Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1949-10-07


statement in the Trenton Six Cas-,
was concealed by Trenton Prosecu
tor Mario Volpe for one and a hal
years until a successful court &C
ton by Gro Attorneys forced it!
disclosure this week.
CRC Attorneys pointed to the
date of the key witness Statement
June %, l948-(six months after
Horner's murder, five months at
ter the arrest of the Trenton
Six. and sixteen days after the
trial began as incontrovertible
proof that Prosecutor Volpe had
committed himself to the convic-
ton of the six Trenton Negro citi-
zens regardless of the facts in the
case.
The key witness was Jerry Girls
wald, handyman who worked
and lived on the Horner premises
and who the CRC Attorneys charg-
ed with having been kept in pro-
tective custody by Prosecutor
Volpe since the case began to pre-
vent defense examination of the
witness at any time.
This charge was further
strengthened today when news re-
porters who attempted TO inter-
view GrisWall were physically
showed aside by Trenton detee-
tives. who then whisked Griswad
away.
CRC Attorneys, o. John Royce
Solomon Golat, Emanual Bloch
and William L. Patterson, repre-
senting three of the Trenton Six,
achieved these significant revela-
tons in Mercer County Court Fri
day over the strenuous objections
OF the prosecution staff.
Judge Hutchinson,who was the
trial Judge in the celebrated case,
and whose conduct at the trial
had been characterized as replete
with error by the New Jersey Sup
RENE Court, presided today.
The defense attorneys chief de-
mands were that the prosecution
produce information In its posses
sion-which II has to date sup
pressed-adding 10 the incontro'
yer,ible proof Of the innocence oil
the Trenton Six.
The Griswald statement was a.
mong a mass Of evidence defense
attorneys charge the prosecution
with withholding because II would
reveal the calculated frame-up per-
pe,ra,ed agains, the Trenton Six.
The prosecutions staff's attempt
10 show tina, Griswald had always
been available TO anyone and the
action of detectives In whisklns
the witness away from news re-
por,ers was obviously eon'radie-
t.. defense attorneys pointed
out
iorrty o. jona HcsAt en lrgcd
IN rour, that Prosecutor Nf.pc lad
q la,cd the canous Co. by
committing himself 10 the eon'ie'
ton OF the Trenton Six rather
than 10 discovering and punishing
the guilty and protecting the In
noccnt
MIR. Rosge. speaking in eour, In
the presence of three Of the de-
PENDANTS and their relatives. as.
sailed Wipes "Jimcrow-mindcd
Justice" and quoted from Federal
tce Il recent decision IN
The James ID ntgomery case tchi'
ea.o. Illinois,:
Unfortuna. ely, we have not
pt irssscd far enough In Our path
toward the civilized state which
plnces a eolorcd man on equal
footing with that Of white man
Social offcnses are common against
the Negro by methods Of segresa-
lion. os,raeism. and other sto'er.
fupes-all designed TO deprive him
though he be a native-born citi'
zen, from the just rights and pro
,cc,ive cloaks guaranteed TO him
by the Constitution Of the United
States"
Gre National Executive Score
tary, William L. Patterson. one Oh
the defense attorneys, charged tha'
a statement by Judge Hutchinson
today TO the effect that the de
Tense demands for information be
ins cealed by Prosecutor Volp'
wen fishing expedition wat
q, w. De with a judges obliga
ton TO uncover the truth.
we are looking for the truth,