The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1907-01-25
On Little Georgia Wheel
er, Age Eleven Years.
SAM SWANSON (White)
Sam Swanson, Who Raped Little
Eleven-year-oId COIOred Girl,
Out on 81, 200 Bond.

Another white man has been ar
rested, charged with the dastardly
crime of criminally assaulting an in
nocent eleven-year old Negro girl.
Angry and determined Negroes have
been seen on the streets all day
Thursday and Friday, and at one time
during Thursday evening crowds were
very determined to find the assailant
This is the third case that has been
reported to the authorities within the
past five or six months, which does
not mean that more have not been
committed. 1t appears now to be very
dangerous for a Negro girl to be alone,
when white brutes are in the vicinity,
and none ever punished for their
crime.
Sam Swanson, a ruffian, in the i'm
age of man, who had a wife, is the
villain charged with the crime 1t
appears that the child-victim, little
Georgia Wheeler, eleven years old,
was employed at the boarding house,
No. lat Fourth avenue, North, to do
the light chores, and at this same
place, her assailant and his wife
boarded.
Little Georgia" as she is generally
called, reported to her father the act
of her moral murderer" and her fa-
ther at once reported the "nameless
crime of the brute" to the officers
Swanson was at once arrested and
taken before Justice Dodd, where it
appears he is allowed to go almost
scot-free, as his bond was fixed at
only one thousand dollars. Such an
outrage upon the children of any peo-
pie is enough to make strong men
much less angels weep. The ques-
ton has been asked, How long will
the officers of the law and the guar
dams of the sacred sanctity of homes
countenance these shameful crimes
or the part of brutes in the guise OF
men. A man has been turned loose
: who dares to step too far. There are
! some scoundrels who are not satisfied
I with the assaulting of our women, but
, are now turning their attention to-
j. ward the cradle-they will take our
I babes to satisfy their lust. o God of
+ Justice. how long will the authorities
, wink at such nefarious crime by al
> lowing such villains out on bond-and
\ bond that signifies nothing?
! Mr.. George Wheeler, the father OF
the child. and his friends, will see il
v there is Justice to be had and If crime
will be punished, when committed by
4 one who chances to be of the proud
Anglo-SaXon race.
It is a noticeable fact that when
o white man assaults a Negro woman
o or when he even is charged with TAX
ing the babes from the cradle, he
seems to get but little notice from the
reporters of the daily papers and those
who are supposed to hand out justice
l. The Banner and the American coulC
5, scarcely find place small enough IL
l. their papers to report the arrest. This
d is what appeared in the American Fri
t day:
"Sam Swanson, carpenter, ap
peared before Justice Dodd Wednes
day morning and was bound over t
the Criminal Court in the sum o
Is 81. 900. to answer a charge of crimina
l. assault. Swanson's victim is allege
is to be Georgia Wheeler an 11-year-ol
d colored girl. George Wheeler, fathe
}. of the girl, swore out the warrant. Tn
d assault is said to have been committe
d at lat Fourth avenue, North, wher
J., Swanson and wife boarded, the victir
er serving as house maid at this place
d, Bond was made by Swanson"
B, This could not be found unless on
R. would look among the reading adj
9, How different it would have been ha
t, the color of the persons in the ana
Nd been just the reverse.
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