Word: heisler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week in Chicago, the whole Weems incident was cleared up. In the office of Lawyer Francis Heisler appeared Negro Frank Weems, alive and whole. After being beaten he had hidden for a week in a hobo "jungle," then traveled north, had finally told his story to the Workers' Defense League. The Rev. Claude Williams and Willie Sue Blagden might have suffered in vain, but safe in Chicago Frank Weems planned to sue his floggers for $25,000 damages...