The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-06
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son DOaSJeQ OF having participated
in the alleged attacks.
Negro Boys Testify
Leibowitz today called each of the
Scottsboro boys to the stand and all
vehemently denied any attacks upon
Price or Bates. Willie Robinson, one
of the boys removed from the train
by a sheriff's posse, was the first de-
Tense witness called. He denied all
knowledge of the attacks upon the
two women.
A dramatic moment in the ques-
tioning of the defendants came today
when Prosecutor knight was ques-
tioning Haywood Patterson, now on
trial for his life.
81 Was Framed"
"You were tried at Scottsboro, were
you not2" Knight asked.
II was framed at ScOttsboro!" the
Negro boy answered heatedly.
This came as a elimination to the
testimony Of the other Negro boys,
who traced every moment Of their ac-
tions on the freight train, using the
miniature trains set up in the court
room.
Robertson, another of the defend
ants, testified that he was physically
unable to jump over the freight train
and engage in a fight or the alleged
attack, since he remained in the
same fiat car all the way between
Chattanooga and Paint Rock.
Never Saw Women
All the boys testified they never
saw the women on the train, and
observed them for the first time. I'm
mediately upon reaching the witness
stand, Eugene Williams told how he
was for nearly two years kept in full
view OF the electric chair at Kilby
Prison, although he had not even
been convicted. He then told the
story Of the fight between the white
and Negro boys on the train on the
other side OF Stevenson. The young
Negro boy told his story calmly, in
dicating by use of the miniature
train how the white boys stepped
upon Patterson's hand, while passing
over the oil tank and how Patterson
asked them to be careful, and how
this incident led to the fight which
resulted in all but two white boys
and an unknown number of Negroes
leaving the freight train before
reaching Paint Rock.
Quiet and Confident
The bearing Of the boys on the
witness stand was quiet and self
confident, and they were answering
in the main points Of their story,
refusing to permit themselves to be
confused by Prosecutor knights
detailed and deliberately involved
questions.
Young Williams told how Patter-
son saved the life of Gilley, white
boy, by pulling him into the gondola
train while the freight was travel
ling at a high speed. When knight
tried to take the alleged attack OH
the white girls for granted, Patter-
son replied:
II never did that, did not even
see the girls. You think l would
save white man and then let
him witness such thing as raping
white women?"
For some time the Negro boy ar
gued directly with Knight, all the
time vigorously denying the prosecu-
tors charges and insinuations.
Victoria Price In Jungle
Dallas Ramsay, Negro from Cha
ttanooea, was an important defense
witness. He testified that at III
the morning before the freight ride
he saw Victoria Price with another
girl in the Hobo jungle at Cnatta
nooga. Wednesday, Victoria Price
testified she had spent the night at
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Chattanooga, not coming to the rail-
way yards until late in the morning.
Ramsay testified she asked him when
her train would pull out.
He saw her again at pm. toge-
ther with Ruby Bates and two white
men boarding freight train. VIC
toria Price has testified she never
met Orville Gilley or Lester Carter,
two OF the boys on the train, before
she got on the train.
The defense announced it would
prove that she and Ruby Bates spent
the night in freight car at Chat
tanooga with these two men before
boarding the train.
Testimony Unbrcken
The prosecution tried to break
down this damaging testimony but
failed completely before the compo-
sure and cscer txusAfuincss Of Ram