Search Details

Word: hardeman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1927-1927
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...arrest and conviction of the leader of the floggers. Governor Walker, too, is a "proud and noble" Klansman. Hence, the reward offers of these two gentlemen may either be taken as gestures of righteous indignation or as a means of diverting suspicion from guilty fellow-Klansmen. Judge R. E. Hardeman of the Toombs circuit did not hush up such a suspicion when he told the press last week: "It is generally known that between 40 and 50 persons attired in official Ku Klux Klan regalia paraded through Lyons shortly before Brown was seized and hurried out of town. Brown himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LYNCHING: In Toombs | 1/10/1927 | See Source »

| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Next