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THE RICHMOND PLANET Virginia State Library VIRGINIA AUG 4 1920 STATE LIBRARY MEDLEY ESCAPES CHAIR! Pleaded Guilty----Throws Self on Mercy of Court. Judge Julien Gunn Meets Issue--Absolutely No Motive Shown for the Crime Tragic Scenes in the Court Room as Sylvester Medley Faces Trial for Life. VOLUME XLV, NO. 39 MED Pleaded Judge Julie Trag (Special by John Mitchell, Jr.) Sr. vester Medley, the 17 year-old colored youth, charged with the murder of a sixteen-year-old white boy was tried in the Circuit Court of Henrico county, Tuesday, July 31st, 1928 and with a jury trial waived, sentenced by Judge Julien Gunn to imprisonment for life in the Virginia penitentiary upon his plea of guilt. He was represented ably by Attorney Charles W. Moss of this city. Convened Promptly Promptly at 10 o'clock last Tuesday morning, the Circuit Court of Henrico county convened at the Court House in this city, with Judge Julien Gunn, presiding, Sheriff W. T. Saw performed his duty, having previously brought in and placed at bus Sylvester Medley, the dads-kids colored you to the trial in an trial for his life. He had shot and wounded Henry L. Haskins, shot and wounded Henry F. Grimmell and shot and kill* Samuel E. Grimmell. At this time, he was on trial for the murder of Samuel E. Grimmell and the other indictments were not in evidence. A Peculiar Condition There was no excitement in the court-room and the surroundings were sombre, for the time-being and uninteresting. The prospective jurors were in the seats and the number of colored persons present did not exceed twelve, while many seats were unoccupied. It was a listless aggregation of on-lookers and gave no indication that a human being was to go on trial for his life with the electric chair looming up menacingly in the distance. The witnesses were sworn, the list of jurors called by Sheriff Seay, after which Attorney Moss, representing the accused announced to the court that a jury trial would be waived and the final decision in the matter be left to the judgment of his honor. Commission Reports Commonwealth's Attorney H. M. Ratcliffe called Dr. Henry, Superintendent of the Central Hospital at Petersburg, Va., to the stand to give the findings of the court's sasal judgment on Sylvester Medley. He stated the commission found him sane and he passed over the following report: **Knowing Timeline** July 26, 1928. To the Honorable Julien Gunn. To the Honorable Julien Gunn. To the Honorable Julien Gunn, Judge of the Circuit Court of Henrico County, Richmond, Virginia. Sir: We, the undersigned commission appointed to examine into the mental condition of Sylvester Medley, charged with a felony respectfully report that we find him not insane. Dr. Henry was cross-examined by both the Commonwealth's attorney and by Attorney Charles W. Moss. Dr. Henry said, "We thought he was fairly up to the average of his race in intelligence. The Juvenile Court's rating was 69. In some respects, he was above the average. Attorney Moss had him correct himself by asking him if it were not 63 instead of 69. He admitted his mistake, "Where is the border line?" asked Attorney Moss. "Can't define it," was reply. "No one can define it." Why do you say that when he is above 60 it indicates a good condition? Did you read the statement in the Juvenile Court report that Sylvester Medley had a child 10 years of age?" Dr. Henry repeated that he did not say where the border line of sanity and insanity was. It has never been fixed. That Wound in the Side He wanted to know if the boy was emotional and he wanted to know if he displayed any. Dr. Trainum, County Coroner was the next witness. The wound in Samuel Grimmell's side covered a radius of five inches. The shot penetrated above the hip. He displayed some of the shot taken from the wound. They appeared to be No. 6 shot. He showed a wad he picked up on the floor and some of the shells and the gun were in evidence. He estimated that Medley was about 15 feet away, when the gun was fired. Mr. Grimmell's Statement Henry F. Grimmell took the stand, he said, "On the morning of June 30th, about a quarter of six, Mrs. Haskins went into the bath-room. Then she went into Samuel's room. He is my adopted son and the son of Mrs. Haskins. She calls him, "Baby." She told him to come and they would go into town and buy some things. She went down the steps. She had just gotten down-stairs, when the girl went off. Then the boy went off the second time. Then he got off my artificial leg and I went to the door at the step, Sylvester banked away at me. **Struck A Glancing Blow** The ball snuck the wall a glancing blow and then went into my side, right side. I crawled up to my room of my revolver and I looked out of the window and I blazed away at him. He ducked around the house and I have never seen him since until this moment. Commonwealth Attorney Ratcliffe asked, "Did you know of any reason, why he should have shot?" "No." "Have you ever had any trouble with him?" "No." "Did you pay him?" "Yes." "Did he complain about his pay?" "No." helped Mrs. Haskins about the kitchen and he did farm work. He has always been a good good boy. So far as I know he is now a satisfactory man; this gun was my gun. **Gun Used Before** It was used by me and by Sammy, Sammy had used it the evening before. Sylvester slept in a house about 60 feet from the main house. There were three rooms and he slept out there alone. I was out of the house the evening before from 7:30 to 10:30. Sammy and Sylvester were friendly. They played together. They had no trouble except those that children have. I paid no attention to it. The Sister's Testimony Miss Evelyn Haskins took the stand. She broke down and sobbed as she told her story, but she quickly recovered. That morning around 6 o'clock, I heard a shot and I ran down stairs and I found my mother lying on the floor. I heard another shot and I heard my little brother and mother scream that he had been shot I looked up. Sylvester was standing there with the gun and I asked him not to shoot me. Mr. Grimmell was at the top of the stairs and he shot at him. I went from mother's room to my room and I called for help. I looked out of the window. I saw Mr. Meredith and called to him to help. He got out of his car. He never came in. He went for help. My brother was 16. Sylvester always told us that his birthday was in March. He often said he was 19 in March. He had