Word: ben
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After he had had the Collins woman some time, Ben Bess went to jail for 30 years hard labor. That was in 1915. That trash, Frank Collins, hadn't minded at all about Ben Bess and the woman, until Ben Bess decided not to rent his land any more. Then Frank Collins brought the charge that has lynched many a nigger. The Collins woman, old Maude, backed him up. They said Ben Bess had raped...
Last month, Ben Bess got out of jail. Governor Richards pardoned him. The pardon was the result of Maude Collins' confession-now that she is 60 and expecting Death soon-that she had sworn falsely about Ben Bess...
...Ben Bess came out of jail but he had no farm to go to. The lawyers had eaten that up long ago. Thirteen years at hard labor had aged and broken him. He had a bad cough. People sent him money and the Legislature will probably provide for him. But Governor Richards agreed that South Carolina's debt to Ben Bess is irreparable...
Perhaps it was to prove that he really felt badly about it that Governor Richards last week gave the Ben Bess case a new twist. He wrote a letter to the solicitor of the Florence district and suggested that he present to the Grand Jury the white trash woman, Maude Collins, now 60 years old and expecting Death soon...
...teeth are like the Ten Commandments-all of them broken." For once, an all star company seemed as good as the sum of its parts and the play creaked seldom as it rolled rapidly across the stage. Among the stars were: Frances Starr, 42, Cecilia Loftus, 51, Jacob Ben-Ami, 38, Rollo Peters, 45, Helen Gahagan, 27, Georgette Cohan...