Word: pilcher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Northwestern-trained legal advisers are now with police in Pittsburgh, Corpus Christi and Chicago. At first, says Legal Intern Wayland Pilcher, who is with the Corpus Christi force, the cops were suspicious of him. But they came around once it dawned on them that his job was to make their own "work more effective within the guidelines...
...Reeb after the trio left a Negro cafe. Both the Rev. Clark Olsen and the Rev. Orloff Miller identified one of the accused, Elmer L. Cook, 42, as among their assailants. "There is no question in my mind," Olsen persisted under tough cross-examination by Defense Attorney Joe T. Pilcher Jr., "that Mr. Cook is the one who attacked...
...Defense Attorney Pilcher hinted darkly that Reeb did not die simply from his wounds. The civil rights movement wanted headlines, he contended, and there was "a motivation on the part of certain civil rights groups to have a martyr." Pilcher could produce no hard evidence that "they willingly let him die," and Ashworth riddied the claim with objections. But Pilcher had made his point...
...hours later Race Horse was arrested, after he bragged at a crap game that he had conned the mayor of Selma. He was charged with grand larceny by trick. Police contacted Smitherman and Pilcher, and they allowed as how they were missing some money...
...Gosh, No." Reporters heard of the episode, and at a police-station conference the pair gave their recollections. "We just wanted a drink of whisky," said Pilcher. Smitherman said he just wanted some food. The official police report said they had sought "some entertainment." When newsmen asked if the subject of women ever came up during their discussions with Race Horse, Pilcher said, "Not women, definitely not women. Women were never mentioned." The mayor gasped, "Gosh, no." Smitherman said he had given Race Horse $7-$3 for the membership, $2 for the cab, $2 for a tip-and that Edwards...