been working there a year, possibly a little over. Brother screamed that he had been shot. Attorney Moss asked, "Do you know of any reason why he should have shot?" "No, we never had any trouble. He got along. He would steal little things, fruit and the like. He was always in good humor, and we never had any trouble. The kitchen always stays open, and Sylvester had access to come in at any time he wanted. The door was never locked. The front door was always locked, but I do not think the closed doors were. Officer J. E. Cook, of the Richmond Police Department, said: "On the mning of June 30th, about 7:15, I got in the car with Mr. Yancey and went straight out to the house, where the shooting occurred. Mrs. Haskins was in the up-stairs room in bed. She told me that the boy shot her. I saw the wall where the shot glanced and struck Mr. Grimmell. The boy, Samuel, said that Sylvester shot him. There were newspapers in the basement. Matches were on the papers. Stuff was scattered all around. I asked Samuel why the boy should do such a thing. He said he did not know. Sylvester had shot his mother and then he had shot him. Knew No Reason. He didn't know of any reason why he should have done this. I got the boy's mother's address and I went to her house, and found out that the boy, Sylvester, had not been home. Samuel died about 10 o'clock at the hospital. Sergeant I. G. Cousins said: "I arrived home at Thirty-fourth and Marshall Streets about 12 o'clock. RICHMOND ,VIRGIN1A, AUGUST 4 1928 I arrested Sylvester at the corner shortly afterwards. He said Mrs. Haskins had fussed with him about meat and about his not paying a bill and he thought of it that night and something told him, kill her. He got the gun that morning and when she came down he shot her. **Shot Boy, Too.** "Then when the boy came down he shot him. He looked up and saw Mr. Grimmell at the top of the steps and he shot at him. He then went into the house, got his clothes, got on a horse, rode away, tied the horse in the woods, got on a street car and came to Richmond." Mrs. Grimmell testified that she went to the house and found everything pulled to pieces. She told about the paper in the funeral room and about the matches, which under a cross-examination by Attorney Moss, she admitted to the safety matches, which would not light without the box. **Officers Testify.** Deway Lambert testified, also Officer F. P. Bowis. He went to the Grimmell home. Mr. Blankenship said that Sylvester Medley would not talk. He said that he had made a statement to Mr. Cousins. He couldn't tell why he did it. County Officer J. W. Shepherd testified Gray Yancey was getting ready to go to work, when he heard the shooting. At this point, the Commonwealth rested, but shortly afterwards resumed to put Mr. Phillips, probation officer of the Richmond Juvenile Court, on the stand. He had Sylvester Medley in charge at the time of the murder. On Probation. Sylvester was out on probation in the employ of Mr. Henry F. Grimmell and Mrs. Haskins. He had been turned over to his department as a delinquent and an incorrigible. He received April 29, 1924, and his age then was stated to be thirteen years. He was beyond control and had stolen an automobile. He was turned over to the Virginia Manual Training School, May 5, 1927. On June 14, 1927, he was charged by D. W. Duling as delinquent in that he stored liquor at 112 N. Seventeenth Street. Charge July 12, 1927, continued until July 19, 1927. Paroled to be placed in the home of Mrs. Haskins, at Dumbarton, Va., being placed there by Mr. Bolling. He was entered up as being born September 12, 1911, ward of the Manual Labor School, examined June 22, 1927, Children's Memorial Clinic, sixteen years of age and with the mind of a child ten years and two months of age. He was rated at 63, in the border line group. Queen Watkins, mother of Sylvester Watkins, took the stand and produced the family Bible. It showed that Sylvester was born March 20, 1911. There were some erasures, which she swore were made at the time she wrote the date of birth in the Bible. Cross-examination by the Commonwealth's Attorney and Judge Julien Gunn did not materially shake her statement. Loved Women. She left Monroe in 1912. Her husband's name was Walter Medley. He did not leave her. She left him. When closely questioned she said she left him because he loved other women too well. She told of her troubles with her son, due to the fact that people she paid to look after him failed to do so. She told between sobs of her lefthand places in order to eat food for herself and herself. She broke down com- (Continued on page 4) The Main Street entrance is available. You can reach comfortable seats from 2 P.M. to 11 P.M. Price, twenty-five cents. You'll forget your troubles. ANNOUNCEMENT. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Balley announce the marriage of their daughter, Inez Berrince, to Mr. John D. Randolph, formerly of this city, but now of Rochester, N. Y. The ceremony was performed by Rev. B. M. Ward, friend of the groom, June 24, 1928. They are making their home at 1504 N. Goodman St., Rochester N. Y. THOMAS TAYLOR COURTED DEATH Jordon's Bullets Killed Him. Quarreled With Wife and Threatened Neighbors--Graphic Recital of the Witnesses. (Special by John Mitchell, Jr.) It was a strange story told to Coroner E. G. Hill, at the City Hall, Friday, July 27th concerning the fatal shooting of Thomas Taylor, who quarreled with his wife at their home on North 26th Street, threw bricks into his own window and then went on a rampage to kill "Spider" and "to blow up 26th Street". A body shot up, a broken arm, a bullet through the lung and heart and a resting place upon a "cooling board" in Funeral Director Robert C. Scott's morgue, were the results of this drunken orgie. On the other hand Norman Jordan is in St. Phillips Hospital, having been shot twice by Taylor, while his brother Rogers, who is said to have fired the bullets, which really ended Taylor's career is going about under ball with a bruised and gashed head as a result of Taylor's hammering him with the pistol after the weapon did not go off, in his attempt to kill Rogers. Hon. Perry W. Howard's Letter. WASHINGTON, D. C., July 31, 1928 Honorable John Mitchell, Jr., % Richmond Planet, Richmond, Virginia, Dear Friend I read your paper this week and I do want you to know that that was certainly a splendid write up that you gave. May you live long. Your