The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1921-05-28

eases caused By drinking or women, and
petty theft.
Susceptibility Of the EsgrO 70 AIrestq
Negroes are more likely 20 be Ar.
rested on suspicion than white persons.
II you win ten me Why nee prejudice
exists in this world, I win ten you
why this is 50. / don I think all the
police are quite as careful in arresting
colored men as they are in arressine
white men / think they are apt to
hesitate a little longer when a white
man Is involved.
Discrimination In Court
tThere is another thing concerning
the cOlOred man on trial in the Criminal
Court that has to be kept in mind. It
is peculiar thing about human nature,
that no man wants to admit that he has
prejudiees. A man VIII say on the out
side that he doesn't like the Negro, or
doesn Z like this person or that person,
but you get him under oath in the jury
box and in my twelve years on the
bench have never known a juror to
admit that he was prejudieed against
any race or creed. 1t goes without say
ing that under such q state Of affair
you win probably get men on the juries
that try eolored men that have q leaning
against them. I would say that where
there is a eolored defendant and a white
prosecuting witness that there would
be grave danger that the jury might
uneonseiously favor the white side Of
the case. I viii say that some juriss
win convict q colored man with less
hesitation than they win convict q white
man on the same kind Of evidence. For
that reason in the cases in which q
eolored man is involved, L watch the
evidence like hawk.
Legal Representation for Negro Ds-
PENDANT
"The Negro usually hasn't the money
to employ proper attorneys-comPetsnt
attorneys. In two out Of three eases
tried before me in which there were
colored defendants, had to appoint at
torneys TO defend them appointed
whits attorneys because when I asked
them whom they wanted they told me
and appointed the one they asked and
made him serve.
Economic and Industrial Aspects Of
Negro Crime
"At one time that sat in the Grim
inal Court there were $50 old bail cases,
some of them or years Of age, pend
ing on the docket. I have no reeollee-
ton that any Of these cases involved
colored people. Now there is q reason
for that: the eolored defendant as q
rule is unable to give bail. These $50
cases were old bail cases, and therefore
il was natural enough that you would
not find eolored defendants even in this
large number Of cases. Ny experience
in the Criminal Court is that the eolored
defendant is usually unable to give bail
he has TO stay in Jail and therefore his
case is very quickly disposed Of by the
prosecutor. Defendants locked up are
usually tried frst.) The eolored man,
having less opportunities, is more apt to
be out Of work than the white map and
that is one possible reason for the large
number Of arrests Of eolored men I
would say that the eolored man is neees-
sarily more apt to be out Of work than
the white man. His sphere is very
limited"
In passing it might not be out Of
place to state that for more than II
years or before he was first elected TO
the Circuit Court bench Judge Seaman
has been q constant subscriber to this
paper and he is one Of our very warmest
friends in Chicago.
The writer has nothing whatever to
do, with any of those big leaders Of the
Republican party who for one reason or
another feel that It is their duty to
wage q fight against Judge Seaman;
that is their business and not ours.
As this newspaper is strictly indie
pendent in politics it has friends on the
Thompson Judicial ticket and on the
Independent judges ticket which It win
Loyalty support and as Judge Seaman
always tempers justice with mercy he
win march on to victory for tbs third |
time at the judicial election Monday,
June g.