Word: sheriffs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...murmuring knots in the dusty, farm-town streets. Soon, the small angry knots had. become one 125-man mob pulling up at the Tavares courthouse in a 20-car caravan. Most of the mob stayed behind while its leaders walked up the steps to talk with big, easygoing Sheriff Willis McCall. "Willis," said one,"we want them niggers...
Buckshot for a Juke Joint. The sheriff let himself down on the steps and talked softly. "You know that when you elected me, I was sworn to uphold the law," he said. "And I have to protect my prisoners." Anyway, he added, the prisoners had been rushed off to another jail for safekeeping. (A third suspect was in the jail at the time, but was sneaked off later...
...looked for a while as though Alabama's campaign against its hooded mobsters was getting somewhere. Seventeen white men, including a former deputy sheriff, were arrested for flogging, molesting and intimidating their fellow citizens in the Birmingham area. William Hugh Morris, a Birmingham roofing contractor and state director of Alabama's Federated Ku Klux Klan Inc., was jailed for refusing to give the court a roster of Klan members. A new grand jury was appointed, .and instructed to keep the investigation rolling. Said State Attorney General Albert A. Carmichael: "There will be no let up. We shall strike...
...reporters and all made the coroner nervous. Leaning on his meat counter, he declared: "I am still making a desperate effort to apprehend the guilty party." Sheriff Hatcher called in the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, and dug the bullets out of Picky Pie. At week's end, the G.B.I, arrested two white men on suspicion. They figured there were more, and were still looking for them...
...newspaper plant. When Crowder went to the bank with $800 in back payments, he learned that his mortgage had been sold for $8,500 to "my worst enemies." The syndicate, headed by Oilman E. D. Given, promptly slapped a judgment on Crowder's property, and the sheriff tried to seize the press...