friend, PERRY W. HOWARD. Robert Nichols' Statement Robert Nichols Statement Robert Nichols, 1108 N. 26th St. said that on Sunday morning, July 22nd, he was on 26th and S Streets. Taylor came out and said, "Where is that Spider?" Jordan came down the street. He heard three shots fired in Rogers Jordan's yard, he histories in the house in the street, Norman Jordan is in the hospital Taylor came out of the house saying he was shot. Norman Jordan came out of the alley and shot him. Taylor shot Jordan twice. Rogers Jordan lives three doors from Taylor. Rex Trent There Too. Rev. Edward Trent, 504 E. Federal Street, said that on that Sunday morning, he was on his way to his church in Hanover. He had some of his members living over there and he went by to get Mrs. Berry to take her down. He also wanted to see her brother. Just as he was about to sit down, a crowd of men went on by. They were talking. A young man came out a few doors and asked that he supposed that they were all ready. Some one said that he was going to shoot somebody. A young man asked of the yard. He said, what are you raising excitement about? Nobody's shot but me. I am shot to death." He attempted to sit on the curbstone. Shot Him Three Times A man came out of the alley and shot the man three or four times. That's all I know about it. Melvin James, 1321 N. 26th Street, said, "I live next door to Tom Taylor. I was in front of my gate on the sidewalk. Norman Jordan went into his brother's gate, into his brother's alley. He met Tom Taylor coming out. Taylor asked Normif he wanted some too. He shot Normin in the leg. As Normin started to go into the house, Taylor shot him in the back. Taylor came and sat on the curbstone and then he got pistol and sat on his porch. Now he got his pistol and shot at Taylor three or four times. Norman was in his brother's yard when he shot at Taylor. Wife Testifies Mrs. Susie Taylor, 1319 N. 26th Street, wife of the dead man, with whom he had been previously quarrelling said, "My husband had some kind of document with Rogers Jordan (Continued on page 8) Hon. Perry W. Howard's Letter. WASHINGTON, D. C., July 31, 1928 Honorable John Mitchell, Jr., % Richmond Planet, Richmond, Virginia, Dear Friend I read your paper this week and I do want you to know that that was certainly a splendid write up that you gave. May you live long. Your friend, PERRY W. HOWARD. I read your paper this week and I do want you to know that that was certainly a splendid write up that you gave. May you live long. Your friend, PERRY W. HOWARD --- --- Dear Friend REV. COLLINS' CALL. Rev. T. F. Collins, of Richmond, Va. has been called to the pastorate of the Oak Grove Baptist Church, Louisa County, Va., which Church was formerly pastored by Rev. H. H. Gaines, D. D., who is now the assistant pastor to Dr. T. J. King, of Pittsburgh, Pa. Rev. Collins has been pastor of the Lebanon Baptist Church, Tunstall, Va. four years. He was ordained for this Church from the Fourth Baptist Church, Richmond, Va., where he holds his membership Make your engagements now. You can take your wife or your girl there for twenty-five cents. Children, only ten cents. Read the Planet. It is five cents per copy. Phone us your order and it will be delivered at your door. We specialize on news items not to be found in any other journals. That is why colored folks and some white folks, too, for that matter, want the Planet. Mr. and Mrs. E. R. (Rannle) Carter, Jr., of New York, N. Y. arrived in the city this week and will spend some time with Mr. Carter's parents at 700 N. Fifth St. Mrs. Evlyn H. Harris, wife of Mr. Robert Harris, and daughter of Rev. and Mrs. J. Andrew Bowler, has returned to her home in New York City after a two weeks vacation spent here with her parents. IDEAL SOCIETY NEWS The Fifth Annual Outing of the National Ideal Benefit Society of Richmond District will go to Bayshore, Buckroe Beach, Va. Thursday, August 9th. Trails will leave Main Street Station 7:20 A.M. All members of the Order and friends are invited to go and sound a day of real pleasure Mrs. Lelia W. Blankett, National Lecturer, has recently returned to the office, having organized two new lodges in the past two weeks. The 16th Anniversary Exercises of Richmond and South Richmond of the National Ideal Benefit Society were a great success, being largely attended and very inspirational. All of Richmond seems highly pleased with the new Ideal Hall. The workmen are putting on the finishing touches. The concensus of opinion is that everything is much in keeping with its name "IDEAL" within and without. On Friday night, July 24th, Twilight Lodge, No. 1, held a great meeting. Officers for the ensuing term were elected, and delegates to the 16th Annual Convention chosen. Mr. A. W. Holmes, founder of the Order, was shown a mark of distinct honor by his clerical force and some of the officials of the Order at the 16th Anniversary Exercises held at the 6th Mt. Zion Baptist Church, Sunday, July 15th, when he was presented a genuine leather Gladstone (traveling) Bag. It was truly a surprise to the Supreme Master, who, in words most appreciative expressed his sincere gratitude for the valuable token. There is a busy time just now within the Ideal circle making preparations for the coming convention which will be the evening the first Tuesday in September. To the Officers and Members of the 10 The Owens and National Ideal Benefit Society: The family of the deceased, Mrs. Hannah Timberlake, a member of your Lodge wishes to thank you all for your loyalty and devotion in her illness as well as in her last hours. May the Lord abide with you all until the perfect day. From the family. MR. E. TIMBERLAKE, MRS. M. JOHNSON, MR. J. WILLIS. PRICE, FIVE CENTS. AIR! Court. the Crime Life. The Shepherd's Twilight to Bay Shore, Aug. 25. The Shepherd's Twilight is going strong. More than a thousand ticks are already in circulation. The popularity of the Shepherd's Annual Excursion is yielding an abundant harvest in the Twilight. Hundreds of people, who were unable to leave their jobs and go on the Annual Excursion last month are planning to go on this Twilight Saturday evening. August 25. Those people who work up to 1:00 and 1:30 Satur day will be able to go with us to Eay Shore on the 25th because our train will not leave Richmond until 3:00 P. M. No one in Richmond need miss this wonderful trip to the Beach. The Shepherd Band's Trolley Party to Ashland on the 30th was a