Word: higginbotham
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Southern lynchings customarily end with the death of the mob's victim. Last week's reverse lynching had a reverse ending. To a Birmingham hospital went Negro Alvin Hill, seriously wounded by two .45 calibre bullets. Into a Birmingham jail five hours later strolled Clarence Higginbotham, white proprietor of the "Bloody Bucket." He confessed to the shooting, said he had been afraid Hill and three Negro companions were going to try some of that "lynch stuff...
...Oxford, Miss., a judge dismissed a jury debating the case of Negro Ellwood Higginbotham, accused of murdering a white man. After awaiting the jury's verdict for more than 24 hours, an impatient mob had hauled Negro Higginbotham out of jail, hanged him to a tree. ¶In Manhattan, detectives arrested Gustave Freeman when he stepped off the S. S. Ile de France, found in his trunk 100,000 French National Lottery tickets, apparently forged...
...Danvers, Dominic R. Freni of Boston, Gerald F. Gilmore of Wayland, Milton J. Goldwasser of Cambridge, Richard S. Green of Somerville, William A. Greene, Jr. of Cambridge, William G. Hanson of Cambridge, John M. Hartwell, Jr. of Belmont, John B. Hawkins of Worcester, Gorge A. Heald of Roslindale, Sibley Higginbotham of Wollaston, Michael S. Hovenanian of Cambridge, Robert C. Hunter of Newtonville, Richard B. Johnson of Philips Beach, William W. A. Johnson of Cambridge, Grinnell Jones, Jr. of Cambridge, William P. Jones of Plymouth, Ralph Lazzaro of Wakefield, Winthrop H. Lee of Concord, Joseph LePrsti of Lawrence, Norman P. Leatarte...
Another convict-I asked Courson, 'Ain't that chain too tight?' Higginbotham said, 'That chain ain't tight enough. He can still drink water...
Having listened to testimony for two the jury took less than three hours reaching a verdict: Captain Courson, guilty of manslaughter, which carries a sentence of from one to 20 years in prison; Solomon Higginbotham, not guilty...