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THE RICHMOND PLANET Virginia State Library VIRGINIA AUG 18 1928 STATE LIBRARY FINE TRIBUTES TO JUDGE JULIEN GUNN Virginia and Massachusetts vie in Praising Him SYLVESTER MEDLEY CASE VOLUME XLV, NO. 41 FINE Virgin SYL The Hono A YOUTHFUL SLAYER BEFORE A COURAGEOUS JUDGE (Newport News Star) "Sylvester Medley, the seventeen-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 31, 1928, and with a jury trial waived, sentenced by Judge Julien Gunn to imprisonment for life in the Virginia penitentiary upon his plea of guilty. In the above few words, the Richmond Planet tells the story of the conclusion of a tragedy that stirred the southside of Richmond, Virginia, a few weeks ago to a high pitch of excitement and provoked much wild talk of summary punishment by the mob. Most of our readers, we presume, will recall the homicide. It was an unprovoked murder, as far as the evidence disclosed, wholly without justification or excuse. Medley had been paroled to Henry F. Grimmell and Mrs. Haskins. He had been in trouble before. On June 30th, the colored lad shot Mrs. Haskins and later Mr. Henry F. Grimmell, and finally killed Samuel E. Grimmell. His sanity being questioned, a commission was appointed to examine into the mental state of the lad and found him "not insane." Everything was in order for a quick sentence of death. Three white people had been injured, one fatally, by a Negro youth, the community had been thoroughly aroused and the Negro was "not insane," and pleaded guilty! But Judge Gunn did not inflict the death penalty! He said that he found no motive for the murder. He saw the prisoner's youth. He heard the experts say that the boy was "not insane," but they did not say that he was not of low mentality. Judge Gunn was face to face with a knotty problem. The death of the youth would have been approved by thousands, but Judge Gunn did not let that fact move him. His was an awful responsibility, but he did not falter. Judges there are whose ears would have been to the ground to catch the threatening clamor of the crowd. He did not shirk responsibility and pass the matter on to the Governor. The loud demand of justice did not drown the tender appeal of mercy. He heeded the latter's call and arose to the statue of a great judge. If race prejudice lifted his colossal body before him, he ordered him back to that realm where the blind lead the blind until the leader and the led tumble into the bog of eternal darkness. Such judges as the Honorable Julien Gunn—and we are acquainted with many such—are the hope of the weak of whatever race or condition; but should their kind give place to those who hold their high office by catering to a diseased public clamor in time of exciting crimes, whether felonies or misdemeanors, then may God save the Commonwealth! TO THE EDITOR OF THE PLANET BROOKLINE, MASS., Aug. 9. Thirty years ago when the writer TRIBU ia and .VES rable J. Th first knew the Planet and became one of its subscribers, the paper then, as well as its able editor, was facing unmitigated prejudice prevailing in Virginia and other Southern States in the great moral endeavor to save the lives of Mary Abernathy, Poky Barnes and Solomon Marable. Mob law was then the sentiment and the theme of the hour; lynching and burning were paramount to civil order and judicious rule. But now through the influence of the Planet's editor things are quite different in the case of Sylvester Medley. This poor unfortunate boy who had committed a great crime, instead of being mobbed, lynched or burned at the stake was tried in the court of order, amid regret, sympathy and tears. The editor of the Planet has always maintained that the day would come when lynch law would be relegated to the rear and law and order would be the civil rule of the day. Sylvester Medley, poor, black and unfortunate in the world's goods, yet the treatment accorded him by the distinguished lawyers of Richmond and the Hon. Julien Gunn, merits the highest praise of the colored people of cultured Richmond and of the dignified State of Virginia. For in the spirit of former times the unfortunate boy would have been lynched or burned at the stake, but now instead of mob violence, he is permitted by the more human feeling and the more charitable sentiment of the white ruling class to spend the remainder of his natural life in the State penitentiary institution. Nor will the world soon forget the deep sorrow and sympathetic tears of the unfortunate boy's mother, who humbly pleaded for him before the court of law, where she received tender compassion and where right and civil justice pre- ROBERT W. CARTER. DOUBLE CROSSED A very clever combination of tense drama, hilarious fun and intrigue played with a dash and fervor guaranteed to make your head spin with mystery and laughter until the last revealing climax. A notorious band of society crooks meet their match when they run foul of another band of society crooks each thinking the other honest! JOHN LEWIS, NEGRO, TRIUMPHS AT GHENT GHENT, BELGIUM, Aug. 11.—John Lewis, New York Negro athlete who was taken to the Olympic games as a member of the American 1,600-meter relay team, but did not see action, won the 400-meter event today in an international track meet here. Clyde Blanchard, American hurdler, who failed to make the team, but got to Europe as a stowaway on the Olympic ship, was second, and Fery, of France, third. The time was 50 seconds. Dr. and Mrs. Albert A. Tennant left last Sunday morning to attend the annual session of the National Medical Association at Baltimore, Md. this week. They will also attend the Elks Convention at Chicago before returning home. RICHMOND ,VIRGIN1A, SATURDAY AUGUST 18 1928 HEAVY DEMAND The demand for Planets last week was so great that we were unable to supply our customers. For this reason, we are reproducing the evidence and the editorial in connection with the killing of James Sharp by Officer Walter B. Burroughs. White people have been outspoken too, in connection with this unfortunate occurrence. Mrs. J. Mercer G. Ramsey and daughters are spending the vacation at Mountain View Hotel at Crozet, Va. The Planet is on sale at many newsstands. Ask your paper carrier for it. He will deliver it to you at 5 cents per copy. Last Tuesday night much excitement was caused at the corner of Fourth and Clay Streets. A white man approached a colored woman with an indecent proposal. A colored man passed at the time and he proceeded to try his fistic skill on this white citizen, beating him to what appeared to be his own self satisfaction. Mr. C. P. Hayes has left the city for an indefinite visit to northern Summer resorts. His Madame is conducting the business during his absence. Mrs. Emma C. Mosby has returned to the city after a pleasant vacation spent at Mountain View Hotel, Crozet, Va. Rev. F. W. Quarles has not been able to visit his nephew owing to the overflow in the South Anna River. He hopes to start on his trip about the 20th of August. THE PLEASURE MAKERS have postponed the Outing to Claremont from August 15 to August 21, on account of high water. Mrs. Aurelia Foster, Mrs. Pocchontas Foster, of Orange, N. J.; Miss Kathleen Foss, of Corona, L. I. are in the city visiting Rev. and Mrs. Junius L. Taylor. 20 W. Leigh Street. The Shepherd's Twilight to Bay Shore, Aug. 25. The Shepherd's Twilight to Bay Shore, Aug. 25. From what I can hear and see the Shepherd's Twilight is going over strong on the 25th of August. This is going to be the last big excursion to the Beach this season and hundreds of people are going to seize this opportunity to refresh themselves by going on this last big popular excursion of the season. No one will have to lose any time, and we will spend the week end at Bay Shore. We are receiving numerous calls every day for tickets from our army of ticket sellers. We are going to carry the biggest and most popular Twilight ever run out of Richmond. 6Continued on page 4. ICE CREAM AND WATERMELON SOCIAL A refreshing evening's entertainment at the Sixth St. Baptist Church 6th and Clay Sts. Monday August 20, 1928, from 6:00 to 12:00 o'clock. All are invited to come out and partake of the delicacies. Committee Mrs. M. L. Arrington and H. H. Quarles. Rev. Joseph Arrington, pastor; H. H. Quarles. clerk. Admission 5 cents. IN MEMORIAM Ellerson, Va., August 15, 1928 In sad but loving memory of my son, McClellan Dabney who entered into eternal rest eight years ago, August 15, 1920 in Walter Reed Hospital, Washington. D. C.: Just as the sun was setting That sad August day, Without a moment's warning My dear son was called away. Angels came and gently bore him to that far land away. that far land away. Where I hope some day to join him, When some day, too, I will under stand. Sleep on, dear son, sleep on and take thy rest; We loved love thee, but Jesus loved thee best. His devoted Mother. VIRGINIA E. DABNEY.. SHARON BAPTIST CHURCH Rev. R. H. Johnson had a full house Sunday, July 28th when he delivered an able sermon on "Lead Us Not Into Temptation." The choir under the leadership of Dr. J. L. Peters rendered selections. The hot weather had not affected the size of the congregation. DR. BROWN AT SIXTH MOUNT ZION BAPTIST CHURCH. Rev. A. W. Brown discussed the "Great Indictment" Sunday morning August 5th at the Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church. The text was from Matthew 23rd chapter. He declared it constituted a condemnation of leaders and of the hypocrisy of the Church. His remarks were well received. All were jubilant over the article on the former pastor, Rev. John Jasper as published in the Sunday edition of the Richmond, Va. Times Dispatch. On to Bayshore Sept, 3rd, 1928 The Pleasure Makers have chartered an engine and fifteen coaches for an excursion from Richmond to Bayshore, Monday, September 3rd. Labor Day We will leave Main Street Station at 7:30 A. M., returning leaving Buckroe 7:30 P. M. Adults, $1.50; children, $1.00. All colored people going to Buckroe or that day will go on our train. This is the first time in many years that the railroad authorities have chartered a train to colored group to take their people. When you go to the station buy your tickets from the committee and not at the ticket window. THE PLEASURE MAKERS. JAMES M. FRAYSER, Chairman, J. H. BLACKWELL, Manager. THE DEATH OF MRS. QUARLES Rev. and Mrs. F. W. Quarles left on the 10:30 A. M. car August 12, 1928, for Ashland, Va., to attend the funeral of his brother's wife, Mrs. Leah Quarles, who died Thursday morning, August 9, 1928. Rev. T. M. Allen conducted the services at Shiloh Baptist Church, Ashland, Va. She leaves to mourn their loss husband, three sons, two daughters and a host of friends. NORTH CAROLINA PYTHIANS FACE RECEIVERSHIP WINSTON-SALEM, N. C., Aug. 1. —Unless the Negro Grand Lodge of Knights of Pythias of North Carolina raises the sum of $20,000 by September 1st, it will be declared in receivership. And if this $20,000 is raised, an additional $20,000 must be obtained by November 1st, or the affairs of the lodge will be closed out. The total indebtedness total approximates. This is the situation confronting Grand Chancellor W. S. Scales, of this city, and other members of the order. The affairs of the grand lodge have gotten into such shape that the North Carolina Insurance Commissioner, Dan Boney, has taken steps to guarantee the future of the secret order he has put it up to the officers and