fine exhibition of cooperation. The Pro vassal Battalion, Uniform Rank of the Order never showed their loyalty to the Band in no unmistakable way. They sold the tickets, and went on the Trolley to see that it was a success. Captains Lillie Baskerville and P. C. James should be roundly commended for the way they were able to line up their companies behind this Trolley. The Band men feel themselves under many obligations to Unity and Purity Companies for their valuable support in this owing. Grand Shepherd Ora Brown Stokes is in Washington this week attending the National Convention of the Federation of Colored Women's Clubs. She is a very distinguished member of this convention, at the present time, she is President of the South-Eastern Division of the National Federation. Shepherds all over the Brotherhood are turning their eyes toward Richmond, where the 18th Annual Grand Session of the Order will be held September 11 and 12. This is going to be a great convention and every Pold should be represented. Ten new members were reported last week by Deputy F. J. Dias. These members represented additions to Pride of Croaker and Blooming Rose. NEGRO HISTORY TO BE STUDIED BY FORUM CLASS. The course in Negro History being offered to the citizens of Richmond by the Forum Classes is receiving much attention and is already an assured success. Requests for regis tration are coming in and plans for getting the class under way are com pleed. The first lesson will be given Wednesday night' August 22, 8 P. M. at the Fifth Street Baptist Church, where the class is located. The text used for the first period will contemplate a study of the great Cushite civilization which anteceded the much vaunted Egyptian civilization of 5000 B. C. Forum Classes are two years old and have accomplished much in the teaching of correct and effective English. Half of all class time is given to English instruction and this rule will be followed in the Negro History class. Persons desiring to register may meet the class Wednesdays 8 P. M. at Fifth St. Baptist Church or see R. C. Mitchell, R. W. Moss or Amos C. Clark. & YOUMER NIC EROD. SiS SAL CSLMHINALS HE TALKING MOVIES Dread of big business fades. Raskob, financial bead of the four billion dollar General Motors Company, is Democratic National Chairman, Owen D. Young, chair man of the Board of the General MElectric Company, one of the big- gest corporations in America, is ‘asked to. ran for Governor” by ‘Democrats in New York William Jennings Bryan, \where phe dwells in bliss, doubtless shudders at all this.” But these are practical days; big, busineys is Dractical, and it is well to retog~ Rize things as they are. Some Calvinists, it seems, are still PEsivinists lke old john." Queen Wilhelmina, of Holland, will not nd the Olympic games. Calvin- lists in Holland are urged to stay ay. from what stern preachers ‘eal “a carnival of the flesh.” Dutch Calvinists say the Olympic Ce from Gol- 8 paganism "A majority of human beings bave {abandoned the John Calvin theory, ‘whieh included the burning alive of {Dr. Servetus on slight provocation, ‘believing that the good Lord wants tpeople to enjoy themselves occa~ ‘sionally Crime organization seems to jreach almost everywhere. 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In Boudoirland BY Natalie Hurston BEAUTY'S 14 POINTS All women cannot be "Miss Amer- icas" any more than all men can be Mister Coolidge. But where a man has only one chance in 15,000,000 (if my statistics are correct) to be president of the United States, on every woman's face there are fourteen chances to be beautiful. Following are the "Fourteen Points" of facial beauty in the order of their importance toward facial perfection: 1. Eyes - - - - count 15 per cent 2. Hair - - - - " 13 " " " 3. Teeth - - - - " 11 " " " 4. Eyes - - - - " 9 " " " 5. Eyelashes - - - - " 8 " " " 6. Chin - - - - " 8 " " " 7. Nose - - - - " 8 " " " 8. Nose - - - - " 6 " " " 9. Neck - - - - " 6 " " " 10. Lips - - - - " 5 " " " 11. Forehead - - - - " 4 " " " 12. Cheek lines - - - - " 2 " " " 13. Eyebrows - - - - " 2 " " " 14. Cheeks - - - - " 1 " " " I, upon taking out your hand mirror and figurine penell, you discover yourself batting a mere 60 per cent don't be discouraged. Most women bat less than 50. 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SMITH (Democrat) (Put an X before the one you intend to vote) After filling out this Trial Ballot, please Mail or Bring it to the office of This Newspaper What TICKET Did You Vote Last Presidential Campaign? (Republican—Democrat—46) WHICH ONE WILL GET YOUR VOTE? HERBERT HOOVER ALFRED E. SMITH Was he guilty? the quiet...the heavy hush of the court room was shattered as the prisoner cried, "not guilty, Your Honor, not guilty"! the Judge looked down and repeated, "MURDER IN THE FIRST DEGREE" sing the tale.... 8581 MURDER IN THE FIRST DEGREE NIGHTMARE BLUES Guitar & Piano Accomp. ```markdown ``` REVERENT Published Every Saturday by John Mitchell, at RI North Fourth Street, Ridgemont, Pa. JOHN MITCHELL, JR....EDITOR all communications intended for publication should be to reach us by Wednesday. Entered at the Post Office at Richmond, Virginia, as second class matter. 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High or low, rich or poor, we all have our "ups and downs," our disappointments and bereavements, with the grave in the distance as the end of all of our hopes, through which we must achieve the celestial bliss of the hereafter. You can get from earth to Heaven but there is no record of where you can get from Hell to the same place. The latter place is a veritable trap, with the difference that no one can let you out but God and He has consistently refused to do it. A colored citizen, male or female, is naturally a Republican, but one or the other can be unnaturally a Democrat. Brother Hoover's managers had better get the votes first and look at the color of the person casting them afterwards and Brother Smith's managers had better do the same thing. When it comes to law Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt is a success, but when it comes to politics, she is as big a blunderbuss as the proverbal "bull in a china-shop." Her recent escapades in "wet" New York and "dry" Mississippi prove the accuracy of our conclusion. She claims to be a Republican and is anxious to bring about the success of Hon. Herbert Hoover, of California in his candidacy for the Presidency of the