The Phoenix index., 1940-03-09
In The Social Realm
Says Police
Beat Him
For No Cause
BY EULUS l.. NANCE

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Denying guilt of any Kind of
lawbreaking and charging he was
brutally beaten by one of two ar
resting officers because they "figur-
&c I was the one who told William
McHenry they were looking for
him., Willie Humphrey, 40, of 825
Mitchell Street, S. W., was tried
at 9:3O o'clock yesterday morning
ano bound over on 500 bond.
Humphreys trial in Recorders
Court. originally set for morning
court Thursday before Judge Cone,
was repeatedly shifted by him to
Friday morning before Judge CAL
loway because the former found no
traffic violation was involved
Humphrey was booked at police
headquarters on the charge of
interfering with an officer, the
arresting officers being Radio
Patrolmen James Chg JIM Gal
vim and J. D. Adams. Calvin was
at one time a catcher for the At
lanta Crackers baseball team.
In reviewing to WORLD re-
porter Friday morning events lead
ing to his flogging ''for no cause
whatever, Humphrey, a driver for
the Harlem Taxi Cab Lines, said
he was parked in his city cab at
t'1r bus terminal ON Carnegie Way
Thu sday morning around 2:30 or
2:45 O'Clock when officers Calvin
and Adams cruised along, ordered
him to get into their radio car,
and drove off.
STRUCK WITH LOADED HOSE
According to Humphrey, who is
an older brother of George
Humphrey, former baseball star
with the Atlanta Black Crackers,
Highland stars, and Atlanta
White Sox, Patrolman Adams
drove the machine and, during
the time, Patrolman Calvin struck
him with a short piece of rubber
hose loaded with some heavy sub
stance.
Humphrey said when they got
to Houston street, between Pied
mont avenue and Courtland street.
the radio car. was parked and he
was then beaten about the face
and head with the hose and a
blackjack and was also kicked
hrutally about the lower portion of
his body.
After that, the alleged police
brutality victim, whose face was
badly swollen and eyes were heavi-
" blodshot upon appearance at
WORLD office Friday morning,
said the officers carried him to the
police station. Ten or fifteen min
utes later, he was finally taken to
| the Grady clinic by two other
radio patrolmen but that II was
ONLY looked over" Humphrey stat
ed that the police were told to
bring him back to the clinic if he
,ached.
Rearrested following dismissal
by hospital internes. Humphrey
was booked on the charge stated
and slated for trial the same morn
| ing.
McHenry, who is understood to
have returned to his job as taxi
driver Of one of the Harlem cabs
Wednesday night, following the
serving of a penal term, is back
IN Jail. Information says of1cers
sought him at reporting time aC
the A. l.. Belle Isle firm but that
he had already gone out for the
nights routine.
It is said a call from l1eadquar-
ters was registered to- tell Nc
Henry to return and check in his
cab, but that he was out on a trip
at the time, whereupon, the order
was relayed to the 'man in the
hole. It was upon McHenry's re-
turn that it is understood officers
said ne had been told they were
after him. Humphrey is charged
with having clipped off, McHenry.
Atty. John E. Feagin OF the
Citizens & Southern Bank Build
ing is representing Humphrey.
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