other members. The treasury of the lodge has been displaced by a deficit, it is stated. Death claims are far behind and other indebtedness is staring the members in the face. WELL KNOWN SCREEN STAR EXPERIENCES GREAT MENTAL REACTION IN DRAMATIC SCENE Harrison Ford Will Never Forget Death House Scene—Becomes an Advocate for the Abolition of Capital Punishment. Harrison Ford underwent an experience of a murderer condemned to die on the electric chair and during the filming of the many scenes in the Tiffany-Stahl production "A Woman Against the World" the handsome young screen star so thoroughly imbued with the spirit of his role that he later confessed his mental agonies were just as acute as if he were really an innocent man waiting for his life to be snuffed out by the turning of a switch. Under the direction of George Archainbaud an exact replica of the death chamber of Sing Sing prison was erected and not a detail lacking to give the scene the desired atmosphere. For many days preceding the shooting of this scene Ford had been visualizing the horrors of an electrocution and when his scene was ready he afterwards said that he was so overcome by the horror of the situation that he actually felt as if he were spending the last minutes of his life on earth. The various members of the company who were on the set all remarked the strain Ford seemed to be under and the Director sensing that his leading man was laboring under a severe nervous tension wasted very little time in transferring the scene to the film as quickly as possible. For more than two days after this experience Ford still felt the effects of the horrible situation and resolved that hereafter he will be an ardent advocate for the abolishment of capital punishment. "A Woman Against The World" will be the feature picture attraction coming to the Mosque theatre commencing August 20th for a three day's run. In the cast are such well known screen players as Georgia Hale, Le Moran, Gertrude Olmstead, William Tooker, Harvey Clark, Walter Hiers, Sally Rand, Ida Daring, Rosemary Theby, Charles Clary, Jim Farley and Wade Boteler. The story is an original from the pen of Albert Shelby LeVino and dramatized for the screen by Gertrude Orr. Mrs. W. T. Gray, her three daughters, Miss Hattle, Miss Irene and Miss Elizabeth Gray are visiting their brother and uncle, Hon. W. P. Dabney of Cincinnati, Ohio and will spend the remainder of the Summer in that section. STORM DOES DAMAGE The torrential storm recently affected all sections in this neighborhood. The James River rose, but the expensive Shockoe Creek sewer served its purpose, being supplemented by powerful pumps, which kept the heavy stream of water within prescribed limits. Traffic between this city and Washington was practically suspended both by rail and road-way. The great New York Baptist divine, Rev. Dr. George H. Sims, found it difficult to fill an engagement at the Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church, Rev. A. W. Brown, pastor. He is spending his vacation in Cumberland County, Va., and arrived at the church after Rev. Brown he deserted as a substitute for him. The deck was cleared, so to speak, and he delivered an eloquent discourse. Rev. Sims was present at communion services in the afternoon and immediately upon their conclusion returned to his summer retreat. MEETING WELL ATTENDED A largely attended meeting took place last Monday night at Elix Home, 400 E. Clay Street, to consider the case of James Sharp, who was brutally slain by Officer Walter B. Burroughs. Arrangements were completed to bring the matter to the attention of the Commonwealth's Attorney and to the Police Department officials. Ringing comment resulted when the facts were presented and all present pledged support of the effort. C. B. Gilpin, of the Richmond Beneficial Insurance Co., is treasurer, and all amounts may be sent to him. NEGRO RANKS SECOND IN POLICE DOCTOR TEST Dr. Louis I. Wright Expected To Be First of His Race To Get Appointment Here. (New York Times) Dr. Louis Wright, a Negro physician of 131 West 139th Street, probably will be appointed soon as a police department medical officer, be the first of his medical to receive such an appointment, it was indicated yesterday. When grades of physicians who recently took examination for the department were made public yesterday, Dr. Wright's name stood second on the list of twenty-six who passed. Those who took the examination numbered 150. There are two vacancies in the department and when Police Commissioner Warren was asked about the prospective appointments he indicated that Dr. Wright would receive one. "Race, color or politics have nothing to do with it," the Commissioner said. Dr. Wright is 37 years old, is married and has two children. He was born to L. Grange Ga. He was graduated from Clark College in 1911 and from Harvard in 1915. He was a captain in the Medical Corps during the war and is now attached to the Department of Health at Harlem Hospital. His salary as a police physician would be $4,500 a year. RELATIVES OF JAMES TAYLOR James Taylor, age 38 years, whose address was given as 1231 Fourth Street, Richmond, Va., died in the Homestead Hospital, June 21, 1928. His relatives will learn something of his life by communicating with the Homestead School Works, Employees Insurance and Safety Association, Munhall, Pa. PRICE, FIVE CENTS. GUNN ing Him ASE eak Plainly. MRS. HALL, PASSES AWAY. The funeral of Mrs. Rachael Edwards Hall, beloved wife of Mr. John E. Hall who departed this life Wednesday morning, August 8 1988, took place from the First Baptist Church last Sunday at 12:30 o'clock. A large gathering of sympathetic friends assembled to pay the last tribute of respect to one whom they had known and respected for a long number of years. Rev. W. L. Ransome, the pastor spoke in glowing terms of the deceased and paid a lasting tribute to her Christian-like devotion to her Church, to her family and to the many sorrowing friends who had filled the edifice. Many resolutions of condolence and papers were read coming from the various organizations with which she was connected. Mrs. Annie Lewis Jones sang with touching sweetness. "No Burdons Yonder." In the funeral cortege from New York City were Mrs. Zelma Hall Proctor, Mr. Henry Hall and Capt. and Mrs. William T. Edwards; and Mrs. Etta Hall Carter of Hartford, Conn. and Mr. John E. Hall Jr. of Washington, D. C. The remains were laid to rest in a beautiful, costly Canopy Top Oak Couch of massive state design. The first ever used in the State of Virginia. The floral tributes were many and costly. The interment was made in the family platin in Mt. Olivet Cemetery, the colored section of Maury's. "Rest in Peace!" The popular undertaker Mr. C. S. Cunningham had charge of the remains. Mr. John E. Hall, Sr., and family extend their many thanks for the sympathy expressed, kindness shown and the beautiful floral contributions during the illness and subsequent death of his wife and their mother, Mrs. Rachael E. Hall. —Mr. Wm. Crosby left the city last Thursday for New York city after spending two weeks vacation here. IN MEMORIAM: In devoted memory of my beloved daughter, Dorothy D. Neal, who passed away 7 years ago, August 21, 1921. I did not know that death was so near, When I left the one I loved so dear; But God was ready and He said come, And He took her to live in His heavenly home. No one knows my loneliness, Nor the tears that I have shed; No one knows the heart aches I have borne since she's been dead. But this life is short and fleeting, And I am waiting for the day, When I'll join my dear Dorothy, In the country far away. Dearly loved and sadly missed by her devoted mother, JANNIE NEAL. IN MEMORIAM In sad but loving remembrance of our daughter, Alice V. Edwards Moore, who departed this life August 14, 1920, eight years ago. Just eight years ago you left us, How we miss you daughter, dear; We remember all your kindness As we drop a silent tear. Rev. Richard Edwards, Mrs. Alice N. Edwards, Father and Mother. nk Crane Says Copyright © WHAT IS WORTH WHILE? The difference probably between the scatter-brain is that the former and less alone the unimportant, which about them all. A man has reached a great point lot of things make no difference to his He has a certain end in view and bear on that end. Other matters make The line that divides the success usually the fact that the successful he has in view, while the unsuccess thither like an ant. He has activity. Every once in a while you hear on the big idea? The big idea seems to stand for for which anything is done or said. The big idea is like the perfect de and the trestle boar of the architect and puts every piece of material in I have read some novels that seem of my time, for there was no domine were written. Religious belief in a way simply me about his life, and all of his words plan. Music is only merely a pleasant unity and form and individuality. The Idea is bigger than the man the only when he allows himself to be ab Many people suffer because their have no cohesive plan, and everything never amount to anything, because the Search yourself carefully to find that it is such as can merit your giving Then you will come to success on would have attained it otherwise. we probably between the man of good is that the former emphasizes the the unimportant, while the latter is eq- ached a great point in his career whi- take no difference to him. main end in view and only appreciates . Other matters make no difference divides the successful man from the that the successful man never loses to while the unsuccessful man runs al- ant. He has activity, but it is largely a while you hear on the street the expr seems to stand for the main and infing- ished is done or said. is like the perfect design of the buildi- giard of the architect. He gives to every piece of material in its place. some novels that seemed to be a mere there was no dominant thought abo- ref in a way simply means that a man h and all of his words and deeds must o merely a pleasant succession of sounds and individuality. There must be a big bigger than the man that has it. A man owns himself to be absorbed in the ide suffer because their energies are fritter- plan, and everything they do is hit anything, because there is no bigf ide self carefully to find your dominating a can merit your giving up all your life come to success on board a big idea w ned it otherwise. The difference probably between the man of good judgment and the scatter-brain is that the former emphasizes the important things and lots alone the unimportant, while the latter is equally in earnest about them all. A man has reached a great point in his career when he can see a lot of things make no difference to him. He has a certain end in view and only appreciates the things that bear on that end. Other matters make no difference. The line that divides the successful man from the unsuccessful is usually the fact that the successful man never loses sight of the goal he has in view, while the unsuccessful man runs about hither and thither like an ant. He has activity, but it is largely waste motion. Every once in a while you hear on the street the expression, 'What's the big idea?' The big idea seems to stand for the main and informing purpose for which anything is done or said. The big idea is like the perfect design of the building in the mind and the trestle boiard of the architect. He gives to every