United States. Like the Hon. J. Thomas Heflin, of Alabama, she is yelling for one candidate (Hoover) and actually working for the other (Smith). If you do not believe it, watch the Negro vote in the Southern, and in the Northern and Western States. Under the direction of Assistant Attorney-General of the United States, Mrs. Mabel Walker Willi brandt, a raid was made on the wealthy club houses in New York recently at a cost of from $60,000 to $75,000 to the United States Government. These prohibition rum-suckers paid as high as $42.00 per bottle for fine champagne and $10.00 per pint for whiskey. They called this conducting a moral crusade. They might well have employed men to stay with lewd women or lewd women to cohabit with immoral men in the solemn name of virtue and the law. This is the same Mrs. Willebrandt who took up the task of hounding leading colored men in the Southland at the behest of Negro-hating white men in the Southland, despite the fact that these colored men had violated no laws of the United States and was arrested upon charges which were ridiculous. SYLVESTER MEDLEY'S TRIAL The trial of Sylvester Medley was interesting and complicated from many viewpoints. He was under eighteen years of age and accordingly was under the absolute control of the legal department known as the Juvenile Court. He could not even be tried for murder, although he was admittedly guilty, until this Juvenile Department had on its own motion sent or transferred him to a criminal court of record. Once there, he was subject to the treatment of any other adult citizen. Sylvester Medley was in the custody of the Richmond Juvenile Court, and was out on parole under the nominal supervision of a probation officer of that court. He was a ward of the State and when he committed that foul crime in Henrico County, the Juvenile Department was responsible. It was this phase of the case that complicated the situation and denied to that eminent jurist, Hon. Julien Gunn, free action. Then there was a legal aspect to the whole affair, the admitted absence of a motive for the crime. Murder without motive cannot be legally elevated to first degress murder, and Sylvester Medley could not have been legally made to die in the electric chair, although actually in the absence of an appeal caused by a lack of money to contend for his rights, he might have been lynched by officers of the law in the absence of proper efforts to save his life. It was this fact that caused his counsel to ask for life imprisonment and to accept the same in the face of existing conditions. He had killed Samuel E. Grimmell, a white sixteen-year-old youth, without malice. He had shot Mrs. Nellie Haskins, a white female, without malice. He had shot Henry F. Grimmell, white, without malice. To try all of these charges against him would have aggregated life imprisonment, and to now try him for these offenses cannot increase the sentence which he and his counsel have accepted. A jury of white citizens sat in the court room during the entire proceedings, while the judge listened patiently to the evidence and heard Sylvester Medley's remarkable plan for that mercy that he had denied to others. Virginia has taken a long step forward in this case. Race prejudice is on the wane and justice is on the throne again when the law is respected, a Negro youth charged with the murder of a white youth, and the wounding of a white woman and a white man, is in orderly fashion snatched from a mob and before a sober, thoughtful legal tribunal sentenced to life imprisonment instead of being "burned to death" in an electric chair. Every one should have stood at attention in honor and admiration as Judge Julien Gunn retired to his chamber from his post of duty July 31, 1928, in the Circuit Court of Henrico County, Virginia. Medley Escapes (Continued from Page 1) pletely and then it was that Sylvester Medley, who had sat most of the time, with his face partly covered by his hands and with down-cast eyes, broke down, too, and exclaimed: "Don't cry, mother; Please don't cry!" An Affecting Scene. It was an affecting scene. Mrs. Haskins was not mean to Sylvester so far as she knew. She had brought things to her. The Bible was given to her by her father in 1909 and in this she had written Sylvester's age at the time of his birth. After a whispered conversation with his counsel, Sylvester took the stand in his own defense. He said: "Your Honor, sir, I am seventeen years of age." When asked why he committed the crime, he replied: "I don't know, sir. Your Honor. If you will allow me on Sunday before Mrs. Haskins and her daughter went to New York, she asked me if I could fix the radiator to her car. I told her I would try. Wanted To Go Home. Wanted to Go Home. "She went to the new theatre, the Mosque, and I asked her if I could go and see my mother. Mr. Grimmell said: 'Why in the Pell did you go to town, when stayed here, when she go. One Sunday it. May, she was going to Mr. Richardson's funeral. I washed the dishes. She left some meat. I saw a funny paper and I read it and fell off to sleep. The dogs went into the kitchen through the screen door and got the meat. I told Mr. Miller, who worked there, about the meat and asked him to explain it to Mrs. Haskins as to how it was. More About the Meat More About the Meat. "He took some of the meat and ate it himself after the dogs had it, having cut off a portion of the meat. He would not tell me, Haskins how it happened and she thought I ate the meat, when I did not. She did not believe that Miller ate the meat. This was in May, the time Mr. Richardson died. Mr. Miller told her that he did not eat the meat. They said they were going to report me to Mr. Phillips." Sylvester Medley burst in tears, exclaiming: "I am a boy seventeen years of age and these two people, one 47 years of age and the other 55 years of age imposed on me. They treated me like a dog. I have sinned against the laws of man. I have sinned against the laws of God. I am asking you to have mercy on me. I am asking that my sins be forgiven." Loved the White Boy. With tears streaming down his cheeks, he had assumed the attitude EE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND' VIRGINIA of a penitent sinner, pleading to that able jurist upon the bench, who held his life in his hands to save him from the electric chair. It was his suave, hypnotic attorney that broke the spell, when he asked: "Did you have anything against Sam