The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-06-23
MARCUS CARvEY IS
FOUND GUILTY ON
CHARGE OF FRAUD
u. N. l. A. Leader Loses His
Head and Abuses Judge,
Jury and Prosecutor
ASSOCIATES ARE ACQUITTED
Court Refuses Release on Bail;
Sentence to be Pronounced
Thursday

New York, June 20.-Marcus Gar
vey, advocate of the "Back to Africa"
movement and defender of the Ku
Klux Klan, jim-crowism, lynching,
and the white mans fiat of Negro
inferiority, was found guilty by a jury
before Judge Mack in the Federal
Court last night of using the mails
to defraud in connection with the sale
of stock of the Black Star Line, which
Garvey organized. The jury retired
at 1890 o'clock in the forenoon, and
the verdict was returned ten hours
later. Orlando M. Thompson, George
Tobias and Eli Garcia, who were
identified with the Garvey ventures
and had been indicted with him, were
acquitted.
Two indictments had been returned
against the four men, but Garvey was
found guilty of the third count in the
second indictment. This alleged that
he had continued to sell stock in the
Black Star Line company when he
knew it was insolvent. Garvey ad-
mitted this when he testified in his
own behalf. Three other indictments
had been dropped because Of the Gov
ernment's inability to get the persons
involved to testify in view Of The IN
timidation carried On ty the Garvey
crowd.
The delay in delivering the ver-
dict was due to the insistence CT tw"
jurors that a verdict Of gully be re-
turned against another OF TIE dc
PENDANTS. Eventually the other jIr-
ors satisfied them that all Garvey
employees had been mere rubber
stamps in the hands of an autocrat.
Garvey Loses His Head
Garvey made a demonstration in
the court room when he heard the
verdict. He violently abused the pros
ecutor and the jury and insinuated
that they might be forced to relent.
So violent was he that five United
States marshalls surrounded the u.
N. 1. A. "Moses" and led him away.
AS he passed Mrs. Garvey, ne fell
sobbing into her arms. ,
Prosecutor Mattuck, who handled
the case for the Government, made
the request that Garvey be held with
out bail after Garvey's white lawyer
whom he had summoned in toward
the end of his trial, had asked that he
be released on $1,000 bail under which
he was held after his indictment. He
branded Marcus Garvey a menace and
told the Court that evidence in his
possession showed that the African
Legion was supplied with guns and
ammunition and were continually
threatening the peace.
Following Excited
A crowd Of Garvcy fanatics, which
had been turned out of the court
room earlier in the day, had congre-
gated at the south side of the build
ing, and sent up a menacing murmer
when news of the verdict reached
them. Threats against persons con-
cerred in the trial were heard from
this crowd.
81 wish I had gone home today and
got my knife" screamed one of the
gentle lady fanatics, while others
tried to quiet her without much sue
cess, until two policemen came along
and the windy fanatics "folded their
tents like the Arabs and as silently
faded away"
Crowd at Liberty Hall
Up in Harlem, huge crowd was
waiting at Liberty Hall, West 138th
street, to receive the verdict. Few
of these sympathizers had any idea
that "Mister Garvey" could be con-
victed. Inoculated for several years
with mister Garvey's" greatness
chad not Garvey told them over and
over again how great man he was!)
they could not conceive of any power
on earth defying the mysteries OF
Africa" with which, they slyly TOLD
each other, Marcus Garvey was well
charmed and protected from the har-
vest of retribution due him for de.
frauding the widow and the father
less.
These fanatics had in their minds
vague ideas of a great torch light
procession through Harlem when news
came that the. jury had really found
Garvey guilty and that he was at
that moment lodged behind prison
bars. Sadly and silently these ex'
ceptional people, who dotted on being
stung by "Mister" Garvey, and those
who believed with the Medivals that
"the king can do no wrong" departed
homeward with the knowledge that
the widely heralded mysteries" has
proved impotent to prevent their MO
SeS from making Trip TO IHe IIoiH
ised Land" of Atlanta Pen. For tht
past three years they had scoffed at
and closed what little mind they hat
to the documented exposures carried
on by The Emancipator and The Cru
sader, and to the warnings OF Messr
Briggs. Domingo and other leaders O.
the African Blood Brotherhood tha
Marcus Garvey was prostituting tn
sacred Liberation Movement for sci
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