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Samuel S. Leibowitz, chief counsel for the Scottsboro boys, announces that he is now in possession of seven affidavits deposing testimony given by four hundred residents of Morgan County, to whose court the change of venue will bring the Scottsboro case late this month. The testimony, secured by the simple expedient of camouflaging investigators as brush salesmen, shows forth the Jim Crows with every fang aglitter. For example, one mellow judgment runs: "If them lawyers comes here, it will be a one way trip." Many admitted that they had already made up their minds, but "Would conceal...
...Observers agree that the mass hatred now raging in Morgan County is fully as pronounced as that in Jackson County which impelled the change of venue, and express serious doubts as to the safety, not only of the defendants, but of the attorneys imported in their behalf. That the Scottsboro case, or any other, case involving negroes, should be tried in a cotton belt court, is a hideous and an intolerable thing. But it is very difficult to withdraw such cases from Southern jurisdiction without calling into question the theory of sectional justice which originally places them there...
...tone of the Federal Courts challenges the plain conclusion which we are unwilling to accept, that in the complex conditions of a new society the local courts, barometers of every form of sectional insanity and weakness, are not up to the business of dispensing our justice. If the Scottsboro trial is held in Decatur, who will be responsible...
Though the Scottsboro case has not figured very much in the summer news, it resumes operations next month in Alabama under a new management. In the meantime, however, the citizens have not found time too leaden-footed just to keep their hands in, they have engineered two typical lynchings in the last two months. The second and latest was a routine affair, but the first was, perhaps, a little more interesting. The negro defendants accused of crimes against whites were being taken by the police from Tuscaloosa to Decatur by a backroad, escorted by ten armed men in automobiles. When...
...Negro might murder in the South and find asylum in the North. Below the Potomac there was wild talk of a sudden increase in lynching if the Lowell ruling became permanent. Only by force of arms could the South be compelled to put Negroes on its juries. The Scottsboro case in Alabama hinged on the same issue after trial and conviction. Judge Lowell had intensified the racial issue by raising it before trial. Southern resentment against Judge Lowell quickly boiled to a climax in the House of Representatives. Two days after the Boston ruling Virginia's Representative Howard Smith...