Grimmell?" "I loved Sam Grimmell like a brother. I made $5.00 per week. He was the only one that treated me like a brother. The rest of them treated me like a dog. I got up at 5:30. The gun was in the kitchen. I did not intend to kill these people. No Thought of Burning. "I did not think of killing those people or of burning the house up. I could have killed those people the night before. I could have blown her brains out and killed him and burned the house up when the two were at the supper table. Mr. Grimmell told me he had no money. I asked him to let me go to Norfolk that Saturday night. There were things I would like to do. I told her I would like to go to Atlantic City. Mrs. Haskins told me Mr. Grimmell would not get his money before the 1st or 2nd. I do not know where he got his money. He is in the real estate business. Miss Evelyn Haskins was not at home much. She treated me all right." Turned Over to Officer. Turned Over to Officer. He said he had been told that William H. Davis, for whom he worked that Saturday on Seventeenth Street, had turned him over to the officer, Davis had asked him to go with him for a long ride. When he got to Thirty-fifth and Marshall Streets, Officer Cousins had jumped upon the running board of the car and drawn a pistol on him, while Davis made believe that he did not know anything about it. He intended to give himself up. He had stayed over night in Seventeenth Street because Mrs. Scott had promised to bring his mother to see him, after which he intended to give himself up. Wanted Electric Chair He was then subjected to a searching cross-examination by Commonwealth's Attorney Rattcliffe, but he stuck to his original statement. The argument then took place. Mr. Rattcliffe said that he was willing to submit the case on the facts, but that Attorney Moss wanted to argue it. This boy is charged with the highest crime known to the law. I expect Mr. Moss to argue this case from the basis of sympathy and ask for life imprisonment. He has pleaded guilty and I ask that he be sentenced to the electric chair. The commission reported him sane. He argued the question of mentality. He spoke of the shooting, intent motive. He shot Mrs. Haskins and shot the boy he loved. His intention was to kill those four people, burn the house up and get away from there. He claimed that malice was presumed from the killing. Attorney Moss Argues. Attorney Charles W. Moss, said: "May it please, your Honor. I had not expected to argue this case or to have attempted to argue it, but my sense of duty to my client, a boy under eighteen years of age causes me to argue it. He is charged with the murder of Samuel Grimmell. All of the testimony tends to show that he loved Samuel, had nothing against him. I want you to find in one instance any evidence that there is one incintilla of malice against Samuel Grimmell. He had free access on this place. He could have committed this crime in the night-time, if arson and murder prompted the act. Remorse of the Actuset. It was 6 o'clock when the boy grabbed the gun. Is there any evidence that he put that gun in that position? There is no mediation, no evidence that he had planned this crime. He went down in that chair. Remorse came over him. He gets the horse. He never came in the city save to have his khaki breeches to protect his blue suit, when he got into the car, he took off the khaki and weed the blue. He sought employment within a block of the First Police Station of Richmond. Does that look like the work of an arch criminal? If you want to commit murder, arson and robbery, would that show sense? An Immature Boy. Ah, no. Is it not the work of a boy, an immature boy? They wanted to find a motive. He discussed the wastepaper and demonstrated that there was no ground for a suspicion of arson. I am proud of the Commonwealth's Attorney's statement when he refers to my client as a boy. Your Honor, please, you can see that he is a boy, that he is not over eighteen years of age. The uncontradicted testimony is that he is seventeen years of age. What does the record of the Juvenile Court say? That Dual Position. If he is under eighteen years of age, he is the ward of the State of Virginia. You stand, your Honor, in a dual position. Is this boy responsible for being in this court today? He has no more to do with his color than any man in this court room. It is not of his making. He throws himself at the feet of your Honor and asks for justice, tempered with mercy. Mr. Moss pictured the undone condition of Sylvester's mother. He roamed about the streets of Richmond. Is he responsible for that? Is he responsible that he is black and that the streets of this city were his dwelling place? If he had come with money, they would say, he got off because of his influence and his money. Would Get Justice. I feel confident that he will get justice. He is a child. Shall he be dealt with as though he were a man of mature years? He spoke of the time when boy criminals were hanged at the cross-roads that they might strike terror to every man, that they might strike terror to evil-doers and that there might not be any crime any more. Did it do it? No. He spoke of the juvenile statute. I am asking your Honor in all sincerity to not送 this boy, this child to the electric chair, but to order his confinement in the Virginia Penitentiary for life. I think thinks different, acts differently from a mature person or an adult. Attorney Moss said that of 140 electrocutions at the penitentiary, there had been only six persons under eighteen years of age. He did not wish it to be thought that he did not sympathize with the stricken family. If such action would bring back Samuel Grimmell to life, he would say, send this boy to the electric chair. "The Moving Finger". Attorney Charles W. Moss quoted Moore St. Bapt. Church, West Leigh St., between Kinney and Bowe Sts Dr. Gordon B. Hancock, PASTOR. --- "The Moving Finger" and finally wound up to pathetic references to Jesus upon the Cross. As he sat down the court room was hushed, while Judge Julien Gunn, whose mind had evidently been made up by the evidence and the law leaned slightly forward as Sheriff Seay ordered Sylvester Medley to stand and receive the sentence of the court. As for me, I sat next to Sylvester Medley, while his counsel sat on the other side of him. What his feelings were I am unable to describe, certainly mine are indescribable. Sentence of the Court. The tension of all