The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1920-06-19
TENNESSEE JURY GIVES LIFE
SENTENCE FOR INCEST.
Man Found Guilty Of Attack
on Small Girl and Given
Heavy Penalty.
(Dy Joe l.. Tinsely
Special To The News.

Bristol. Tenn, June 10.-The trial
of Charlie Noe, white, who on Feb
21st. lured eleven year old Beatrice
Lindsay of this city to lonely spot
in the woods about one and a halt
miles from the city, and brutaIly as
saulted her. was brought to close
at Blountville, Tenn, Friday, May
2S after a hard fought legal battle
between the defense and prosecution
extending over period of three days
the defense trying to save the brute
from the electric chair while the pro-
secution eXerted every effort to give
him the extreme penalty
Because of the unusal character of
the crime and the youth of the VIC
tim the trial attracted widespread
attention throughout both Virginia
and Tennessee among both white and
Colored. At the preliminary hearing
given Noe Immediately after his arrest
and confinement he was indicted on
two counts--criminal assault upon an
eleven year old Colored girl and of
having carnal knowledge of a fe-
male under twelve years of age. Not
because of lack of evidence, but be-
cause of prejudiced jury and the
fact that white man must place
raping a Negro girl, Noe was freed
of the charge of rape, but was found
guilty of the charge in the second
count, with recommendation by that
notorious Jury of anything but death,
and was sentenced to life imprison-
ment by the Hon Judge d. A. De-
Vine
The conviction of Noe closes one of
the most startling trials ever wit
messed in. this section of the coun-
try. In hideousness 1t has no paral-
lei in the criminal history of the
county and and the fact that the
Attorney General, Prosecuting At
torney o. Il. Lovett. and the Judge
ly, and meted out to the brute his
reward for his crime, the people OF
Tennessee and Virginia will ever cher
ish the memory of these fearless men
Their actions in dealing with No'
and denouncing his dastardly act ha!
placed these men foremost In thu
ranks of those who place law, ordel
/ and justice above the plane of ha'
tired and prejudice. The conviction
of Charlie Noe is a complete triumph
| for iaw-loving and law-abiding citl.
zens who must be protected from
the menace of such inhuman Grim
inals,
Charlie Noe twenty-one years ole
and of sound mind and body and who
bears an unsavory reputation among
his own people is know to have at
tempted an outrage upon member
of his own race, but because or tht
| low tlde at Wnlcn MS InOrdiS liOWSt
! 1f he had any choose for his VIC
tim a helpless, eleven year old Col.
ored child upon which to inflict his
horrible and unspeakable crime: But
this only adds to the long list OF
crimes that are being, and have beer
! for long, long time, inflicted
upon our people. 1t establishes anoth-
er chapter in the criminal history OF
the white race and disproves tht
theory that this form of crime Il
confined to the Negro race.
A married man with wife anc
sick baby, this man, Noe, luree
this innocent helpless child away
| from the protection of home, or ever
| the possible assistance of a stranger
or a passerby and wreaked upon hel
| frail body his fiendish purpose, the
| like of which has no precedent II
the criminal history of the state.
The swift action of the court II
handing Noe his punishment meets tht
approval of the entire citizenship o.
Virginia and Tennessee white ane
| Colored.