man his work and puts every piece of material in its place. I have read some novels that seemed to be a mere frittering away of my time, for there was no dominant thought about which they were written. Religious belief in a way simply means that a man has some big idea about his life, and all of his words and deeds must conform to this plan. Music is only merely a pleasant succession of sounds. It must have unity and form and individuality. There must be a big idea behind it. The idea is bigger than the man that has it. A man becomes great only when he allows himself to be absorbed in the idea. Many people suffer because their energies are fritted away. They have no cohesive plan, and everything they do is hit or miss. They never amount to anything, because there is no big idea behind them. Search yourself carefully to find your dominating desire, and see that it is such as can merit your giving up all your life to it. Then you will come to success on board a big idea when you never would have attained it otherwise. TIME OF SERVICES IN THE CHAPEL AT CITY HOME. Rev. F. W. Quarles, Leader and Manager for Charitable Union, 1010 N. Second St. Services Every Sun day from 2:00 to 4:00 B. M. Comunion 3rd Sunday. Union Meetings 4th Sunday. (S. W. Cor. St. James and Leigh) Rev. Junius L. T. Taylor, Rector; Residence, 20 West Leigh Street; Services: Sunday, 11 to 12 A. M. Night, 8 to 9 o'clock. Wednesday evening services, 8 to 9 o'clock. The public is welcome at all services. PROVIDENCE BAPTIST CHURCH (518 Lady Mile Road) Rev. J. J. Woodson, Pastor, Residence, 1116 St. John Street. Services: Sunday, 11 A. M. and 8 P. M. Sunday School, 9:30 A. M. All are invited. SHILOH BAPTIST CHURCH (Center Street, Fulton) Rev. S. L. Bush, pastor; residence 907 Center Street; Services: Sun Preshaching, 11:40 A. M, and 8:30 P. M. Communion every fourth Sunday, Sunday School, 9:30 A. M.; day at 8:30 P. M. WILLIAMS TEMPLP C. M. B CHUNOH. Rev. G. E. Carter, Pastor 9:30 A. M. , Sunday School; 11:40 A. M. , Preaching; 6:30 P. M. , Ebp worth League; 7:55 P. M. , Presch GRAVEL HILL BAPSTIST CHURCH (Henrico County Va.) Rev. W. L. Tuek Pastor. Resdence, 722 Carlisle Ave., Richmond, Sunday services: Sunday School, 9:30 A. M., Morning Services, 11:30 A. M.; Evening Services, 8 P. M.; Communion. Fourth Sundays 3 P. M. You will find news in The Planet that you will not find in any other journal. This permits you to subscribe to The Planet as well as the journal you are now reading. KNOXIT PROPHYLACTIC LIQUID Unnatural and mucous discharges can be avoided by destroying the germs of infectious diseases. $1.10 At all druggists SORE LEGS HEALED Open Legs, Ulcers, Enlarged Veins, Golter, Eczema healed while you work. 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MOSBY MEMORIAL BAPTIST CHURCH Idlewood Ave. and Randolph St. PRESIDENTIAL POLL My CHOICE for PRESIDENT IS HERBERT HOOVER (Republican) ALFRED E. 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—etc.) Rev. J. A. Brinkley. A. B. B. D. Pastor. Services: Sunday, 11:30 A. M. and 8 P. M. Sunday School 9:30 A. M. All are welcome. Rev J. W. Dudley, D. D., Pastor; Parsonage 1715 Everett Street, Services: Sunday, 11:30 A. M. and 8 P. M. Sunday School, 9:30 A. M. The public is welcome. (Penola, Va.) Rev. M. C. Ruffin, Pastor, Res- dence, 611 St. Peter St. Services at Glen Allen, 2nd and 4th Sundays at 1 P. M. At Penola, services on the 3rd Sunday at 12:30 P. M. Sunday School every Sunday at both places at 11:30 A. M. WHICH ONE WILL GET YOUR VOTE? HERBERT HOOVER ALFRED E. SMITH MT. GILEAD BAPTIST CHURCH. 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JOHN MITCHELL, JR....EDITOR all communications intended for publication should be sent to reach us by Wednesday. Entered at the Post Office at Richmond, Virginia, as second class matter. One Year ..... $ 2.00 six Months ..... 1.20 Three Months ..... .00 Foreign Subscriptions ..... 2.50 Foreign Advertising Representative, W. B. fifth Company, 908 Earborn Street, Chicago; 421 Victoria Building, St. Louis, Mo.; 480 Longshore Building, New York. SATURDAY AUGUST 18, 1928 Hon. J. Thomas Newsome has a unique way of declining an appointment on the Advisory Committee of the Republican Party. The letter sent to him is being used as a boomerang. He can safely conclude to have no further correspondence upon that subject. We are of the opinion that the time is not far distant when by mechanical, electrical processes, the eye-less shall be made to see and the car-less shall be made to hear. What other conclusion are we to draw when even now, Hon. Herbert Hoover was seen and heard while he was speaking by persons, who were thousands of miles away? Hon. Harry Smith, of Ohio, was a candidate for the Republican nomination for Governor of that great State. There is but one of his kind, not only in his own State, but in the United States of America. Regardless of his whims and his peculiarities, he is one of the ablest and most conscientious race leaders our group has ever produced. He has always been consistent in his attitude and we say this as a result of an observation of his course on racial matters during a period of forty years or more. In our comment on the attack by Republican emissaries upon Hon. Perry W. Howard, we meant to convey the impression that Hon. Alfred E. Smith, of New York, was slated for a beating by the Republican managers, but if the gentlemen continued their assaults upon these old line political leaders, they might find out that there is many "a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip." In other words the dissatisfied Negro vote might be the cause of their undoing. This comment is for the benefit of our great and good friend, Editor Fred R. Moore, of the New York Age. The address of Hon. Herbert Hoover accepting the nomination for the office of President of the United States takes high rank and is absolutely devoid of unfortunate political declarations. It will form a most valuable basis of discussion on the part of the Republican campaign orators of the country. The Negro question forms no part of the deliverances and a remote inference with reference to equality of opportunity to all citizens can only be presumed by the most optimistic to refer to the citizens of color. Equality of opportunity for the "brother in black" is a "far cry", so long as the doors of West Point Military Academy remain barred against one race and are open to all others, with no other military establishment elsewhere in this country of equal military equipment, fostered by the United States Government open to him elsewhere. The distinguished Californian is hampered by these surroundings and he is helpless and hopeless in the face of them. The military oligarchy is all powerful in Washington and it has no rival, but that of the Prohibition Department, which is not as yet provided with the huge sums of money periodically available to the War and Navy Departments of this government. Theodore Roosevelt, the super-man could not withstand it and neither can Herbert Hoover, of California, nor Alfred E. Smith, of New York. The brilliant statesman evidently knows this and this is why he did not encumber his admirable address with words on the Negro question, which could have no significance. THE COLORED DIVISION Chairman Hubert Work, of the Republican National Committee has created a Colored Voters' Division to direct the Hoover-Curtis campaign among the colored citizens of the country. John R. Hawkins, the brilliant Methodist worker has been named as chairman and Albon L. Holsey, Secretary of Tuskegee Institute has been chosen as secretary. This seems to account for the presence in Washington recently of that profound scholar, Dr. R. R. Moton. The gentlemen named rank high in the oratorical and educational lines, although their experience in politics is limited. Mr. Hawkins is one of the ablest leaders in the United States among our people. In the great religious denomination with which he is affiliated his influence is second to none, in our opinion. The Executive Committee, named, from a political standpoint is the best, when we consider Walter Foster, of Boston; Adelbert H. Roberts, of Chicago; John E. Nail, of New York; Robert R. Church, of Memphis; Emmett J. Scott, of Washington. But these people should be in Washington to advise and to cooperate. Certainly, it will be necessary to have frequent conferences to avoid unforeseen mistakes. This Perry W. Howard blunder should be harmonized and corrected as a first step to secure political co-operation throughout the country. Walter L. Cohen and that tower of strength, either North or South, Benjamin J. Davis, of Georgia, should be called into conference. These men have committed no crime and they have borne the political burden of the day, so to speak. The attempt to howl them down and to discredit them should be discredited. Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, who has evidently been deceived in throwing the weight of her great influence against them and their associates should be induced to cease her warfare, even though she may think and believe the success of the Republican Party and Hon. Herbert Hoover is already assured. We are giving this advice upon our own motion. We are reflecting sentiment in this immediate "neck of the woods" and we have good reason to believe that this same sentiment has and is permeating Negro centres in other parts of the country. "Nuff Sed." SHEPHERD NOTES Come one! Come all and enjoy yourselves on this great Shepherd's Outing. Train will leave 16th and Broad promptly at 3 P. M.; leaving Bay Shore at 11:30 P. M. This will give you seven hours at the Beach, just enough time not to the you. Won't it be grand? You need to be desired by every pleasure location in the city and surrounding territory. Grand Shepherd Ora Brown Stokes and Grane Record Secretary Mary E. Cousins accomplished some very nice work for the Order while in attendance upon National Association of Colored Women's Clubs in Wasrington last week. The brought back to Richmond an adult and a juvenile fold. This report gives you some idea of the wonderful influence exerted by Mrs. Stokes in the big cities and national organizations. We wish these two ladies could find a big national convention to attend every week. The Shepherd's profit thereby. The second week in September, the time of our Grand Session is looking us in the face. A few more days and Shepherd's from all sections of the Brotherhood will converge at Richmond in the 18th Annual Grand Session of our beloved Order. The sessions will be held at the Leigh Street M. E. Church, corner Leigh and Fifth. This Church is located in the same block that our Headquarters is situated. This arrangement should add greatly to our Convention since it will be possible for every delegate to visit Headquarters and make minute inspection thereof. To look upon Headquarters will be sufficient cause for increased pride and interest in the Order. Contributions for Headquarters continue to come. The following Folds reported since our last writing Price of Croaker . . . $5.00 Clark's Invite bible . . . 5.00 Fannie B. Taulton . . . 