was great. He said: "Sylvester Medley, you stand charged with murder in the first degree in the killing of your own playmate. Because of your own duty to pronounce sentence on you. It is the sentence of this court that you be taken to jail and be transported to the penitentiary and serve the remainder of your life there." Medley hysterically leaned forward, exclaiming: "Thank you, sir," while tears streamed down his cheeks and his mother was well-nigh hysterical with joy. Remarkable. Conclusion. Thus ended one of the most remarkable cases ever tried in this State with an ending and a setting never equalled in a court of law here. The juvenile statutes were really on trial and despite the peculiar and exasperating conditions a victory was achieved that will go far towards clarifying conditions for minors in all parts of the Southland. Judge Gunn has the courage of his convictions and there is no hesitation upon his part in executing the express mandate of the law. HENRICO COUNTY, VA. Gravel Hill Baptist Church Rev. W. L. Tuck. Pastor. At 2 P. M. Pastor Tuck preached for the May Blossom Household of Ruth. He brought a good message from Ruth 1:16. At 8 o'clock men's night was observed. All of the men acted well. Brother Paul Morris is on the sick list. Sister Tuck is still sick. J. M. ANDERSON, Renorter. FULTON NOTES At the Mt. Calvary Baptist Church last Sunday, the pastor, Rev. Cobbs, delivered a powerful sermon, both at 11:30 A. M. and 8:30 P. M. 8:30 P. M. the 16th Anniversary of the Ardella's Fold, No. 16, I. O. S. & D. of B. will take place. The Shepherd Band will be on hand and play several sacred pieces. On the 24th of July, the Rev. C. B. Jefferson, preached in the 39th Anniversary of the Mt. Vernon Baptist Church. He was accompanied by the Choir and several members of the Union Baptist Church, South Richmond. Last Sunday he had charge of the Sunday school and morning services, at the Shiho Baptist Churcn. The Rev. John B. Wilson, will preach tomorrow morning at the Shiho Baptist Church, Fulton. On the 12th of August at 8:30 P. M., Rev. C, A. Cobb will preach on the "Temptations of Christ". We are having very creditable gatherings in the evening since the pastor changed the mode of night service. CHICAGO. ILL. Hon. Arthur G. Froe, recorder of deeds, Washington, D. C., accompanied by Mrs. Froe and visit other Washingtonians, will visit Chicago during the Elk convention. Their visit is looked forward to with pleasure as they have many friends in this city. Mrs. Lougene Smith, who has spent several weeks in the city visiting with her cousins, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Burney, 5228 Indiana Ave., left during the week for her home in Lawrenceburg, Ky. 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Shelden, ex-Governor of Kebraska, is Howard to be sacrificed in the Courts and crucified in the Republican Party ? | | Let the Colored People and their organizations give the answer now, so that its reverber- ations may be heard Nov. 6, 1928 from the Atlantic to the Pacific; trom Canada to the Gulf THE RICHMOND PLANET RICHMOND, VIRGINIA The only information I have with reference to my indictment is what I have read in the daily papers. Ww I ama martyr to the cause I represent—Negro Leadership. Persecution is the price of martyrdom. Prison walls to martyrs are like palaces to the nobility. I am perfectly willing to be offered up and pay the price of martyrdom. A cause is certainly far greater than the individual. I have been pursued politically and in the civ civil courts, and now my political enemies seek to have me crucified in the criminal courts. I have no idea what the charge is. Whatever it is, I know tha chat it is the back-fire from the current of a righteous cause, and this cause will go on, whether I am temporarily incarcerated or not. I am guilty of no wrong doing, directly or indirectly. My ''lily-white'' adversaries have enlisted the aid of power- ful influence, material, political and otherwise, and I am not sur- prised at what happened. For seven years, I have been the most hounded and investigated man in tha United States. No man in the Nation has done more than I to prevent anything that ever smacked of the purchase and sale of public offices. I requirgd of applicants for offises in the State ofxMississippi af- fidavits declaring that the applicant had given or promised to give no consideration of any kind for the office. This was at the inception of my administration and prior to the enactment of the statute requiring the filing of affidavits to that effect with the Comptroller General. I appeared before the House Judiciary Committee as the records of that Committee will show, and urged the enactment of a law re- quiring all appointees to make an affidavit stating that they had not given or promised to give any consideration for their appoint- ment. I repeat that I have done no wrong. I have been merely ac- cused as the result of an exparte hearing. No one in public life is safe from accusations by his political enemies, and all fair-minded Americans will throw around me the presumption of innocence until I have been proven guilty. I have no fear of the outcome of a trial in Mississippi. A grand jury indicted Perry W. Howard and associates, and post- poned trial until Nov. 5, 1928, nearly four months from date of indict- ment and during the entire time of the campaign for the Presidency, in which campaign Howard and his associates are virtually interested. Such delays are positively prohibited by the Constitution of the United States, Article VI: In all criminal prosecutions, tha accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and District wherein the crime shall have been committed, which District shall have been previously ascertained by law and t¢ be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be con- fronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process ‘THAT PLEA OF INNOCENCE. | “The more you mow us down, the more thickly we grow; the blood of Chr%stians is qresh seed.”—Tertullian | It has boen a common saying among ‘white southerners that whenever northerners attempt to deal with the Negro question in the Southland, ‘they almost invariably make a mess [of it. This seems to have been ver!