Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1929-10-12
ANOTHER OUTRAGE

Are we drifting into another trag-
edv? Are any more lives of innocent
colored people to be sacrificed, while
the lawless, irresponsible people of
our own race remain alive? Let us
soc: Deputy Constable Dave Marsh
fwhite) went to S12 N. Fourth St..
n levy on some furniture, which had
been sold to- colored woman by the
great S. P. Dowdy Furniture Com
many.
When the colored woman defaulted
:" the payments, as per contract, there
was nothing else for the furniture
company to do, but to turn the &C
count over to the High Constable,
mho High Constable had aught else
- do but to turn It over to his dep
',lv and the deputy was within his
.,'~hts to try and enforce the levy.
When he was ordered from the prem
'-os he rightly left and appealed to
4ha Police Department to aid in en-
fn~"ine the levy.
So much for that. A little COM
..,nn-sense would have saved an en-
Norrassing situation. When the order
,-.a~t in at the Second Police Station,
evidently conditions were not consid-
o~od and the worst police officer in the
--.orld. so far as his antipathy to Ne
~~oes is concerned was given the
o~der. We refer to the impulsive'
'0hn'l in china shop" "knock you out
erst and enquire about the facts at
towards" W. B. Burroughs.
He is built for dealing with a
rnuph-house. "knock down and drag
vou out" crowd and not for attention
~ \ respectable neighborhood. What
hanpened? Inside of the house was
a nervous, excitable colored woman,
al alone and seeing white man
knocking at the door and insisting
mon entering without reading the
levy she decided to try and brighten
him away. Deputy Constable Marsh
acted in gentlemanly way. 1t was
none of ''his funerap and he declined
TO "ride in the procession" He
awaited the action of the officers OF
-r'v-rl
the law.
Officer Burroughs pursued m"
"blood and thunder tactics of The F"~
West" A police patrol was BROUGHT
to the rear of the property. He
broke in the door. knocked IN the Gun
which he called an automatic, not an
empty automatic. carried Eugan'a
White to the police patrol and admit
ted that she had been beaten. So ia"
as we have been able to ascertain. this
is a respectable family living in re-
spectacle neighborhood.
We learn that this furniture was
purchased by Eugenia Whites moth
err, who died few months ago. Her
sister is wife of w. H. Harris. who
is chef for the President of the c. 4
o. R. R. Company. The girl is only
twenty years of age and knows no
law, but was simply resisting the en-
trance of a white man into her home
when no one was in the house but
herself, her other sister being absent.
If other single colored women would
imbibe the same spirit, not meaning
that this particular white mans ad-
vances were improper, we would have
fewer half-white children in this neck
of the woods, and we would not be
puzzled at practically every corner to
tell (which from tother" Viewed
from any angle, this happening is in
the nature of an outrage.
Here is a young colored girl alone
in her own home without protection.
A white man in citizens clothes at
tempts to force an entrance. She or
ders him away. Another comes in off
GERS clothes and attempts to enter,
breaking in the door. She has an
empty revolver and when this does
not serve its purpose, she uses bot
tie, defending herself within the con-
fines of her own home. The police or
at least one of them thinks she must
be crazy. To our mind, after listen
ing to her defense in the Police Court,