Word: watt
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...justice. Greenville County deputy sheriffs and city police jumped into action. In a few days, with a hand from the FBI, they rounded up 31 men, got signed statements from 26 of them admitting participation in the lynching. The State Attorney General assigned a crack prosecutor, Samuel Ruth Watt of Spartanburg, to the case. In March, a grand jury indicted all 31 of the men for the murder of Willie Earle...
...Give Me the Gun." Reserving decision, Judge Martin ruled that they should be conditionally admitted into evidence. Sam Watt began to read. Willie Bishop's statement said that, at 3 a.m. on Feb. 17, he was in the Yellow Cab Co. office when he heard talk "about going over to Pickens . . . to get the Negro who had cut Mr. Brown." The drivers bought whiskey, drank a lot of it. Soon a caravan of cabs was on its way to Pickens...
Midway in the second day, selection of an all-white jury was completed. Prosecutor Watt got down to work. His first witness was J. Ed Gilstrap, 62, the jailer at Pickens. Ed told about turning Willie Earle over to the mob. "I thought they meant business," he said, grinning. "They had a gun." Who was in the mob? Ed wasn't sure...
...Watt wasted little 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...
Looking ahead after the success of its first two post-war ventures in the literary world, the Advocate is currently making plans for an all-drama issue next November. Editor Donald B. Watt, Jr. '47 issued a preliminary request last night for contributions--particularly original one-act plays--to be submitted early in the fall term...