Word: sheriffs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hoisted a fiery cross after his election-eve speech. In Bulloch County, Klansmen deposited a coffin on the doorstep of one Negro. In the piney woods area of Montgomery County, a 28-year-old Negro named Isaiah Nixon asked if he could vote. He was warned not to, the sheriff said, but voted anyhow. That night two men appeared at his house, shot him dead in front of his wife and six children...
...There are trigger-happy, sadistic law officers in the South, too many of them. But I challenge Mr. Sprigle to produce any sheriff who has either won or even run on such a platform, who was ever re-elected after a term characterized by the slaying of guiltless, unarmed Negroes. Mr. Sprigle is guilty of slanted selectivity throughout his narrative...
...Polk County, a Democratic pocket in the Republican southeast area, Southern tempers boiled over. Three men were killed and five wounded. The National Guard had to be rushed in. When the votes were tabulated, a non-partisan Good Government League had swept the ruthless organization of ex-Sheriff Burch Biggs, longtime Crump henchman, out of office...
Brief Encounter. In Hagerstown, Md., Deputy Sheriff Robert Miller and City Policeman Harry Frush surveyed the scene of the crash, handed each other tickets for reckless driving...
...brunette with a jealous husband got the Dade County, Fla. sheriff's office to give her a lie detector test, went home with a letter certifying that she had been a faithful wife...