5.00 Mrs. Mary E. Freeman reports that she is planning a great surprise to the Grand Fold by reporting a a nice sum of money collected from her friends for headquarters. Watch her. I am sure you have heard about her before. A fine Juvenile was reported by Deputy Mary E. Freeman a few days ago for West Philadelphia. Daughter Mamie Yates is the Matron. Many congratulations to Deputy Freeman for this very welcome addition to our Order. G. O. P. NATIONAL COMMITTEE SEEKS TO ROUND UP VIR- GINIA NEGO VOTE NEWPORT NEWS, VA., Aug. 11. —J. Thomas Newsome, Negro lawyer and editor of the Star, Negro newspaper, of this city, has been invited to become a member of the advisory committee of the Colored Voters' Division of the National Republican Committee, which is seeking to line up for Hoover the Negro vote of the United States. The colored people of this city have for sometime, been inclined toward the Democratic party, and Newsome has decided to wait a while before deciding definitely whether he will accept the invitation. The Star recently carried an editorial in which Al Smith, the Democratic nominee for President, was praised for his straight-forward stand on prohibition. In discussing the information from the Republican National Committee, Newsome today said: "I think I shall wait before giving THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND' VIRGINIA Cures Chills and Fever Intermittent, Remittent and Bilious Fever due to Malaria. It Kills the Germs. my answer to the chairman of the Colored Division of Negro Voters, to see how many of the leading Democrats in the South are actually deserting the Democratic party. If Governor Smith is to be defeated solely on account of his religion, thereby establishing a precedent for religious intolerance in this country, I think it well that all of the minority groups should be exceedingly cautious before taking any action that might tend to bring about such a result. It may be that a few days will reveal the actual state of things, and then it will be time enough for me to act in the premises." The letter from the National Republican Committee follows: August 8, 1928. J. Thomas Newsome, Attorney at Law, Newport News, Va. My Dear Newsome,—In connection with the organization of the Colored Voters' Division of the Republican National Committee, we are inviting you to serve as a member of the advisory committee, as the campaign progresses, you will be subject to call for some specific work, and we very much hope you may see your way clear to accept the appointment and its attendant responsibilities. Your very truly, The Colored Voters' Division. John R. Hawkins, chairman, Albin L. Hoisey, Secretary. TOM BIRD S1 YEARS OLD Tom Bird, blind news-carrier, celebrated his 81st birthday August 5, 1928. Though physically weak, and not able to travel the streets as in former years, he may be seen in the doorway in the rear of the Central National Bank Building on Third Street, selling his papers to the passers-by. With a smile he is receiving the congratulations and remembrances of his many friends, white and colored. Drop t piece of silver in his hat. SHERIFF'S SALE. I snail sell at Public Auction on August 21, 1928, at 1 o'clock A. M. in the SHERIFF'S OFFICE, Room 212, City Hall, the following notes: 23 Notes of the HIGHWAY REALTY and ENTERTAINMENT CORPORATION for $30.00 each dated January 26, 1927 with interest from date: 24 Notes of SHADDENES CRITTENDEN and MARTHA CRITTENDEN, dated July 16, 1924, for $10.00 each with interest from date: 21 Notes of OSCAR BROWN. for $8.00 each, dated June 25, 1924, with interest from date. 10 Notes of MARCELLUS COLEMAN, for $10.00 each dated May 28, 1924, with interest from date. The above notes are being sold under order of the Circuit Court of the City of Richmond: In Re: RICHMOND STOVE CO.Vs. RICHMOND SUBURBAN CORPORATION. TERMS: CASH. J. HERBERT MERCER. Sheriff of the City of Richmond, Va. FULTON NOTES Rev. C. A. Cobbs delivered a forceful and inspiring message to all present last Sunday. The Rev. C. B. Jefferson preached at the Union Baptist Church, South Richmond, last Sunday evening. Rev. G. W. Coleman preached the funeral services of Sister Bettie Richardson last Sunday at 1 P. M. at the Second Liberty Baptist Church, New Kent County. The revival services held at the Zion Grove Baptist Church, Clover, Va. last week were quite a success. These services were conducted by the Rev. W. L. Tuck, of Richmond, Va. The crowds were so large every evening that the church could not hold them. The meeting netted fourteen conversion churches. Barclay, Rev. Tuck, whil Claude, resided at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Watkins, who treated him very kindly along with many other friends. A great platform meeting at the Shiloh Baptist Church tomorrow at 3:30 P. M., benefit the Virginia Baptist State Sunday School Convention. The officers and teachers of our various Sunday Schools will compose the talents on the program. Rev. S. L. Bush, B. D., pastor. Rev. C. B. Jefferson, assistant. July 23, 1928. Mrs. Olivett Robinson, 2222 Fitzwater Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 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Send us your subscription. A 'phone call will bring a news boy to your door every week. Officer Burroughs' Blunder---Kills James Sharp---Wrong Man Sent to Judgment PERRY W. HOWARD'S PLEA OF INNOCENCE. The only information I have with reference to my indictment is what I have read in the daily papers. I am a 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 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 that 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 powerful influence, material, political and otherwise, and I am not surprised at what happened. For seven years, I have been the most hounded and investigated man in the United States. No matter in the Nation has done more than I to prevent anything that ever smacked of the purchase and sale of public offices. I required of applicants for offices in the State ofxMississippi affidavits 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 requiring all appointees to make an affidavit stating that they had not given or promised to give any consideration for their appointment. I repeat that I have done no wrong. I have been merely accused 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 postponed trial until Nov. 5, 1928, nearly four months from date of indictment 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, the 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 to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process (Special by John Mitchell, Jr.) James Sharp, colored, the grandfather of eight grandchildren, was shot three times and killed Friday night, August 3, 1928, in his own home, at 809 Gilbert Avenue, by Patrolman Walter B. Burroughs, of the "clean-up squad." The inquest was held by Acting Coroner E. G. Hill in the coroner's office in the City Hall last Tuesday at 10:30 A.M. The officer was charged in the warrant with involuntary manslaughter. After hearing the evidence and a statement of the accused officer, the case was certified to the Hustings Court grand jury, which meets in October. Uncontradicted Facts The uncontradicted facts are as follows: Burroughs and Chadwick saw a group of colored youngsters on the corner of Sixth and Baker Streets. The latter ran with the officers in pursuit. Just why the young man ran and why the officers chased them have not been explained. They were simply loitering on the corner and no evidence has as yet been adduced to show that anyone of them had any liquor or had committed any crime. In fact, at a later hearing Officer Burroughs admitted, under the cross questioning of Attorney Alfred E. Cohen, that he did not know who he was chasing. It was also brought out that the wrong man had been shot. In His Own Back Yard. James Sharp was seated in the back yard of his cellar dwelling place, in company with a female friend of one of the family. Her name was Mrs. Lizzie Freeman, of 511 North First Street. Officer Burroughs was chasing the youngsters. One of them, who has come forward, says that the officer was after him. He ran under the yard and hid, while James Sharp and his female companion had scamped into the house for safety. Burroughs rushed into the house and grappled with James Sharp, who had absolutely nothing to do with the affair and without displaying his badge, he fired three times on James Sharp. Those Deadly Bullets. One bullet glanced his head, another passed through his lung and the last one presumably entered his heart and his life was at an end in this world. Burroughs had no warrant for Sharp's arrest and he could not legally cross the threshold of Sharp's door without such a document. He was a trespasser, and Sharp had the legal right to resist him, even to the point of striking him with the glass jar as alleged, although the charge he did so is upon the unsupported statement of the office himself. These are the facts as brought out, about which there can be no controversy. There is no allegation James Sharp had any whiskey in the house or that he was a bootlegger, or that he had any weapon of any kind in his humble habitation. A Peaceful Citizen. He had been employed for years by the Richmond Tie and Mosaic Company, and his white employer gave him a "clean bill" as a reliable citizen. Despite all of this, without having committed any crime, his home was unceremoniously invaded and he was shot down, while the youth being sought was running away from under a table in the yard, where he had sought temporary refuge. The deductions of the prosecution are as follows: Walter B. Burroughs led under the lower door leading into James Sharp's rooms did not lower his head sufficiently and it came in contact with the door. As evidence of this three strands of his hair were found just where his head struck. Intended To Kill. This tended to daze him. Sharp was getting away from him, and in his haste, he fired on him, probably thinking that some one had struck him. He exceeded the legal requirement by firing a second time and then proceeded to carry his purpose to the fire the third time with the result that the setunt through the heart of his victim. Officef Burroughs' claim is that he was in hand-to-hand struggle with Sharp in Sharp's THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND. VIRGINIA own home, and where he had no legal right to be. He got Sharp's head under his arm, struck him with a black-jack, that Sharp wrested the black-jack out of his hand and that he then fired his revolver to protect himself. No Safety Inside. He also claimed that he struggled with Sharp in the yard and that Sharp pulled him onward into the house, where he killed him. The evidence of the witness is that James Sharp and his female companion went inside of the house for safety, that Burroughs had his flashlight in one hand and his revolver in the other. That he opened fire on orphan and after pressing his hand to his head, he him he was going to kill him and that he proceeded to do it. The following is the testimony of the witnesses before Coroner E. G. Hill, of South Richmond: Elijah Henderson's Statement Elijah Henderson, 814 N. Seventh Street, said: "I was standing on my back pouch facing the back. It was around 10:30 that night. I heard some shooting. When the car rolled up some boys came running down through the alley. Some of them ran down the alley from Gilbert Avenue to Seventh Street. Officers jumped off the car in Gilbert Avenue. The officers ran down to that door and ran on into the house with a search-light in his hand. About two or three minutes I heard the report of a gun. I heard that gun twice. Lucy Freeman Talks. Too. This man, James Sharp, was