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...April 1933, the U. S. S. Akron was lost off the New Jersey coast. Same month, this time in Decatur, Ala., bullet-headed Haywood Patterson, leader of the "Scottsboro Boys," was found guilty of rape by a jury that fixed the death penalty. Scrupulous Judge James E. Horton set aside the verdict as unwarranted by the evidence, thereby signed his own political death warrant (TIME, April...
Since he had helped convict Haywood Patterson in 1933 when he was State's Attorney General, Thomas Edmund Knight Jr. had risen to be Lieutenant Governor of Alabama. The defense soon pointed out that the State constitution forbade a man's holding two public jobs for pay. While Thomas Knight "laughed off" this objection, Judge William Callahan breezily overruled a plea that Knight be barred as special prosecutor at Trial No. 4 at Decatur...
Since a live man is better off than a dead one, and since Haywood Patterson will probably be safer behind bars for the next few years anyhow, the defense could count the verdict something of a triumph. In fairly good spirits Counsel Leibowitz was proceeding with the case of another Scottsboro boy when the prosecution suddenly challenged written medical testimony made at the second trial by a physician now too ill to go to court and substantiate it orally. Thereupon Judge Callahan indefinitely postponed all further trials, ordered the prisoners back to jail in Birmingham...
...State's prison today reported the escape of three prisoners and the recapture of two others who got away . . . J. W. Turner got away in Haywood . . . Fred Jones got away in Moore; and James Ezzell got away in Johnston...
Yesterday morning the jury of the Scottsboro case broke a ten-hour dead-lock to return a verdict of guilty against Haywood Patterson, a negro accused of attacking, in company with eight others, two white girls bumming their way South on a freight train. This is the second time that Patterson has been handed a death sentence for the alleged crime, a new trial having been ordered by the Supreme Court last November. It is not impossible that a third trial will be held, if the defense's appeal is successful. It is, however, doubtful if the verdict will...