Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1929-05-25
THE PREACHER AND THE BIBLE


match. in it's issue of the 1st instant
published the following:
If Obscene Texts Are in the bible
They're Lawful
There NAV be obscene passages IN
the Bible. but the public reading OF
i does not constitute violation OF
tha law. Justice T. Gray Haddon
ruled Yesterday in Police Court.
After Policeman G. W. Burruss
recited that he had arrested q. A.
Sirmons. elderly Negro, for using
had language and, worse-trom the
oricer's Notwithstanding to de-
sis- when ordered by Burruss to do
CT Simmons unfolded Bible, placed
Il on the Judges desk, and said:
ssYour Honor, l took my text from
tha 22nd chapter of Revelations" :,
The Judge pondered over the gooo
hook. read the verses in question:
and dismissed the case.
@Tf a man reads a Bible and m
decency is there, / can't DO anyt ttThs
about it." the court stated; ne
chief of police, who issued the per
init. has discretion in the NATTER ou'
nv hands are tea. r,os
The Police Court record for tues
dav. April 80, 1929, showed the 1oi-
Towing eHS Simmons c. Sc Preacher,
Vast Indies 1913 Turpin ST. on
warrant. Did unlawfully be olsor-
derlv in the public street. ~
Wit. w. B. Burroughs, A brlcAe['
The following is an extract from
4ho rocords Of the Hastings Court OF
this city:
Tho Grand Jurors of the Common
o LII of Virginia in and for tne
W. VIZ, If the City Of Richmond, ouiS
s go to and now attending salo
81 ON their oaths present, thaV
O0 WAITER B. BURROUGHS 4,o
~ MD dav of August, IN the
Oh 90" oro thousand nine hundred anu
year o.e o;S.bt at the said City Oh
T.,sTd being then and there
hlcnl5on% tb a deadly weapon, to-wlt +:
aCu,G 80 in and upon one james
t a p,se0i, nnIawfully, feloniousliy, VII
FL deliberately and premealta'SSG;dl
" and of malice aIor et tSe peace
lciLl and murder agaiG3sS r ,or,gpaalth
and dignity OF the Ooit'''''"O
of Virginia. .a cont by the
Court to the Grand = FE - e
Lucy Freeman,
Elijah Henderson,
Fleming James,
William Branch,
DR.. E. T. Hill
v. A. Perkins,
Matte Gerrien.
o +r;o, was set for October Z8'
1oos, at which Officer 8arcougns WAS
as-,,itted Of first degree MG moS tbe
as. 4, Ut Times-Dispatch misspe.!eo sns
ae e. name. At the hearing
p oay G. A. Simmons, who was
., at Brook Avenue and MON,
., Stree+, in the Police C0urS' 'hs
colored attorney, ). IHomaS 4 il an.
oo~aared for Simmons with '"g wa co. ~
a. .r' satisfactory result " ma,
Nc 80 1S tso late Rev. joan Jasper nave
Io .1 abont this action? He was nOte'
for his araor anu ' ~s revelations.
leg from the Doo~ - ~ the world, it
80 ns that Burroughs was
o|-ns the last one to specify Jus,
wat p''s-"s aa - ne co,ored folk;
s%oH'o -
Oh ,.,S 81 c;n,,oons vas within his
~ - 10 seems 70 have known
il7-'? We .a~~-- foy the HE
os - uaaey-tand Wy " Aver D, = ="
r,.,ls ~ view O: l.; an.ip9'hy !,
II ellis beer kUown 10 mn
60 sr,,.+ ave been as
g. "nigse1S' -; r..eh5orhood
siySad to co-oES- 80 oo,.
,.i.are ne would come - 1l-et' -
w.. ,,.;+b This class o. people. i
F9c' VIZ, naor -.at re could moi
mas nav =, &C n. own con.
st1He Ihe r..ya moved or
sciaace. lie co"'h '.,,' o.oo.
Tn re other place on rs osN1' Ss0S
oi.a,y in yiew of the fact that d
- -osdon SAYS. the matter cams
Ju7se f-''N'o" -. sr,arvision of hi:
directly under I"e 80 y D
ora superior officer, CHleI IT, D
Io~lan
bono that i nav be possible
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