sitting in a chair outside the door just as you go into the house, Naturally, when the boys ran, he got up and went into the house to get out of the way. After the shooting I heard a lot of screaming and hollering. Sharp works. I meet him every morning going to work as I am going away. Mrs. Lucy Freeman said: "I live at 511 N. First Street. I was down at James Sharp's house visiting his daughter. She had gone out for a walk and I was waiting for her to come back. She is sick. Wanted Fresh Air. "I passed around the front and looked in and I went around to the back. James Sharp and his brother, Fleming Sharp, and his daughter, 'Ikey', were sitting at the door. James told me that the sick girl had gone up the alley to give a little fresh air. Fleming told me to take his seat. He was going in and lie down for awhile. I had been there about five minutes when there was great excitement. We got up and ran into the house. I was in front of James Sharp. When we got in, the firing began. I kept on upstairs and made my escape. Officer Gave No Time. "The officer did not give us any time for anything. He threw up for obtaining witnesses in his favor and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense. What will the Ten Million Colored People, with their lone Representative on the Republican National Committee do about it? The great Republican National Convention confirmed his title to his seat and recognized him as entitled to sit with representatives from other States. Upon the demand of that anti-Negro "Carpet-begger" George L. Sheldon, ex-Governor of Nebraska, 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 reverberations may be heard Nov. 6, 1928 from the Atlantic to the Pacific; from Canada to the Gulf. his gun and opened fire. He didn't give us time for nothing. If I had been behind I would have been shot instead of James Sharp. I saw the boys. I don't know who they were. The officer who did the shooting was a big stout german man, who had a gun. I did not. I said a word. I would have told him, had he given us time that he had the wrong man." The Slaim Man's Brother. Fleming Sharp said: "I live at 809 Gilbert Avenue. I was asleep in the basement Friday night, August 3rd, about 10:30 o'clock. The report of the gun awoke me. James Sharp ran into my room. He called Ike (Jesse Turner). The officer turned the flash-light on him and said to me of a bitch, I am to kill you'. James Sharp said, 'Don't shoot me no more.' He fell upon the officer's shoulder, with both hands and hung his head. The officer put his hand upon his own head and then fired. Fell Dead After Shot "Sharp immediately fell dead after the shot. The officer stepped back into the room and hollered and said, 'Call the other policeman.' Then I put on my pants, turned the light up and came out with the lamp in my hand and met my sister (Mattie Gerrien) at the door." Mrs. Mattie Gerrien, who rents the house, 809 Gilbert Avenue, said: "I had been out walking with my sick daughter. As I reached the corner of Gilbert Avenue and Baker Street, I noticed the excitement by one of the boys, who the police were chasing from the corner of Sixth and Baker Streets, rushing On Kitchen Floor. "The officers came up by me, up Gilbert Avenue on Baker Street. I got out of the way. A few steps made and I heard the shooting. The crying and yelling of the children led me so believe that one of them was shot. I reached home and found out that James Sharp had been shot at home and his body was on the kitchen floor. I went around to go in the back way. An officer was there with his flash-light. I thought it was a gun and I exclaimed, 'Don't shoot, I am at home. He said, 'No more will come in.' I went straight out the back door to the outside window." W. A. Perkins' Statement. W. A. Perkins, 751 North Sixth Street, plasterer and contractor, said "I was at home, southeast corner Sixth and Duval Streets. I was standing on my back porch. I saw two officers run around the corner, going about thirty-five or forty miles per hour, turn in Gilbert Avenue. My son and I closed the door and started to the mouth of the alley. We heard the report of the gun. I ran up there. I saw an officer rubbing his head. I was at the window looking in down for obtaining witnesses counsel for his defense What will th with their lone R National Comm The great Republican I nized him as entitled to sit with Upon the demand of that anti- be sacrificed in the Courts and crucified Let the Colored People a tions may be heard Nov. 6, 19 THAT PLEA OF INNOCENCE. "The more you mow us down, the more thickly we grow; the blood of Christians is fresh seed."—Tertullian It has been 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 verified in the case of Hon. George L. Sheldon, former Governor of Nebraska, who seems to have tired of residing within the State, which had rewarded him with high office. He preferred to occupy the southern designation of "carpet-bagger" and he moved into Perry W. Howard's State of Mississippi to make trouble for him and the rest of the able colored men of that far Southern State. As a rule, with the exception of the "poor whites", thousands of southerners, who are against the Negroes are against the other fellow's Negroes and he is "gloriously" in favor of his own Negroes, those who possess family ties coming down the line from slavery, many of whom now trace their lineage to the black mammals of other days and to the "big house" Negroes, who were butlers, hostlers valets and the like. This class of southerners have a bitter antipathy to 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 did not know this when he went up against that Negro Mississippi, who hailed from the State of Hon. John Sharp Williams and whose appointment as Special Assistant Attorney General there. There was crying going on. I ran back, 'phoned for an ambulance and I 'phoned to headquarters. I did not see the shooting. I heard two shots. I saw hair on the ledge above the door. I saw three hairs, they were sandy color. They were sandy color. Strange. Tile works for Richmond Tile and Mosaic Company. I last saw him Thursday. He was a quiet old man." Cause of Shooting. Willie Branch, alias "Buck" Branch, seventeen years of age, 624 North Sixth Street, said: "I work at the Richmond Credit Clothing Company, porter and deliver goods. I was on the corner of Sixth and Baker at the time the officer's car came. They came from Seventh Street up Baker. We all ran off the corner and ran down Duval Street to Gilbert Alloy and went up to where the side alley ran up to Seventh Street. Two fellows were in front of me and I turned to go around another way to go and I fell. There was a colored lady and gentleman sitting out there. Heard Two Shots. "The officers were so close behind me, I slid under the table in the yard. The lady and gentleman ran into the house. An officer ran into the house with a flash-light in one hand and a pistol in the other. Then I heard two shots. I heard screams. I ran to Seventh Street, saw the officers' car coming down Seventh Street. I ran back and hid until the officers' car passed. I put on my coat and went up Seventh Street walking. Hiram Jones, Howard Maynard, Moses Norrell, Lincoln Carr were the names of the boys. Maynard was in front of me. Chasing Boys Only. The officers were chasing us off the corner Maynard kept through. I saw him about an hour afterwards on Seventh Street. I was the last one that left the corner, the slowest runner. Only two went down the way Howard Maynard and I went." M. A. Norrell, 714 North Sixth Street, said: "I was out of town when the shooting occurred. I went out and inspected the premises on Saturday later on in the afternoon." Sergeant P. B. Sterling said: "The morning after it happened I talked with Officer Burroughs. He said he had a statement. He said that he had shot this nigger in self-defense. He had been struck by a jar. Not Seriously Injured. "He said he had a knot on his head. In reply to a question from Attorney Alfred E. Cohen, he said he did not see the knot, not having noticed his head particularly. Coroner E. G. Hill said that James Sharp had been shot through heart and spleen, the bullet lodging in his liver. One bullet went through his liver and entered the intestines. Another bullet appeared in his favor and to ha The Ten Million O Representative on ittee do about it? National Convention confirmed n representatives from other Sta Negro "Carpet-begger" George L. Sheldon in the Republican Party ? and their organizations give the a 28 from the Atlantic to the Paci of the United States was appreciated by Perry W. Howard's white colleagues, who often proudly mentioned him as a living example of what the much abused State had done for this class and type of Negroes, who knew how to appreciate Southern rules and customs and to accord credit to the liberal-minded white elements in this section of the country, who had made such an achievement possible. As a result when the "carpet bagger" Hon. George L. Sheldon went up against Perry W. Howard and his southern white Republican friends in the Courts of Mississippi. Howard and his friends won out. This was later confirmed by the Republican National Committee and later still by the Committee on Credentials and finally by the Republican National Convention itself. This would logically have ended the controversy. But Sheldon was not sat infied. He had whispered into the ear of the distinguished Californian Hon. Herbert Hoover and he in turn left the matter to one of his managers, it being understood that Sheldon was "a friend of the family." Perry W. Howard was entered up on the roster of the Republican National Committee. This gave him control of the campaign in Mississippi. People from this State, both white and black, know how to fight and Howard was no exception. Mr. Governor Sheldon, not being able to win by fair means proceeded to appeal to the court of unfairners. The blow was aimed, so to speak "below the belt." A hasty decision was not wanted, despite the positive command of Article VI of the Constitution of the United States. Another "carpet bagger" for a few days was imported in the person of to have struck his head a glancing blow. In Judge Ingram's Court. This testimony completed, all of those present went over to the Police Court, where a hearing was scheduled to take place at 12 o'clock. Photographs of the home and yard of James Sharp were there on display, having been taken by Photographer George W. Brown. The Police Department had provided a diagram of the neighborhood upon the request of Coroner E. G. Hill. Some delay took place. A broken half gallon glass jar was placed on the desk of Judge John L. Ingram. Then the witnesses, who had previously testified before the coroner, proceeded to repeat their testimony before Judge John L. Ingram. Officer Burroughs' Statement Attorney Leith S. Brenner represented Officer Burroughs, while Attorney Alfred E. Cohen represented the prosecution. Officer Burroughs stated that he was chasing the boys and that he rushed in on James Sharp. A struggle took place in the yard. He said that he did not use his flash-light at all. Sharp dragged him into the house with assaulted him with the glass jar. He钻 his head under his (Burroughs) arm and he (Burroughs) struck him with his black-jack. Sharp wreaked the black-jack from him and then he finding himself helpless, shot him. Attorney Cohen's Cross-Examination Under a severe cross-examination by Attorney Alfred E. Cohen, he admitted that he did not know who he was chasing. No crime had been committed so far as he knew by any of the boys. He had no warrant for Sharp and was not in possession of a search warrant. He shot James Sharp in his own home and in his own kitchen, which was used as a bedroom. Sergeant R. P. Starling repeated his statement, and Judge John L. B. burroughs on to the October term of the Hustings Court when the grand jury meets and he bailed him in the sum of $500.00. Suspended From Duty. Chief of Police R. B. Jordan had promptly suspended Officer Burroughs from duty, pending the final outcome of the criminal proceedings. The warrant issued is as follows: W. B. Burroughs, on warrant did unlawfully and feloniously commit involuntary harm and that he murdered one, James Sharp, while in the discharge of his duties as a police officer. AN OFFICER'S BLUNDER Pity is the virtue of the law, And none but tyrants use it cruelly. —Shakespeare. The killing of James Sharp, an humble colored man, in his basement home in this city Friday night, Au- have the assistance of Colored People, in the Republican his title to his seat and recog- tes. ex-Governor of Nebraska, is Howard to answer now, so that its reverber- fic; from Canada to the Gulf. Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt Assistant Attorney General of the United States. She assisted in having 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 pry, pending this hearing, presuming him guilty until he proves himself innocent, thus upsetting a fundamental principle of criminal law, which is as old as English jurisprudence itself. In the meantime, the Chairman of is in the embarrassing predicament the Republican National Committee of trying not to deal with the official Republican National Committeeman from Mississippi, and who occupies that position until he has been found guilty of crime before a vacancy can exist in the office held by him. In the meantime, 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 expire hearing. No one in public life is safe from accusations by his political enemies and all farm-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." We agree with him. It is an issue between a black native Mississippi and a "carpet-bagger" Nebraska. In such a contest, Justice will be enchroned and a proper judgment be reached in short order. We would suggest that Hon. George L. Sheldon of Nebraska go on back home and permit the black and white Mississippi to get along in peace gust 3, 1928, after he had completed his day's labor and was sitting in his own back yard, apparently free from all cares save those attendant upon his responsibility as the father of a sick daughter, the brother of an unwell brother, and the grandfather of eight little grandchildren, who were supplied from the meager earnings made by working for his white employer, is one of the most distressing tragedies that has ever taken place in this city. Viewed from any angle, this murder is without a shadow of justification or excuse. Officer Walter B. Burroughs' own statement is all that is necessary to prove that it is one of the most atrocious crimes ever committed in this State in the name of the law. Sergeant Dan W. Duling has made an enviable record since he has had charge of this body of deaths and his good judgment and faithfulness in the discharge of his puzzling and onerous duties have called for the most favorable commendation by both white and colored people. For our part, we never dreamed that he had in that array of talent a man of the temperament and hard-heartedness of this indiscreet officer. What are the facts? The purity squad has a special duty of looking after the illegal traffic of "boottleggers." In this instance, it proceeded, or at least Officer Burroughs proceeded, to invade the precincts of the Juvenile Department of Virginia and chased a youth, age 17 years, for the arrest of which youth he had no warrant and no allegation is made that he and his associates had violated any law, unless loitering on a street corner at night can be set up as a violation of the law. When they ran, the loitering ceased and the using of a deadly weapon in any event was without the warrant of law. When Officer Burroughs went upon the premises of James Sharp without a search warrant and seized him inside of his own house, he became as much an intruder as any other man would be, who was not an officer of the law. James Sharp was justified in striking him with a jar, a bottle or any other weapon handy and Officer Walter B. Burroughs evidently knows it. Certainly, his superior officers will even now so inform him. Accepting the statement then of Officer Burroughs, he is convicted out of his own mouth. Burroughs is an athlete and that aged grandfather was no match for him in a hand-to-hand struggle. (Continued on page 8) and harmony together. This indictment business might well be considered in the nature of a joke were it not for the serious consequences to follow Perry W. Howard's persecution. Powerful Negro organizations throughout the country should resent it. More than ten million Negroes have this one honest, able Negro leader to represent them on the Republican National Committee and they will see it at the ballot boxes in the States of the North and West that the blow aimed at them from this source shall be resented at the polls. Whether it will result in landing the "vote getting" Hon. Alfred E. Smith of New York or the able statistical Hon. Herbert Hoover of California in the White House of the Nation will be an after consid eration. 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There are thousands of American women in the same state of body and mind to-day. Let's see: For years they have been busy, pouring out nervous energy, and putting in next to nothing. Rest for the super-strained nervous system has never been thought of. This woman has not missed a bargain-sale in the city for years. She has kept up with everything that made demands on her; society, lodges, church duties, dinners to raise money for the heathen, slek kinkfolks, funerals of neighbors and friends, clubs, where the one that made the most noise the most popular, and thousand other people in polly unnecessary endearment, besides her preparing three daily meals,—going to bed last, and getting up first—and making the neighborhood's troubles her very own. This patient hasn't been sick an hour in twenty-five years! What humanity needs is a monkey-wrench, with which to be fastened down to common-sense. Even an asbestos nervous system housed in galvanized iron, would break to pieces under the fearful mental gymnastics of to-day. There is no sort of machine but will wear out under pressure—the human mechanism is no exception. Medicine will never take the place of rest. Stimulants have never cured a tired man or woman. Hypnotics never have produced a single month of healthy sleep. Next Week: Just Work TAKING CASH FROM WOMEN TUNNEY RETIRES COLOR IN MOTION PICTURES A PENNY PLUS 900 YEARS In New York a nurse, fifty-two years old, about to retire from hard work, kills herself. Her life's savings had been lost in a mining swindle. Real estate sharks, oil sharks, all kinds of sharks, swindle women. They believe, poor things, what they want to believe, that they are to be made rich. Women should not invest in what THEY DO NOT UNDERSTAND. They should not buy land that they have not seen. And having seen it, they should think it over, examine it several times, consult some skeptical friends, then wait a month, and see it again. Don't believe fairy tales. Ask yourself, "Just how would I, me, myself, not somebody else, actually make a living out of that land? Or, if it is to be sold at a profit, how do I know, that I can sell it at a profit? And why doesn't the man keep it and take the huge profit himself?" If you are leaving money to wife or daughters, fix things so that no other man will be able to get it from them. Gene Tunney, whom certain prickey fane" don't like, because he has brains and they haven't, retires from the ring. That, is said, the game" which no bad. No matter what champion they may develop to collect money from fools, it can never be proved that he could have beaten Tunney. Tunney, you read, "is going to Paris to study philosophy." An excellent place. The Sorbonne is well equipped. But the important thing is to BE a philosopher, not merely a student of other philosophers. If Tunney can take his $2,000,-000 quickly earned out of prize fighting and stay out he will have proved himself a philosopher. Mr. Eastman, king of all kinds of photography, announces perfected moving pictures in colors. With that announcement, pictures reach full development, MOTION, COLOR, SOUND. Now you will see the heroine's, or the vampire's rolling eyes, hear the voices that lure them to their doom. The moving picture stage will show all that the living stage can show --- P Hints for the Home by Nancy Hart Cleanliness within the refrigerator is most important—especially if baby foods are stored therein. The old-fashioned ice box should be scaled out periodically to keep it sweet and clean. In the best automatic refrigerators, however, the use of scalding water and soap is not necessary. Simply wiping the box out quickly with a cloth wet in a cold solution of baking soda and then wiping dry is sufficient. In the automatic type, defrosting the chilling unit is necessary about twice a month in order to maintain proper radiation of cold from the unit. It can be done over night. Before retiring, turn off the current—or gas, if you have one of the new noises from the refrigerators which open, or be gas. By morning the refrigerator is again ready function and the drip pan can be emptied and fresh water put in the ice-cube trays. Satisfying Vegetarian Menu Cream of tomato soup Spanish rice Ecalloped egg plant Buttered string beans Cottage cheese salad Ripe plum tarts Non-stimulating drink Foundation for Fresh Fruit Puddings Cream together a cup sugar (beet or cane) and tablepoon butter and beat one egg into it. Then add alternately a cup milk and two cups flour sifted with three teaspoons baking powder and a fourth teaspoon salt. Half fill buttered molds with batter, cover with any sweetened fresh fruit. Fill balance of mold with batter, cover and steam. A Tart Mint Jelly for Meats Mix a cup vinegar with a cup and a half water, add green vegetable colony and stir until dissolved. Add 6½ level cups sugar and bring to a boil. At once add a bottle of liquid pectin and bring again to full rolling boil and boil for a half minute. Remove, add teaspoon spearmint extract. Let stand one minute, skim, pour and seal. An Apple Sauce Children Like Cook six tart apples until tender Talking movies will put a premium on intelligence. A cultivated voice indicates a cultivated mind, and cannot be created over night. Roman coins dug up after 2,000 years are worth in silver and gold only what they were worth when buried. This shows the importance of keeping your money earning interest. A silver penny, like the one mentioned in the Bible, put out at interest compounded annually for only 900 years, would amount to $1,270,000,000,000. That's more money than there is in the world. A great fire raging over farm lands in the Northwest burns 75,000 acres of wheat and pasturage. Homes and ranches are burned with crops, farmers fighting it in vain. Would it be possible to equip a fleet