Word: gilstrap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Midway in the second day, selection of an all-white jury was completed. Prosecutor Watt got down to work. His first witness was J. Ed Gilstrap, 62, the jailer at Pickens. Ed told about turning Willie Earle over to the mob. "I thought they meant business," he said, grinning. "They had a gun." Who was in the mob? Ed wasn't sure...
...Watt wasted little time with Ed Gilstrap. The main body of his evidence lay in the statements signed by 26 of the defendants. The statements named names, times, places. Without them, the state had a flimsy case. Sam Wratt started to read the statement of Willie Eugene Bishop. 27, one of the taxi drivers...