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...TIME any person not totally blind could easily see through the trick. For a "consideration" I will gladly duplicate the trick in my own parlor using a broom instead of a stick and without flowing robes, wild eyes etc. and before any committee TIME wishes to choose. WILLIAM H. MOSELEY...
Knut H. Giertz, surgeon to the late Queen of Sweden, is teaching students in classes of Elliott C. Cutler '09, Moseley Professor of Surgery, for two weeks at the Medical School...
Superior Judge Berry T. Moseley was in bed with influenza one day last month when an excited deputy sheriff rushed into his Danielsville, Ga. home, told him he had better hustle over to the jail. The 74-year-old jurist arose, put on some clothes, elbowed his way through a crowd that had just battered a two-foot hole in the jail wall. Sensing what was up. Judge Moseley mounted the steps, thundered: "This is an open violation of the law. ... I declare you all deputized as officers." The crowd quickly dispersed...
Last week Negro Lint Shaw, whom Judge Moseley had thus saved from lynching, returned from safekeeping in Atlanta to Danielsville to stand trial for attempted assault on a white woman. A murderous-looking mob forced his transfer to nearby Royston. There at midnight the same mob ripped him out of the jail. At daybreak his bullet-ridden body was found swaying from a pine tree in a creek bed, Georgia's 468th lynching.* Few days later in Pavo 200 Georgians raised the total to 469 by lynching Negro John Ruskin, confessed murderer of a white...
...Bontemps can sketch convincing characters, to use an overworked expression. His negroes are authentic, and so are his "planter" aristocrats. Ben, the loyal old slave, who betrays the insurgents; Melody, the mulatto mistress of the white rascals; Juba, the slave girl who is in love with the hero; Mr. Moseley Sheppard, Ben's master; Pharaoh, the other traitor--all these characters remain fixed in the memory some time after one has finished reading the book. Gabriel, the hero, who had pondered on the exploits of Toussainat L'Ouverture, the Haitian patriot, is not so forceful as a better novelist would...