The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1922-05-13

, serving a ten year sentence for an un-
natural crime, convicted upon Cora Lees
testimony. Her mother, now an inva-
lid, has turned her out of the parental
door-her kinspeople. and they are le-
gions, have threatened her life should
she return to her country; and thus the
sweet-faced girl is under the protecting
arm of the law, afraid to leave the
sheriff's home.
The story of Cora Lees change of
heart and bringing of the gang to JUS
tice will remain fresh in the memory
of Tate county. To hear Cora Lee tell
how she slipped away from her home
| in the hills in the dark hours of the
| night after a successful struggle foI
her virtue, with her own family in pur-
suit, attempting to stop her in her de-
| termination to appeal to the law, how
she found her way to the home of q
physician at Tyre, six miles from her
home, and there called the sheriff OF
, the county to come to her aid, reads like
me of Zane Grey's most thrilling cpl
| sodes. The sheriff and his deputies
| Immediately went to her aid, not only
protecting her but repaired to her home
and put several members of her family
under arrest. And then Cora Lea
way from their infiuence-told the Of
fcers of the crimes that were being
committed by her people and neighbors
a regular gang organization being per-
| fected.
These crimes ranged from murder. ar
son, bigamy and adultery to misdemea-
nors of every nature.
EXPOSED STILL LOCATION
Her own father was arrested first
| on charge of making whiskey.
Cora Lee told the officers where the
big still was hidden in the swamps of
the Tallahatchie river with only pig
path leading through the cane to it.
| right where the three counties of Tate
Marshall and Lafayette cornered. 1t
was operated in one county while and
then carried over into another.
! And then she told the officers where
her father kept the finished product Of
the still hid, under the cabbage rows
| in the garden; and the officers found
the still and the whiskey where Cora
Lee had told them it would be.
And then she told the officers that
two of her cousins, Waddie and Joe
Frazier and young man named MUIR
| ply, had killed a negro witness, who
was going to testify against them in
the Federal court at Oxford, and thrown
his body into the Tallahatchie river
| The officers found the dead body upon
dragging the river Her two cousins
broke Jail and escaped after being ar.
rested for this crime; Murphy is in jail
| and will be tried on charge of r1n.,r.
/ der.
She told the officers Of the breaking
into negro church of the commun,
ity and of theft of all the lamps anc
light fixtures by several Of her kins
people. She told where the lamps wers
hid. The sheriff found them at the place
designated. Two of these boys Clintor
Cash and Lawrence were sent to tn,
state penitentiary last week in the cir
cult court here on this charge.
UNCLE ALSO EXPOSED
Cora Lee told the officers about hel
uncle. Garland Frazier. justice Of tn,
peace Of the district where she lived
She said that her uncle had an interes
in the big still hid in the swamps ant
that he was paid his regular weekly di
vidends from the profits of the opera
tion. She told about his having car
ried away two jugs of fine home mad,
whiskey one Sunday afternoon from he
fathers house, and the magistrate wa,
convicted on this testimony by q jur,
and sentenced to 80 days in the count,
jail and $3.50 fine. -Four young meI
LOT the nsishboFhood escaped from th'