Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1923-06-23
MARCUS GARVEy CONVICTED IN n. Y,
FEDERAL JURY RETURNS VERDICT AFTER
TEN HOURS DEL|BERAT|ON At CONCLUSION
OF 4, LENGTHY AND SENSATIONAL TRIAL

Marcus Garvey Is convicted. Ellie
Garcia, Orlando Thompson ana
George Tobias, his codefendants arc
free.
Garvey was found guilty on the
thrd count of the second indictment
In that he used the mails in a conspi-
az: 20 defraud one Benny Danzig, 34
Wrs. l31s. street, New York City. The
letter offered for sale stock in the
Black Star Line, an alleged fratdu
leLl concern.
hus, after a most exciting trial
aid tire expenditure of millions OF
Iiiars on both sides, the Provisional
President Of Africa was convicted on
TIT strength OF single letter. DanZlg
railroad porter, had bought five
shares OF stock in the Black Star Line
New York, June ia new note
entered the trial of Marcus Garyey
yesterday. one more harmonious and
deeper than all the comic tooth, 81
versatile Marcus has beSn able to N
ject during the interminable weeks Of
his prominence. 1t came not from Mar
Gus at all. but from Henry Lincoln
Johnson, the benign, the patriarchal
ard altogether admirable counsel for
defendant, Elic Garcia. in the course
Of his summing up before the jury.
It was his great hour and he made
the most of it. He used such an easy.
confident flow of words, so Itch in
aljusion, so quantity humorous in In
tonation that Judge Mack was forced
to chuckle and the jury to forget they
had been sitting in their twelve seats
for several hundred inconsecutiye
hours.
Suddenly, Mr.. Johnson swept into a
passionate justification OF not onIy
the defendants but of his race. Tho
jury sat up. Even the dark gathering
in the rear of the court, which has
been noticeable only for its stolidity
and uniformity since the trial opened,
swayed with emotion. ,ar
DEPLORES STATUS OF NEGRO
Gentlemen" he cried, his voice vi
brating, you can't have an idea whal
it means to be Negro in these days
the ignominy Of it. You can't have!
If every Ngro could put every dime.
every penny, that he has earned into
tire sea, and if he might get in ex
SAhhh6S thC huoWlcuSe lIdI lie was
somebody, that he meant something
III this world, the respect of the
world. he would do it gladly. The
black man does not live. who does noI
hope that his children may be estab
lished in a settlN1 business, who does
not pray that this hideous curtain of
he'll and hate may some day be lifted
from his children. I hope it for my
children. So does every black man for
his"
Outside in City Hall Park band
was playing "The Star-Spangled Ban
ner" in honor of Flay Day and the
sound of hundreds of children sing
ing the national anthem came in
through the open indows.
Mr.. Johnson flattered his oppou
ent, Prosecutor Mattuck, with g. whole
string of djectives-"bright bril-
liant, shrewd, resourceful able" and
others. He quoted Shakespeare, Mltn
and the Iliad and by way of variety he
added some Negro stories in dialect.
He said that if the Black Star Lin,
had been able to float the Phyllis
Wheatley-the last ship Of the ill-fat
ed string the corporation would
have been flourishing now. He com
pared the Phyllis Wheatley and its re
lation to the line to a proverb about a
horseshoe nail (which ruined the shoe
WI ch ruined the foot, which killed
the horse"
WOULD HAVE BEEN IN AFRICA.
Why, IL the Phyllis Wheat1ey had
sailed tha seas. Josiah Cockburne and
Marcus Garvey would have been far
away over yonder in Africa enjoying
TIE tropical bree7e~." he exo1aines
and gave Judge Mack the opportunity
to observe that tropic breezes may be
found in New York Federal court.
room.
To the accompaniment of vigorous
h1nd clapping that made the walls
echo Mr.. Johnson dealth in stringent
fashion with the various sea captains
who had sailed under the Black Star