Evening star., 1933-04-07
BY the Associated Press.

to the stand today for further cross
examination by the State.
Motion Overruled.
The motion for new trial was
denied.
A few hours after the Bates girls
appearance and denial of her original
story, reports that a mob was forming
in Huntsville, home of the two white
girls in the case, reached here. Ma
tional Guardsmen with automatic rifles
were thrown around the apartment
hotel of Leibowitz and the guard at the
Jail was increased. No mob materialized.
1.-THE Bates girl said she hitch-hiked
to New York to find work. While
there she called on DR.. Harry Emerson
Fosdick, pastor of the Riverside Bap-
tist Church, at his home to ask his ad-
vice and he advised her to return and
testify at the second trial.
Court Room Startled.
Ruby, dressed in gray and with
new hat perched jauntily on her head,
startled the court room late yesterday
when she appeared without announce
ment
Ruby said she went to New York and
worked for "Marguerite" didn't
know her last name. She met DR..
Fosdick, she said, and he sent her to
Birmingham to see DR.. Charles Cling
man, an Episcopal rector there.
A social worker brought her here
from Birmingham and she denied her
testimony given at the first trial.
1 Mrs. Victoria Price, the other alleged
victim, was present when Ruby entered.
The two girls appeared to glare at each
other Ruby said she told her story
at the Scottsboro trial because was
excited
!. Through long croSs-examination, In
which at times she was obviously f1lls-
tered and hesitated on some questions,
Ruby reiterated that she was not at
tackled.
I, Accompanied by Social Worker.
!, 81 can't remember" she replied to
several questions propounded by knight,
particularly as to the surname of
woman for whom she said she worked
while in New York. Marguerite is all
remember" she said.
The court was in informal recess at
the time she entered. Judge Horton
but minute or two before had said
rThe court will wait eight minutes"
to whispered request from Leibowitz.
That remark was the only inkling
the spectators had that something un-
usual was impending.
The girl was accompanied by Miss
May Jones, social worker of Birming-
ham, who testified she had driven her
here at the request of the Rev. Mr..
Clingman. Attorney General Knight
Immediately asked subpoena for the
Birmingham minister.
Taking the stand the Bates girl
identified herself, then in a hushed
court room faced Mrs. Price for whom
Paterson was charged with attacking
AMI identified her.
Lester Carter of Knoxville, Tenn.
who was on the stand during the
morning, was brought in and the girl
identified him.
Carter in the forenoon. in a three
hour recital, during which he gestured
almost constantly, told of clandestine
meeting with the Bates girl at which
Mrs. Price and Jack Tillery were pres
ent.
Coroborates Carter Testimony.
Taking up a recital of her movements
from March %, 1881, until she was
taken from a Southern Railway freight
train at Paint Rock, Ala, she admitted
testimony given in the forenoon by
Carter.
On March "a 1881, she said, she, Mrs.
Price and Carter caught freight train
to Chattanooga and there they met
Oryille Gilley Carolina SLIM and
bpcIl lllSIlL III d IiOpO oWdAiPs
Unable to find work. she said the
quartet boarded a freight train the
next day to return to Huntsville and
rode box car to Stevenson.
Me, Victoria, Lester and Gilley
boarded box car which we rode to
Stevenson, and there we got In gon-
dola," she said. The fight between the
colored men and seven white boys oc-
CURED in the next car, she testified.
fok
Rock, she said she was excited and
continued in that state in jail.
"She (Victoria) told me If I didn't
say 1t (that she had been attackedD
they would put us in jail" the girl tes-
titled when asked by Liebowitz II any
one told her what to say.
The girl said she came here from
New York. leaving there Monday and
going to Birmingham.
Explains Disappearance.
Taking up cross examination Attor.
ney General Knight said. Where did
YOU get that hat and coat?"
II bought it," she replied ana hesl,
tated. biting her lips when he asked
Who gave her the money, but finally
said in an almost inaudible voice, DR..
Fosdick''
KNIGHT switched to her disappear
ance and she said she had gone from
her home in Huntsville to Montgom-
cry with Rosetta Brown and two boy
friends"
It took her IL days to make her
way from Montgomery to New York, she
said, hitchhiking to Chattanooga ana
there deciding to go to New York.
! Knight asked her who csme from
New York with her. She replied she
came alone on money borrowed from
the woman for whom she worked:
She borrowed $50, she said. and took
4 bus to Birmingham and was met
by Joseph r. Brodsky Of New York one