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...Emotion. The 96-year-old statute under which they and a third Klansman, George H. Turner, were accused makes it a crime to "conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any citizen in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States." Though the law was intended to encourage Negro voting, the U.S. Supreme Court (TIME, April 8) recently opened the way for the trial by interpreting it to cover any attempt to block a citizen's right to interstate travel; at the time...
Sims, 43, an Athens machinist, and Myers, 26, a textile worker, showed no emotion when U.S. Attorney Floyd Buford, a Georgia native, accused them of "actively participating" in the slaying. His chief witness, ex-Klansman Thomas "Big Tom" Stephens, a truck driver, related that a garage operator told him the night of the slaying that Sims and Myers "was out chasin' a nigger car with D.C. tags on it." Stephens also testified that he later heard the pair "discuss a shootin'," adding: "I heard one say he tried to get the other one not to kill...
...been employed more blatantly than in Ala bama's Lowndes County. In the slave-built county courthouse at Hayneville last fall, separate trials only weeks apart resulted in acquittals for Special Deputy Tom Coleman, charged with the shot gun slaying of Episcopal Seminarian Jonathan Daniels, and Ku Klux Klansman Collie Leroy Wilkins, accused of murdering Viola Liuzzo, another northern civil rights worker...
...year before he was arrested for the nightrider slaying of Mrs. Viola Liuzzo near Selma last March, Alabama Klansman Collie Leroy Wilkins was riding around with a sawed-off shotgun in his car. Stopped by the cops in Hueytown, near Birmingham, Wilkins pleaded guilty to violating a 1934 federal law designed to curb gangsters, which requires registration of such weapons. After a not-too-inquiring probation officer reported that he had a blameless character and Birmingham Federal Judge Clarence Allgood himself decided that Collie's mother "is a real good woman...
Threat Carried Out. "I had no idea what Burros might or might not do," says Phillips, who was taken out of town under police guard after the Klansman phoned the paper alternately threatening to kill the reporter or "wipe out" the Times. Shortly after the story appeared, Burros did carry out his threat of violence-but on himself. After storming around Frankhouser's apartment in Reading, Pa., and demolishing a bedstead with a karate kick, he shot himself to death with a pistol...