Word: shotgun
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Guilty Still paralyzed by a bullet in his spine, Negro Sharecropper Thomas Harris raised himself painfully from his stretcher and pointed at the defendant. It was 25-year-old Windol Whitt, he swore, who had stood at the back door of his house with a shotgun the night three of his children were murdered and another wounded by three drunken white hoodlums. By Mississippi law, that was all the prosecutor had to prove. Last week an all-white jury in the little town of Kosciusko (pop. 4,291) brought in the verdict...
...Shotgun Blast. In Walhalla, S.C., another jury listened to an even darker story. It was told by 14-year-old John Henry Davis, a frightened Negro boy. He was in the living room of "Uncle Mike" Rice's farmhouse on the night of November 12 when two white men rapped on the front door. Uncle Mike answered and he heard a voice asking what time it was. Before Rice could reply, a shotgun blast ripped into his leg, another tore him across the belly...
Four days later, 22 miles southeast of Pell City in Talladega, a molder and sometime Methodist minister named Roy Heath tore up his Klan membership papers, said to his wife, "Maude, pray for me," kissed her, and then, after she left for church took down his shotgun and killed himself. His three sons and his two nephews told state investigators a bizarre and helpful story. One of the nephews, at Heath's urging, had replaced a broken glass window in a maroon Chevrolet the night of the Hurst murder. Heath had confessed to his sons that he took part...
Dead Quail, No. Within five minutes Brownie froze in a perfect point. He stood unflinchingly as his professional trainer, a quiet, rawboned outdoorsman named George Evans, dismounted and fired a shotgun in the air. Quail drummed up out of the grass (birds are not killed at out-of-season trials), and Brownie raced away again. After that he performed with brilliance, steadiness and wisdom. Spunky Pete disgraced himself by racing clear out of view and staying lost for 32 minutes, but Brownie went on hunting faultlessly and tirelessly hour after hour. When he was finally called in, tongue lolling, chest...
...Little All-America." Was that his penalty for playing with a school in football's minor leagues? To show how they felt, admirers showered him with gifts: a new Studebaker, a $1,000 diamond ring, two suits of clothes, matched luggage, a television set, a 12-gauge shotgun and a year's supply of ammunition...