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...Charles Stuart knew this. By playing on the latent fear of "Black violence," Stuart almost escaped blame for the murder of his wife and soon-expected child. Stuart guessed correctly that the majority of white society would accept the fact that a Black man killed an innocent white woman without question. More than that, he knew that the majority of whites would be so intent on immediate retribution that they wouldn't closely investigate his story...
This mob mentality condemned William Bennett for the Stuart murder before trial. Similarly, mobs lynched hundreds of innocent Black men at the turn of the century for alleged attacks against white women. Eighty years ago, the accusation of one white person was sufficient evidence to convict a Black of any crime. Have we gotten any better since...
...local media and the Boston police department were willing participants in Charles Stuart's hate campaign. Even the national media were all too eager to sensationalize the killing of a white pregnant woman and her unborn child by a "savage" Black. Other murders that day, such as the slaying of James Moody, a Black man, did not receive one one-hundredth the press coverage...
...actions of the Boston Herald staff. The Herald had substantial evidence that cast doubt on Stuart's story, but did not print it until after Stuart's disappearance. What good is the freedom of the press if newspapers won't print the truth...
RATHER than doubt the word of Stuart, the police intimidated Mission Hill residents into pointing the finger at Bennett. The police assumed Bennett had committed the crime because he had a previous record and he happened to live in the area where the crime took place...