The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1907-06-01
CAUCASIAN DEPRAviTY.

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those who hail from the sunny south
have, ever since emancipation, beer
appalled, by the deprayity of the Afro
American, and have endeavored by
such commemorate means as lynching
and cowhiding to bring him within the
pale of civilization.
The fact, however by no means i'm.
plies that the white brother himself
4 is absolutely faultless and his own
journals furnish abundant proof that
here we have another instance of the
pot calling the kettle black
! AS an interesting study in ethics.
we quote few samples from the jour
mails Of the day:
| RICHMOND, va-"Go6 told me to
James Pettus, a young white man. who
was arrested yesterday on a charge of
having killed Lizzie Allen, colored. and
of stabbing W. Smith. a plumber. with
Whom Pettus had been working.
BATAVIA. Ohio.-Charges of criminal
assault. filed bv Fern Corbin, aged four
teen, against Prof. Clarence Meeker, SUI
schools. have aroused educational and
social circles to fever heat
BALTIMORE. tMd.-An attempt to as
sault young white woman was made by
two white men about e-half mile from
Bengies Station.
kOkOMO Ind.-Dr. H. c. Ogle. a ply
sician. was arrested here today on
| charges made by Goldie Delmas aud Min
ME and Pearl Peters, aged 13 and IA.
RICHMOND T Walk Policeman Will
liam T. Gentry was arrested yesterday by
| Policemen Bryant and kellum upon
warrant charging him with criminal as
sault upon. Miss Josie Robertson a six
teen -year-Old girl
| DANVIILE. Ins-George W. Remission,
pastor of the First Congregational church
of South Danville, has been arrested on
the charge of gnistreating Florence Duns
| worth, 16 years old
BURLINGTON sVt.--Alfred Mahan,
aged %. is in jailseharged with assaulting
and numbering the four-year- old daugh-
ter Of his brother.
,HAGERsToWM, Md. -Joseph Novel;, a
blind pencil peddler. was found guilty of
assaulting Pearl sWeant, eleven years old,
who was employed to lead him around
MONTGOMERY. Ala.-AIiss Tura Ogle-
rnbhed nv als geed dgWn and nd
street within three blocks Of the state
capitol.
WASHINGTON. D. C.-Walter Boyce,
seventeen wears old, was arrested charged
| wears old, The police say Boyce confessed
that he. also committed an assault upon
Carrie Leavell a child Of tender years,
about three months ago. He also told
the police that he was responsible for the
| attempted assault on Mrs E. r. Lewis
the mother of Margaret Lewis. a few days
ago.
er was assaulted by masked white men
daughter: With drawn r;evovers the men
compelled the husband to get out Of bed
q hl 4 md,
RALEIGH. N. CDR D. S. Rowland
| was arrested today, charged with the
murder of his eleven -year-old son David
at Henderson. recently. to obtain insur-
Charles r. Strange. was also arrested
charged with being accessory to DIR. Row
land in causing the sudden death Of Mr..
| Strange in March
Phelix Keppler.z ALBERT Luckett and JOS
eph Soasky. whose ages range from six
teen to twenty years. were arrested.
| charged with assault On Florence Coch-
ran, aged thirteen years. AS Florence
| was returning to her home about nine
clock Saturday night she was accosted
bV the four young men near a stable at
s15 Ninth street. southeast She saws she
was picked up bodily and carried into the
stable where she was held until early
Sunday morning and subjected to indig-
| mites.
CHICAGO. Ill.-The 'gnooulight.' dance,
wherein all the lights go out except one
| a novelty. introduced recently in certain
dance halls-was described to Municipal
Court Judge Fake yesterday by a girl IS.
years old Of Austin.
HAGERSTOWfN. Md.-Wesley Kipe.
white, aged 16.s$Was convicted upon trial
before Justice Younkins at Sandy Hook,
Wing to criminaIy assault Mrs. Mahalaa
weeks ago sa' He was was sentenced t to the
/ house of correction for one year.
| D I'd yTo a d.,
uthers. a young woman Of about twenty
one wears. living with her parents here.
was the victim of an attempted ASA nit
Saturday night by a white man. She
dra eyed considerable distance managed to
frighten him offsbv arousing the residents
about the college by her screams
! ANNAPOLIS. y Md.-Fllsworth Golden.
lconvicted of an assault on Mrs. Blanche
! Davis. was sentenced. to five years in the
/ penitentiary.
/ CLIFTON FORCE, VIA j. Robin
son and ]. R. Simpson were given hear
!: on the charge of abducting the fourteen
/ Senr-olt daughter Of a Chesapeake and
Ohio conductor and OBTAINING her from
home all of Sunday night and part of
| Monday.
RALEIGH, N C.-samuel @Hellin a
white man of tbis city. connected with
the North Carolina Building and Supply
Company. was arrested and jailed today
on the charge of rape upon two white
girls named Cassie Rhodes aged fourteen
! wears. amt Florence Pierce, aged seven =
| teen Years. The girls were asleen at the
4 home Of p friend. Mrs. Cassie Ellington.
where HELM boards. and were awakened
by HELM S assault upon them
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS w. Va.
THE terrible ard uneyrected end of an
! elopement came last night. near Marlin
/ ton when two unknown men held ND the.
| clipping couple, and. after tying the man
I to a tree repeatedly assaulted the rros-
/ receive bride. Their victim a Miss Bird.
daughter of a. hotel KEEPER at Marlinton.
4 is in a critical condition today.
! NEW YORK-sI killed the poor little
/ girl! don't know why / did it Cow.
ering in his cell in the Long. Island city
soil TO-DAY Henry Becker. the farm hard
l tire and again spoke these words as he
reiterated his confession. of the terrible
ilfeIdt. in the dandelion fields near her
horne at E.lrnhurst L. I..fs !, II sll.4ss,
Now the foregoing instances do not
prove the Afro-American guiltless Of
many crimes charged against him. but
they do prove that he is not a sinner
above all men. The Chicago Moon
1 dance is in substance the Voodoo
i dance of Hayti and New Orleans. or
the altogether of the Pittsburgh mil
4 1ionaires, or the shawl dance" of Sa-.
lone. The free love cult Of the divin-
ity student and Miss Crosby could
s.soarc11v have hoon ma ra1 1nJod IN ~