of airplanes with chemical apparatus for extinguishing fire, to deal with a disaster of this kind? Aircraft manufacturers and those that manufacture chemical fire extinguishers might answer that question. Dr. Langsaer, marvelous hypnotist of Vienna, does and says things to worry the criminal. By hypnotism he caused a young Verno Booher, to confess after fifteen minutes the murder of his mother, sister and two hired men. AUTORAVER Gene Tunney, champion heavyweight, followed his sensational victory over Tom Heeney by the announcement that he is retiring permanently from the prize ring. THE RICHMOND PLANEF, RICHMOND, VIRGINLA in pint of boiling water. Add a half cup sugar and while still boiling, stir in package of fruit-flavored gelatin. Beat thoroughly and strain. Set in molds to harden and serve with sweetened cream. A Hint for the Man of the House Except for sports wear the rumpled soft collar is yielding to the new type of light plant white collar which, altho starched to contribute neatness of neck and tie, sacrifices nothing in comfort. "Very Latests" By Cecile Among the smartest suits for fall one sees ensembles with coats of varying lengths. The full length coat is still with us and perhaps holds first place. Two extremely chic new suits from over the seas, however, possess jackets of finger length. And a third suit—an attractive little model worn by Nancy Carroll, a Paramount player—has a three-quarter length coat of quite boxy lines. The fabric is one of the deep tones of brownish beige, the trimming a border of leopard skin. The French felt hat in a matching shade of beige has a puffy brown feather ball above one ear. Brown suede and kid shoes and beige hose complete the costume. A Beloved Tailored Theme With the decline of flat necklines and the development of collar and scarf effects, the shirt-bosom theme asserts itself in smart and youthful ways for tailored frocks. Tucked georgette and satin in shades of beige or nude are often used for the shirt-bosom vestee; again it is of the same material as the frock, the line of its stitching, being the only indication of its presence. "New Shoes" Among advance models shown, in footwear is the one strap pump of watersnake skin in shades of brown that are soft and dull and harmonious with fall's favorite colors. Combinations of brown kid with the brown watersnake are featured, altho the shoe entirely of the brown snakeskin is equally modish. 'Twill be a Velvet Season. All indications point to the popularity of velvet—both plain and printed—for the coming season. One clever costume noted on the Avenue combined a sleek black satin skirt with an overblouse of white chiffon velvet printed in blocks indicated by fine black lines and discs in solid black. With it a handsome scarf of silver-tipped fox was worn. New Color Films George Eastman, Kodak King, has introduced a process whereby amateur motion pictures may reproduce scenes in full natural colors. The new process utilizes a three color "light filter" and a new film with minute cylindrical lenses. Spurns Boyish Bob! Jackie Wells of Chicago claims the world's record for long hair. Her tresses are seven feet and two inches long. Jackie Wells of Chicago claims the world's record for long hair. Her tresses are seven feet and two inches long. AUTOCASTER THE HUMAN SPHINX by Ellis Parker Buller ILLUSTRATIONS BY RE.WATSON WHAT HAPPENED BEFORE John Drane, prosperous Westerster man of mystery, is visited by William Dart and by Billyood chum, Simon Judd. As he speaks to them, a young girl, Amy Drane, approaches him. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY "What was it, Amy?" John Drane asked. "Oh, nothing!" she said. "It was only about Robert; whether you wanted to see him now, but if you have visitors—" "This evening, perhaps," John Drane said. "But, one minute, Amy. This is an old friend of mine—" "Chum, black my cats, when we were kids, why don't you say, huh?" Simon Judd demanded. "He's afraid to tell, how long ago that was, huh?" "Yes, one of my boyhood chums," John Drane said, smiling slightly. "Simon Judd, in fact. And Judd, this is my grand-neice. Amy." The girl gave Judd her hand and for a minute or two they talked, the girl smiling and Judd laughing for no reason but because of his own unfailling good humor; then she said, having learned that the jolly fat man might stay a day or two, that Bob was waiting for her and, after a word of greeting to Dart, she hurried away. She did not like Dart; she had never liked him; she could not imagine what her uncle John saw in him. Dart stood stroking his gray beard, studying Simon Judd as the big man climbed the veranda steps. From the rear the movements of the man from Riverbank were almost grotesque as he hoisted his great bulk from step to step. "I think," Dart said, wan John Drane turned at the toy of the steps, "I'll come back later on tomorrow, perhaps." Drane scowled his annoyance. "Now, don't do that, William," he said. "You know I don't like to have my plans disarranged. You said you would stay the night and I have counted on it. I want to thrash that matter out with you. Don't be a fool." "I only thought, as you had Mr. Judd here—" "Now, that's just why I want you to stay," John Drane said. "If Sime and I get to talking boyhood days we'll never go to bed. Don't you see? We'll be talking over the old days. We'll never stop." "Can't stop me, once I get started, that's sure enough," laughed Simon Judd. "Talkin's my long suit, and always was, I guess. But don't you folks let me bust up any plans you've made. If you want to talk, I've got a lot of stuff I've got to read over sometime—stuff I come down to New York to get hold of. I been made Chief of Police back home, John." "That is interesting. At seventy, too, Simon." Drane said. "Yes, I guess they got around to where they thought they needed some brains at last," Simon Judd chuckled. "Folks do, sometimes. Yes, sir; made me Chief of Police of Riverbank, sure as you're a foot high." William Dart had come up the steps and taken one of the wicker chairs. He put his elbows on its arms and now began revolving his thumbs, leaning forward and looking off over the lawn. "Yes, sir, John," Simon Judd continued cheerfully, "I been all my life tryn' one thing and another, but you can't discourage a good man; sooner or later he's goin' to find out what he's made for. There was one time I tried preachin' and it looked awhile like that was goin' to be it, but I ain't got the voice for it—when I go to let loose the voice gets squeaky on me. There was awhile I tried the butcher business, but sight of blood always did make me faintish, so I sort of gave that up, too. But I got the right thing now, John. Pretty near ever since I was a boy I've had a leanin' toward it." "Being a policeman?" William asked. "Crime tracin'," explained Simon Judd, turning toward the little man in black. "Huntin' out who done the crime. What you call detective work. I feel I got genius that way." "And that's what brought you to F.E. WATSON The old man . . . lay with his head thrown back against the pillow. The old man . . . lay with his head thrown back against the pillow. New York, Simon?" Drane asked. "Are you on the track of a criminal?" "Lands o' goodness, nol!" laughed Simon David, slapping his huge thigh. "Why. I ain't started in yet, John! I don't get my badge until first of the year. No sirl! I come down here to have a look around and see how these New York detective fellers manage the business. And I must say they're right to strangers; told me a lot of things; gave me lots of pamphlets, and on, and another. It's goin to help me a lot, John! I got the genius for it, all right, but I got to brush up on the technic more or less. I guess, though, maybe I'll get along all right." Norbert, as if knowing what was desired, appeared on the veranda with cigars—long slender light cigars of admirable quality. Dart and Drane took cigars, but Judd hesitated. "Mostly I smoke a pipe, John," he said, "and when I do go in for F.E. WATSON The old man . . . lay with his he a cigar I kind of like 'em dark and strong. But, I don't know; I'll risk one. Now, if you fellers had anything to talk over—" "We can do that later," John Drane said "Tell me about Riverbank; not many changes, I suppose" "Well, yes," Simon Judd said, puffing at his cigar. "Say, this ain't such a bad smoke, is it? Yes, quite a few changes, John. Main Street ain't changed much, but out around--you'd be surprised. Say, that niece of yours is a mighty nice girl, ain't she? You didn't say she was your niece, did you?" "I said she was my grand-nice," said John Drane, and William Dill looked up at him suddenly. There was a question in his eyes—a question and fright. If he feared anything, however, there was no sign of anything to fear in Simon Judd's face. The fat man was finding unexpected pleasure in his cigar. "She stay here with you all the time?" he asked. "She's making her home with me now—yes," John Drane answered. "That's nice—nice to have young folks around." Simon Judd said, "And, as she is saying about the church in Riverbank—you know that field where we used to go to hunt rabbits? Bailey's field, John? Well, you don't know it—all built up with houses; streets and all gas and electric, sweets, everything! You remember little Ross Gartner—father used to run the Western Hotel! He developed that part of town." With Simon Judd talking and John Drane asking a question now and then, they remained there on Norbert's table. Then Norbert called them to dinner. On Sunday mornings John Drane and his household usually slept later than usual and breakfast was not served until nine. At nine, this morning, Mrs. Vincent—who for many years had sat at the foot of John Drane's table behind the coffee pot and toaster—stood in the breakfast room waiting for her employer. She stood near her chair and she seemed to be suffering, for her eyes were closed and she held one hand against the small of her back. She was actually in great pain, for she was a diabetic and at times the pains caused by her condition were almost more than she could bear. Presently, as no one appeared in the breakfast room other than the maid Joie, Mrs. Vincent drew out her chair and sand her hands to move on momentary notice. Her face was unusually pale, of the natural nature to those suffering from her disease, but she was dressed as always, neatly. "Josie," she said presently and with considerable effort, "I think you had better have Norbert call Mr. Drane and the other men again. They can't have gotten up." "Yes, ma'm," the maid said. "If they felt the way I do they never would get up." "You're not so well this morning?" "Oh, I feel just awful!" the girl exclaimed, almost in tears. "I don't hardly feel like I could drag through the day. I'm that weak, Mrs. Vincent!" "Your heart again?" "Yes, like always, only last night, it pained me worse than ever it did. It was something terrible, Mrs. Vincent." "I don't know what's the matter with us—all sick like we are," the housekeeper said. "You better tell Norbert." The girl went to find the negro. d thrown back against the pillow. homeman. She returned almost immediately. "He's got one of them awful coughing spells again," she said. "I guess I'll have to go myself, and I don't feel hardy able." She looked at Mrs. Vincent, but that poor woman was suffering. "I guess you'll have to go, Josie, she managed to say." "We got to give myself for breakfast; Mr. Drane