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They Meant Business. The defendants-all but three of them Greenville taxi drivers-seemed ill at ease. Few wore coats or ties; many chewed gum incessantly. Some were accompanied by their wives (in South Carolina, a man on trial for a capital crime is entitled to have his wife with...
...night of Feb. 15, a Greenville, S.C., taxi driver named Thomas Watson Brown was robbed and then stabbed to death by a passenger. Police thought the passenger was a 24-year-old Negro named Willie Earle. They arrested him and put him in jail at nearby Pickens. In the early morning of Feb. 17, a mob of white men went to Pickens, got Willie Earle out of jail and lynched him (TIME...
...time with Ed Gilstrap. The main body of his evidence lay in the statements signed by 26 of the defendants. The statements named names, times, places. Without them, the state had a flimsy case. Sam Wratt started to read the statement of Willie Eugene Bishop. 27, one of the taxi drivers...
...costs 25,000 ($111 ) or more. How do you spend the money? Well, you have to rent the swords. That's 5,000. Then there are the doctors -another 5,000. Then a dinner for your seconds-10,000. And of course you have to take a taxi. It's too much. I don't know anyone I dislike well enough to pay 25,000 lire to fight. Not even Gianfranco...
...statement attributed to George M. Sovington, a taxi driver, and read to the jury, said that Hurd shouted "Let's get it over with," shot the Negro, reloaded and shot him again...