Word: underwoods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...started a couple of weeks ago, when a Negro woman reported that her 17-year-old boy, Robert McKinney, had disappeared and had probably been murdered. Sheriff Marshall was too busy, so he turned everything over to a go-getting private detective named Charles R. Underwood...
...Yassuh, Yassuh." The first thing Underwood did, with the help of Deputy Sheriff Homer Sheffield, was to round up 30 Negroes. He finally narrowed his suspects down to four, then herded them into the sheriff's back room. As Sheriff Marshall explained: "I was not there, but about 9 or 10 o'clock, after some heat probably had been applied to try to get the truth, one of them said, 'Yassuh, yassuh, we hit him in the head.'" Underwood got "confessions" signed by three of the prisoners-Jesse James Jr., Amos Redmond and Jesse Davis-admitting...
Wave of Shame. In the shocked silence that followed, Detective Underwood scurried back to his home in nearby Cleveland, Miss. Sheriff Marshall cleared his throat embarrassedly, said: "I don't know what I could do to Underwood. As for Sheffield, he's only been with the office a few months." But then the storm broke and the whole ugly story came out. A doctor reported that all four Negroes had been brutally beaten across the buttocks; two were unable to return to work after they were released from jail. Galloway was sent to the hospital ("I told them...
...Chamber of Commerce called a special meeting and an officer said "a wave of disgust, indignation and shame" had swept the town. In the face of such civic outrage, slow-moving Sheriff Marshall decided to fire Deputy Sheffield after all. Newsmen began looking into the background of Private Eye Underwood. They discovered he had been given a three-year sentence for the stickup of a Chicago bottling firm in 1947, and was wanted as a parole violator. He was slapped into jail, protesting that he would "rather die" than go back to Chicago...
...about the tobacco industry, he has strictly obeyed the seen-but-not-heard injunction directed at all freshman Congressmen. In his debut as a Senator, he plans to follow the same course. "I haven't tried to be anything more as yet than a good listener," explained Tom Underwood, "and I can't think of any place where that quality will seem more distinguished than in the 'Senate...