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dynamite waiting for it to explode.
The seven ScottSboro boys were
brought to Decatur under the utmost
secrecy. They left the Birmingham Jail
shortly after o'clock in the morning
in six cars escorted by Sheriff Bud"
Davis, of Morgan County, Sheriff j.
f. Hawkins of JeffersonC and
total of 20 deputies armed with
automatic rifles, shotguns and one
sub-machine gun.
They made the night run without
stopping and arrived at the Decatur
Jail at 6:15. No one except news
papermen were around to see them.
1t contrasted greatly with the large
crowd of some 500 whites and about
1850 Negroes who waited about when
they were brought for the trial last
spring.
Handcuffed Boys
The boys were handcuffed during
the transportation and divided up in
the various cars among the deputies,
one or two to each car.
Leibowitz, Brodsky and Geo. Cham
lee arrived In Decatur shortly before
8 o'clock this morning after leaving
Birmingham at g. They went directly
to Geo. Chamlee's apartment in the
Cornelian Court Apartments, where
the Southern counsel had registered
the night before
T1e Morgan County courthouse was
virtually deserted in comparison to
the crowds that we're there at the
spring trial. Less than a dozen men
stood about on the courthouse
grounds. Upstairs, where the trial
is to be held, there were a score of
grim-faced men in oYeralls which,
as time wore on was increased to
some $50. No Negroes were in evil
dence until efter the courtroom doors
were opened. Then about half a
dozen drilted in and sat in the Sec
ton reserved for the Negroes.
The whole atmosphere around the
courthouse was PEACEFUL was hard
TO determine whether it was naturally
50 CT oIlinou3iy so. There was little
talk among them. though some kid
ding and repeated statements that
''Leihowits hasn't the CUTS to show up
here again
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At five minutes to nine the seven
bCys were escorted in by both sheriffs
and deputies and took their places in
the seats reserved for them behind
the prosecution tables. Their hand
Gu had oaen removed
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