The Omaha guide., 1934-01-13

twenty hours of merciless beatings
and tortures-to say the least about
inhuman punishments and hecklings
at the point of two guns in the
hands Of both the railroad agent and
the deputy district attorney respecti-
vely, was forced to sign even differ
ent confessions" WIN no two being
identical. l did not sign them be-
cause I had committed any crime.
I did so because 1 could stand no
more of the grewsome misery they
were heaping upon me. For with my
right thumb broken. right ringing
er knuckle ~dislocated, cut in two
places over both eyes, a burnt place
on my left arm four inches long from
an electric torch placed there by
Chandler, and a m~urderous kick in
the testicles that has injured me for
life, I was willing to do whatever
they wished if they would only stop
a. 0CklCCiik HlCs ~ viz oSNSA
different angles" of the crime were
signed. the chosen one selected and
broadcasted over radio station XIII
Willard Hotel, Klamath Falls, after
it was given to the jury for con-
sideration, a mob, reacting to the SEN
sational manner of the broadcast,
gathered around the Jail yelling:
Lynch the niger. Give him to us
and We'll do a good job of him." with
these facts in mind it is a wonder
that | reached the death cells alive.
Incidently, the dissenting Justices,
commenting on the facts previously
cited says: upon the offer of the
state of a purported confession of the
defendant, the question of its admis-
sibility was presented. In the first in
stance, that is a question to be de-
termined by the judge of the court.
If the judge sustains the defendants
objection, the question cannot be con-
sidered by the jury at al. When the
question is determined. the course
sidered by the jury at all.
When the question is determin-
ed it should not have the
effect of charging the scope of the
testimony which the state is entitled
to submit upon the issue of the de-
PENDANTS guilt or innocence. In the
opinion of the writer's, the trial court
gave it such effect"
The gentleman Of the bar con-
cludes in the following manner:
There is no rule or law to the
writer which renders any of this
testimony so received admissible
in a criminal case
Before the hanging Of a man
may be legally justified, such a
man must be given a trial with all
points in conformity with the law
The writer's are unable to convince
ourselves that such a trial was ac-
corded defendant herein; and, Their
fore, dissents."
Everyone knows that Third Degree
methods are common practices when
an unsolved crime must be placed on
some member of the working class.
Tom Mooney and Billings know
what | am talking about. The Scot
tsboro boys know too and should in
nocent Fuel Lee and George Armwood
of barbarous Maryland be able to
talk, they. too, would join me in max
ing my statements unanimous in
every way. But indescribable bruta-
lities have locked their voices in the
silent tomb Of death. Who ever
heard Samuel insult, Andrew Mellon,
or the Chase National bank being
forced to sign "confessions?" 1t is
the working class who is made to
suffer-and preferably a black man
at all cost. However, and despite all
the odds against US, we can stop this
cowardly practice, but it can be done
only thru your concerted and imme-
date action.
In the light Of these facts, as they
more fully appear on the face of the.
record, /, a framed and condemned
black worker, appeal to you to stop
this supposedly mobster LYNCHING.
Ii this nation is conceived in the
spirit Of liberty and justice to all, it
is your duty and position to main
tain this issue, for we know that the
nation was dedicated to the propo-
sition that "All men are created
equal.~ Therefore, / again, from the
grim walls of this death cell cry out
to all lovers of justices, to all who
are opposed to legal and illegal lynch
ings, to all who hold human life sa-
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