- ficd in the case of Hon. George L. Sheldon, former Governor of No jbraska, who seems to have tired. of residing within the State, which had ‘rewarded him with high office. He ‘preferred to occupy tho southern designation of “carpet-bagger” and he moved into Perry W. Howard’s Stare of Mississippi to make trouble for him and the rest of tho able ool- cored men of that far Southern State. As a rule, with the exception of the “poor whites", thousands of southerners, who are against tho Negroes are against the other fel- low's Negroes and he {g “gloriously” in favor of his own Negroes, those, who possess family ties coming down tho line from slavery. many of whom row trace their lineage to the black mammies of other days and to the “pig house” Negroes, who wero butlers, hostlers valots and the like. This class of southerners have a bitter antipathy t Negroes from the North. | They dislike that nasal twang and they despise everything pertaining to this class of the “brothers in black” who aspire to civil rights and social privileges. The Hon. George L. Sheldon evidently aid not know thir when he went up against thay Negro Mississippian, who hailed from the State of Hon. John Sharp Wit- liams and whose appolritment “as Special Assistant Attorney General ‘ot the United States was apprec'ated ‘by Perry W. Howard's white col- Icagues. who often proudly men- tioned’ him as a living oxample of what the much abused Sta‘e hae dono for this class and type of Negroes, who knew how to appreciate Southern rules and <ustoms and to accofd credit to the Iiberal-minded ‘whit elements in this seotion of th country, who had made such an achievement possible. As a resulg when the “carpet: bagger” Hon. George L. Sheldon wont up against Perry W. Howard ard his southern white Republican ‘trends in the Courts of Mizsissipp!, Howard and his friends won out. ‘This was later confirmed by the Re publican National Committee and later still by the Committee on Cre- denials and finally by the Republi- can Natfonal Convention itself. This would logically have ended the con- troversy. But Sheldon was not sat- infled. He had whispered into the ear of the distinguished Californian, Hon. Herbert Hoover and he tu turn left the matter to one of hie mani- gers, it being understood that Shel~ don was “a friend of the family.” Perry W. Howard was entered up- on the roster of the Republican Ne- tional Committee. This gave him control of the campaign im Missis- sipp!. People trom this State, both white and black, know how to fight and Howard was no exception. Hx- Governor Sheldon, not being able to win by fair means proceeded to ap- peal to the court of unfair means. ‘Tke blow was aimed, s0 to speak, “pelow the belt”. A hasty decision ‘Was not wanted, despite the positive command of Article VI of the Con- stitution of the United States. Another “carpet bagger” for a few days was imported In the person of Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt Assistant Attorney General of the United States. She assisted in hav- ing Perry W. Howard indicted for conspiracy; set the hearing for November 5, 1928 when she and Sheldon knew that the election was Tuesday. November 6, 1928. In the meantime an order was secured from Attorney General Sargent suspending Perry W. Howard from office and p-y, pending this hearing, presum- ing him guilty until he proves him- self innocent, thus upsetting a fun- gamental principle of criminal law, which is as old as English jurispru- dence itself. eet Tn the meantime, the Chairmzn of 4s in the embarrassing pred'cament the Republican National Committee of trying not to deal with the off'cial Republican National Committeeman from Mississippi, and who occupies that postion until he hes been found guilty of crime before a vacancy ean exist in the office held by him. In the meentime, Perry W. Howard announces to the world to use his exact language: \ “I have done no wrong. I have been merely accused as a result of an exparte hearing. No one in public life is safe from accusations by his polttieal enemles and all tatrminded Americans will throw around me the preumption of innocence until I have been proven guilty. I have no fear of the outcome of a trial in Mississ'ppt.” We agreo with him. Tt is an issue between a black native Mississtppian and a “carpet -bagger” Nebraskan. In such a contest, Justice will bs enthroned and a proper judgment be reached in short order. We would suggest that Hon. George L. Shel don of Nebrask go on back home and permit the black and white Missiasippiang to get along in peace pryy and harmony together. ‘This indictment business might well be considered in the nature of & joke were it not for the serious ecnsequences to follow Perry W. Howard's persecution. Powerful Ne-| gro organizations ‘throughout the country should resent it. More than’ ten million Negroes have this lone. kones, able Negro leader to re present them on the Republican Na tionat Committee and they will see t© it at the ballot boxes in the States of the North and West that the blow aimed at them from this source ghall be resented at the polls. | aT Whether it will result in landing the “vote getting” Hon. Alfred B. Smith of New York or the able sta tistical Hon. Herbert Hoover of California in the White House of the Nation will be an after consid eration. Mrs, Mabel Walker Wille brandt may be fine on a whiskey, ‘scent in the tracing of bootleggers, but she has shown absolutely no bloodhound ability in the trailing of Southern Negroes. She is wholly, unable to tell the dfference between an innocent Negro and a guilty one. 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The little boy that Taylor's mother raised said, 'Mr. Tommy had broken all of the vases in the house. Taylor went into Roger Jordan's house. He said he was going to kill me with a black claw. He came out, he went to his mother's house and said, 'Give me my damn keys.' She ran to my house with his little baby in her arms. She said that Tommy was going to be the death of her. There she sat until it was all over. Taylor went into his house and got his pistol. He went down to Roger's house and said, 'Is you all ready?' Roger wife told him no to her hand. Roger was beating Roger Jordan over the head all down the alley. Jordan's Wife Talks Too Hester Jordan, 1326 N. 26th Street, said that at the time she lived at 1315 N. 26th Stret, she had since moved. "My husband, Roger came down the street. Roger said to Taylor, 'What have I done to you?' Taylor said, 'God damn it, wait till I come back.' Roger went on in the yard and leaned over the fence. 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