guilty" was the thought upper
most in the minds of all.
Thus the negro stood, practically
convicted before he had been tried,
convicted and pOwerless save for the
strong arm of the law and the cour-
age of his lawyers.
Attorney R0sser requested that the
jury be retired, and IN an impassion-
ed appeal asked that a mistrial be
ordered. He stated that If Mrs.
Camps denunciation be allowed his
usefulness in the case was at an end.
The case would be but a travesty
Mrs. Camp was the first witness.
She described the assault which had
taken place, and told of, the manner
in which the negro had attempted to
strangle her with a leather thong.
She was positive she could identify
the negro and described him as be-
ing black, white eyes, medium height
and as wearing a black slouch hat
which was turned up in front. On
the point of the negro's stature she
h,,t hor