Word: aikens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last month in Aiken, S. C., a band of the new gentry lynched three Negroes, Demon and Clarence Lowman and their sister Bertha, with a refinement of tactics (TIME, Oct. 18). They hauled their prey out of jail one night, took them out of town, told them to run, shot them in the face and chest as they turned to look. In 200 parked cars the gentry stepped on their starters, satisfied...
Meanwhile, in the offices of the New York World, Executive Editor Herbert Bayard Swope read the despatches. It was a good news story, duly featured. Then a week later, he heard rumors that there was more to be found in Aiken than what came in the despatches. His dynamic brain developed action. He called for one of his ablest, muckraking reporters, Oliver H. P. Garrett, said: "Garrett, go to South Carolina. . . ." The World must still crusade. Reporter Garrett went; and for the last fortnight the World's columns have bristled with his stories...
...seems that the sheriff of Aiken, one Nollie Robinson, and the jailer had not fought the lynchers who had come for the three Negroes (as originally reported), but had, according to testimony of other prisoners, helped take the Negroes out of jail. The unearthing of this story was attributed to Walter White, Negro, of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The exuberant journalism of Editor Swope pushed the issue to the doorstep of Governor Thomas G. McLeod. The World reporter gave it wide publicity and helped bring about an investigation of Sheriff Robinson's alleged offense...
Rupert Taylor, jailer of the town of Aiken, S. C., was testifying at a Coroner's inquest held upon the death of three Negro prisoners-Demon and Clarence Lowman and their sister, Bertha. The jailer's account was simple...
...also his nephew, William L. Mellon. There is Ralph Beaver Strassburger (he married into the Singer Sewing Machine family). There is J. R. Grundy, President of the Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Association. There is also in the background (so far as this year's Senatorial contest is concerned) Senator David Aiken Reed, also worth a few millions. But the three candidates...