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...Yassuh, Yassuh." The first thing Underwood did, with the help of Deputy Sheriff Homer Sheffield, was to round up 30 Negroes. He finally narrowed his suspects down to four, then herded them into the sheriff's back room. As Sheriff Marshall explained: "I was not there, but about 9 or 10 o'clock, after some heat probably had been applied to try to get the truth, one of them said, 'Yassuh, yassuh, we hit him in the head.'" Underwood got "confessions" signed by three of the prisoners-Jesse James Jr., Amos Redmond and Jesse Davis-admitting...
Wave of Shame. In the shocked silence that followed, Detective Underwood scurried back to his home in nearby Cleveland, Miss. Sheriff Marshall cleared his throat embarrassedly, said: "I don't know what I could do to Underwood. As for Sheffield, he's only been with the office a few months." But then the storm broke and the whole ugly story came out. A doctor reported that all four Negroes had been brutally beaten across the buttocks; two were unable to return to work after they were released from jail. Galloway was sent to the hospital ("I told them...
Under the presidency of Theologian Timothy Dwight, Chemist Benjamin Silliman, father of scientific teaching in the U.S , set up his pioneer laboratory, out of which grew the autonomous Sheffield Scientific School. Gradually, Yale began to accumulate some of its brightest ornaments. There were Physicist Josiah Willard Gibbs, who formulated the laws that form the basis for modern thermodynamics, Elias Loomis, who helped devise the modern weather map, Geologist James Dwight Dana, Sociologist William Graham Sumner...
...year-old chemist is married and has three children. The Washington School of Plastics now employs him as an instructor. He got his degree from Yale's Sheffield Scientific School in 1912, six years after the renowned George Frederick Gundelfinger...
This death notice in the Sheffield Star was a British joke, but it fitted the dubious, unenthusiastic mood with which many Britons greeted "Vesting Day," i.e., the day last week when the government formally took over the nation's 80 major steel companies...