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alton.
Later Judge Pollock after the
April 8 hearing. granted a provi-
sional extraction writ, providing
that Hill should be returned to Ar
kansas to be tried upon the Fed
eral charge in the Federal courts,
with the stipulation that if Hiil
was not convicted he was to be
returned safely by Arkansas auth
critics to the Federal Court in
Kansas. This Arkansas refused to
agree to do, thus substantiating
the N.A.A.C.P. charge that it was
motivated merely by vengeance.
Judge Pollock thereupon released
Mr.. Hill under $1,000 tone for a
hearing in October. As,dn Walter
White went to WISHING ton to con-
fer with Department Of Justice Of
ficials. On October 8, 1920, both
cases ia the Federal Court against
Mr.. Hill were dismissed by order
of the Attorney General. Mr.. Hill
was a free man. Mr. Fisher, the
white attorney, served without fee,
as did Attorneys Guy, Scott and
Thomas (colored) of Topeka, Kan
sas, and Attorneys Jones (colored)
and Fzibbler of Little Rock, Ark.
International ExtraditIon Baked
In 1922, quick action on the part
of the N.A.A.C.P., the National
Race Congress and the Buffalo
Branch, moved the Dominion of
Canada to decline to extradite
Matthew Bullock to Norlina, North
Carolina where his. brother had
been lynched In 1921 for refusing
to accept rotten apples from a
storekeeper when he had paid for
good ones and for talking back. J"
Following disorders in which sew
eral blacks and whites were injur-
ed, Bullock escaped to Canada to
be arrested fen months later on a
charge of "inciting to riot and
shooting a white man." After sew
eral months of litigation, much
publicity and the raising of large
defense fund, Matthew Bullock was
released.
Other noted extradition cases
fought by the Association were the
viii Whitfield (1921) case where
North Carolina was prevented
from extraditing the Negro, ac-
cused of assaulting white man,
from New York; the H. F. Smid-
dy case (1921) where a white man
who had given favorable testino-
ny in the Elaine rioters" case,
was saved from being returned to
Arkansas from Topeka, Kans, on
a trumped up charge; the long
fought case of Samuel Kennedy,
(1927) arrested in Chicago for es-
Gaping from a Georgia chain gang
where he had been serving sent
ence for slapping white man; the
case of Edward Glass (1927), a
Negro business man, who fled to
California from Sapulpa, Okla, af-
ter killing a white man, MEM
Der Of a group breaking into his
store and for whom California and
Oklahoma Branches and the Ma
'tional office spent $1105.5O to pre-
vent his extradition, but failed; the
successful efforts to prevent the
extradition Tin 1929 of VIII
Brown from Columbus, o., to Mis-
sissippi; J. T. Allen from Great
Falls, Mont, to Alabama, and vi
ola Edwards from Detroit, Mich,
to Pensacola Fla. While the As
ISOLATION failed to prevent the ex-
tradition of SiIas Parmore from
New Jersey to Georgia in 1924,
where he was wanted for the kill
ing of a police chief, the New
Brunswick Branch expended $727.-
81 and received personal assurance
from the Governor of Georgia for
the safety OF the prisoner and a
fair trial. The fight of the Asso-
citation in 1888 to prevent the ex-
tradition of George Crawford from
Massachusetts to Virginia, which
along with the subsequent trial at
Leesburg, Va. cost $3,636.s2, was
instrumental in getting Negroes
placed on Virginia juries for the
first time since 1902.
Extradition cases are extremely
difficult, since they challenge not
only the police power of the South
ern state but also the methods of
selecting juries. It is a tribute to
the legal staff of the N.A.A.C.P.
that it has been successful in ma
ny outstanding instances.
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