The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-10-16
STATE TROOPERS TO GUARD SCOTTSDORO YOUTHS ASKED
 BY SHERIFF AT NEW TRIAL
Six Negroes Again to Face Court In Famous Case After a POStpOnement of
 Several Months for Study of Evidence
BY MAYNARD STITT

pearance on the bench nex. month, friends believe.
 Severe Attack Suffered
 He has suffered at lea,. one severe attack and he is confined to his home. It is likely that Judge A. A. Grifiths, who shares tn judicial circuit, will hear the cases.
 The request for state police to take full responsibility for guarding the defendants was made to the governor of Alabama by Sheriff J. Street Sandlin.
 Six negroes will go on trial at the coming session. One O. the nire original defendants in the case received .G 75-year sentCLce at the last trial after he had been found guilty of assaulting Victoria Price aboard freight tain near Scottsboro, Ala, March 25, 1881. Two other defendnts in the case were juveniles at the time of the alleged assault and cannot be tried by the circuit court.
 Postponed from Last Summer
 The trials were postponed last summer when the defense asked ad- ditional time to permit A. H. Car michael, then representative from the eighth congressional district, to study testimony at previous trials before appearing as defense attor- ney. The entrance of Carmichael, a southern lawyer and once leader of his party in the area where the as- ssult allegedly occurred, 'reated a mild sensation.
 The other de.ense attorneys are Samuel LeibowitZ, New York crim- inal lawyer, and Clarence Watts, Huntsville, Ala, attorney. The state will be represented by Lieut. Gov. Thomas E. Knight, Jr., special pros- ecutor; the circuit solicitor, Melvin Hutson; the Scottsboro circuit soli- citor, H. G. Bailey, and an assistant from the attorney generals office.
 Sheriff Sandlin revealed to the United Press that he has asked the governor to place the negro de- fendants in the custody of the state highway patrol for duration of the trial to prevent a recurrence of the near-disastrous break for liberty made by the two juvenile defendants at the end of the last trials.
 Attack Incident R called
 Three of the defendant were in Sandlin's motor car on their way back to the Birmingham jail. Just as they topped Lacon fountain, about 30 miles from Decatur, the pair drew knives and one of them cut Edgar Blalock, deputy, riding in the front seat with the sheriff.
 Sandlin quickly stopped the car, and shot one of the defend ants, Ocie Powell, in the head. Powell was near death for several days but even tually recovered and joined his companions in til, Jefferson county jail to await new trial.
 The highway patrol aided Sandlin and his deputies at the last trial in guarding the negroes, but the sher- if said that this time he wanted the patrol to take sole charge of the defendants.
 The negro sentenced at the last court trial was Haywood Patterson. Those to be tried at the new session are Clarence Norris, Olen Montgom- cry, Charlie Weems, Ocie Powell, Andy Wright, and Willie Robertson.
 Court Barred to Camera Men
 Gruff, hearty Judge Callahan has heard two of the Scottsboro trials. His rulings were curt, his explana- tions brief and couched in straight forward language that left no un- certainty in the minds of attorneys, jurors and spectators. The judge had no place for newspaper photograph CTS in his courtroom nd once chased one of the courthouse grounds, warning him of the court order pro- hibiting making pictures on county property.
 White haired, wearing black = trimmed spectacleS, the arrival of the judge on the bench was a cue for immediate order He was a strict disciplinarian, and the spectator who offended the dignity of the bench indeed was unfortunate.
 But attorney, defendants, witness newsmen and spectator highly re- spected the judge and never was a serious disturbance threatened in the courtroom, even at the most dramatic moments of the trial.