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...conviction of one Scottsboro (Ala.) Negro on the mortal charge of raping two white girls (TIME, April 17 et ante): indefinite postponement of the trial of the other six defendants; in Decatur, Ala. Grounds: alleged insults to Alabamans by Chief Defense Counsel Samuel S. Leibowitz, creating "sentiment that might not allow a fair trial." Interviewed by a northern newshawk about the Alabama jurors. Leibowitz was quoted as saying, "If you ever saw those creatures; those bigots, whose mouths are slits in their faces, whose eyes pop out at you like frogs, whose chins drip tobacco juice, bewhiskered and filthy...
Yesterday morning the jury of the Scottsboro case broke a ten-hour dead-lock to return a verdict of guilty against Haywood Patterson, a negro accused of attacking, in company with eight others, two white girls bumming their way South on a freight train. This is the second time that Patterson has been handed a death sentence for the alleged crime, a new trial having been ordered by the Supreme Court last November. It is not impossible that a third trial will be held, if the defense's appeal is successful. It is, however, doubtful if the verdict will...
...almost universal protest directed against Alabaman jurisdiction has been based on a number of beliefs and sympathies, but the one outstanding sentiment has been that the Scottsboro boys have not been granted fair trials. As in the Mooney case, it is a question of procedure and not of innocence. It has been evident to all those who have given even a slight inspection to the affair that in the trials at Scottaboro and Docatur the jurors were subject to an overwhelming prejudicial influence, which rendered their decisions far from impartial. At times the prisoners had to be protected...
...face of these three phobias against the colored race, the Semites, and the Communists, it is unreasonable to expect anything good to come out of Alabama. Barring the very improbable Constitutional change necessary to remove the administration of capital crimes from local areas to Federal control, the Scottsboro boys can at the most hope for a commutation of sentence from electrocution of sentence from electrocution to life imprisonment. Until the prejudices permeating Southern thought are liquidated it will continue to be obvious that the eye-bandage Justice wears to insure an impartial weighing of the scales is made of transparent...
Price, accused nine young Negroes of raping them as they hoboed their way in a freight gondola through Jackson County, Ala. Eight of the Negroes were condemned to death at Scottsboro, county seat, ten days later. The ninth, aged 13, was turned over to a juvenile court, as was subsequently one of the condemned, aged 14. Last November the U. S. Supreme Court overruled (7-to-2) the Alabama Supreme Court which had denied the defendants' plea for retrial. A new trial, with venue changed not to urban Birmingham as the defense requested, but "for reasons of economy...