Word: trash
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clutching up a white ball now and then. Flapping slowly back to its nest, it would add the balls to a growing collection and sit on them, content. Perhaps it was the sport of capturing; perhaps the instinct for collecting (as crows and magpies will collect shiny or sparkling trash...
Justice wondered where to turn last week in South Carolina. At the suggestion of Governor Richards, the solicitor of Florence County re-examined Mrs. Maude Collins, about 60, a white trash woman whose testimony sent Ben Bess, a prosperous Negro farmer, to prison in 1915. Mrs. Collins had signed an affidavit this Spring confessing that she testified falsely to jail Ben Bess. On the strength of this affidavit, Governor Richards had pardoned Ben Bess in May. The re-examination of Mrs. Collins was to find if she had committed perjury (TIME, June...
...Bess is a Negro; He used to be better off than most South Carolina Negroes. He owned a good farm in Florence County. Some Negroes considered him lucky because he rented part of his land to some white trash named Collins and had his way with the Collins woman. She was about 45 years old and pretty trashy. But, she was white...
After he had had the Collins woman some time, Ben Bess went to jail for 30 years hard labor. That was in 1915. That trash, Frank Collins, hadn't minded at all about Ben Bess and the woman, until Ben Bess decided not to rent his land any more. Then Frank Collins brought the charge that has lynched many a nigger. The Collins woman, old Maude, backed him up. They said Ben Bess had raped...
Perhaps it was to prove that he really felt badly about it that Governor Richards last week gave the Ben Bess case a new twist. He wrote a letter to the solicitor of the Florence district and suggested that he present to the Grand Jury the white trash woman, Maude Collins, now 60 years old and expecting Death soon...