don't like it for me to be away from breakfast," and the girl went. On the vananda—for it was there the small family gathered before breakfast in the new weather—Amy Drane was sitting on the arm of a chair looking through the yages of the huge Sunday newspaper, and she had just opened wide a double page of brown illustrations when she heard a piercing scream from the floor above and the fall of a body to the floor. She threw aside the paper and, swinging open the screen door, ran up the wide stairs. In the hall Simon Judd, trousered but coatless and with his suspenders hanging, was coming down the passage from the yellow guest room as hastily as his huge bulk could move, and at the open door of John Drane's room the girl Josie lay out stretched on the floor unconscious. Amy Drane about to bend down she nausea when her eyes grasped her uncle on his arm and the stood white and speckled, petrified with horror, his head turned back against the pillow, his glassy eyes staring at her, and the front of his pajama coat was sodden with blood from a spot over the heart to the bed covers drawn close about him. "What's the matter?" Simon Judd asked, and then he took, looking past Amy, saw the dead man. "He's been murdered!" he exclaimed, and Amy felt something huge lean against her back. "Black my cats, Simon Judd said weekly," he tainted! and he did; his vast bulk thrusting Amy into the room as he fell across the body of Josie the maid. Continued Next Week ```markdown ``` SEVER KELLY MILLERS' AUTHENTIC HISTORY OF NEGRO IN WORLD WAR A GREAT NEW WORLD WAR HISTORY In addition to its containing a graphic account of the War, includes many chapters on subjects of vital interest. Following are a few of the subjects treated: The Flash that Set the World Aflame—Why Americans Entered the War—The Things that Made Men Mad—The Sinking Submarine—The Eyes of Battle—War's Strange Devices—Wonderful War Weapons—The World's Armies—The World's Navies—The Nations at War—Modern War Methods—Women and the War. A volume of general information upon all subjects which have their bearing upon the World Conflict, as well as an authentic account of the Great World War. The Book also includes the following subjects: The Horrors and Wonders of Modern Warfare. 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He had no glass jar in his hand with which to strike the officer But pre- suming that he did have, here was a young, trained athlete with skill, muscular power, a blackjack, a revol- ver pitted against an unarmed aged Negro, and he was so scared of him that he had to kill him. The mute body of James Sharp tells its own story. He was shot three times. Those tell-tale bullet wounds upon that ebony-hued body speak out in cla- rion tones. On the left side of his head is a wound about three-eighths of an inch deep where the bullet plowed its way. Through the right nipple is another hole through which another bullet plowed its way. To the left on his breast is still an- other hole, through which another bullet plowed its way, penetrating James Sharp’s heart, while he pleaded with his slayer, “Don't shoot me no more!” These wounds were made so quickly that the reports from that deadly police revolver sounded like one shot, and those who heard them were of the opinion that there were only two shots fired, when as a matter of fact three bul- lets had ended the career of this old man inside of the humble precincts of his own home. Not a single drop of whiskey was found upon the premises, not a sin- gle weapon of any kind was found in any part of this retreat for the low- ly. A sick brother, who has been serving the Master from time to time by preaching in a country church, saw his brother slain before his eyes by a man armed with the authority of the law and who stood sworn to protect the law-abiding. When Willie Branch, the 17-year-old youth, came forward and testified that he was the one being chased and that he was hiding under a table in the yard when Burroughs rushed into the doorway of James Sharp's house, that completed the case against Officer Walter B. Bur- roughs. Under the law, no officer could enter James Sharp’s house without the permission of James Sharp or without a search warrant authorizing such a procedure, for James Sharp was not either suspected or charged with any crime. We have repeated: ‘ly insisted that there is enough law |in Virginia to give us our rights and we have had upon the bench of the Supreme Court of Appeals of thi: State jurists able and just enough to accord them to us. Those we can- not secure in this State upon the present showing we have decided to go without, Let us see: Article I, Constitution of Virginia, reads: ‘That all men are by nature equal- ly free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, qwhen they enter into a’state of 50- ‘ciety, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity; namely, the enjoyment of life. and liberty,’ with the means of acquiring and possessing property and pur- Suing and obtaining happiness and safety. ‘When Policeman Walter B. Bur- roughs shot down in cold blood old man James Sharp while he pleaded for his life, he violated this part of [the fundamental guarantees of the Constitution of this State. | Article I, section 8, reads: ‘That no man shall ‘be deprived of his life, or his liberty, except by the law of the land, or the judgment of his peers. | Policeman Walter B. Burroughs says that James Sharp struck him on ‘the head with a glass jar while he | (Burroughs) was violating the Con- ‘stitution of Virginia by entering ‘Sharp’s home without a warrant, ‘causing a wound so slight that it re- quires a close inspection to see any mark there, the skin not even being broken, and for that he took Sharp’s life, while the law specifically pro- vides how such offenses shall be pun- ished, either by the Police Court Justice, John L. Ingram, or by a jury of white men in the Hustings Court of this city. | We say white men for the reason that only citizens of that color pass upon such cases, and Burroughs would not trust the punishment of James Sharp for the alleged assault- ing of him to white men of Bur- roughs color. Let us look at and read another section from the Con- stitution of Virginia: - Article I, section 10, reads: ‘That general warrants, whereby an officer or messenger may be com- manded to search suspected places without evidence of a fact commit- ted, or to seize any person or_per- sons not named, or whose offense is not particularly deseribed and sup- THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA M2 - ——$—$<—<—$—$$—$<$<— | MOSQUE, ian notin | WEEK AUGUST 20 MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY TIFFANY-STAHL present ‘A Woman Againsé the W a’ by ALBERT SHELBY LeVINO with ] } HARRISON FORD. GBORGIA HALE GERVRUDE OLMSTEAD | | Teicsraral mig vee od La peictny eve Seueyia Veet | | Loan, protesting his innocence, is accused of murder, and. | | sentenced to death. | THURSDAY, FRIDAY and SATURDAY BETTY COMPSON in CHEATING CHEATERS yA UR mee eit eee 2 ee _.. A Notorious Band of society crooks meet their match when they run foul of another band of society crooks, each thinking the other honest! (M6 = Stee Cool, Comfortable, Surroundings Palatlal. 2 fo 44 P.M, Main St, Bntrance Open ‘ADMISSION: Adults 25cts Children s0cte | Pri | A. D. Tice, Jr. Funeral Director «i Mortician ____(SUCCESSOR TO A. D. PRICE) First Class Caskets of Latest Designs. Complete Equipment of the Latest Stlye Funeral Cars Fumished Either Day or Night on Short Notice. Orders Received and Filled from All Parts of the Country. We Never Close. PHONES MADISON 577 and MADISON 162. 212 EAST LEIGH STREET Bea by evidence, are grievous and ‘oppressive, and ought not to be granted. | When Policeman Walter B. Bur- roughs entered James Sharp's hum- ble home, he violated this part of the Constitution of Virginia and he was not acting as an officer of the law, but upon his own motion as an individual and he became a tres- passer, liable to expulsion by the oc- cupant of the house that he invaded. But poor old man James Sharp did not repel him, for he was too busy begging for his life. Burroughs had butt his head against the upper part of the door-frame when he dived into that rear room and he was angry. Those three strands of his hair on the door frame, as testified to in the evidence, settled that. He proceed- ed to lynch old man James Sharp in violation of the law. He admittedly killed him as an officer of the law. What does the Constitution say about this? By what process alone jean death be meted in this State? Tt cannot be done with a knife. It cannot be done with a rope. It can- not be done with a gun or with a revolver. It cannot be done with poison, It must be done with the electric chair. Burroughs did not have an elec- trie chair in his possession that night. He had a blackjack and a revolver and he used first the weapon that he should have used last, if he had been permitted to use any at all, He had his fists. He did not use them, He had a blackjack. There is no evidence but his own word that he used that. The dead body discloses no wound made by any such weapon. He had a revolver and he used that and killed a man in a manner that the law says a man shall not be killed in this State. Article I, section 8, reads: That no man shall be deprived of his life, or liberty, except by the law of the land, or the judgment of his peers. ‘That in all criminal prosecutions a man hath a right to demand the cause and nature of his accusation, to be confronted with the accusers and witnesses, to call for evidence in his favor, and to a speedy trial by an impartial jury of his vicinage, without whose unanimous consent he cannot be found guilty. James Sharp is beyond human aid and suffering, but his grandfather- less eight children and his fatherless daughter are in dire straits, Walter B. Burrot the result of your hasty action. believe in God and the saying eof Jesus Christ? How could you punish all these innocents and step aside from your official duties to be charged officially with murder? Did you mean to kill him? ‘The warrant says you did not. You said that you did. You told Officer R. B. Sterling that you intended to kill him to save your life. You said you killed him in self- defense. You are afraid to die and you consider a blow from one of God's creatures of dark complexion a justification to take a human life. The alleged blow was a mere scratch. The public wishes to know how @ blow from a glass jar in the hands of James Sharp, delivered some, eight or more fect away from the door, could drive three strands of your sandy colored hair into the door jamb, through which opening you had just entered? You may be able to sleep, but the memory of that fateful night in that humble Negro’s home will haunt you to your grave. We hope that the churches of thi city will conduct prayer services for this erring member of the “bootleg squad.” Officer Burroughs’ owr statement of the case, these citations of the law conclude this summary of ‘one of the most outrageous assaults upon our fundamental laws and the destruction of one of the most sa- ered traditions of this Commonwealth that it has ever been eur duty to record, I call it murder,— There you hev it plain and flat; I don't want to go no furder ‘Than my Testament for that. —Ibid, Biglow Papers. Thou wear a lion’s hide! doff it for shame, ‘And hang a ‘calf’e-skin on those re creant limbs. | —Shakespeare.. SSS Q>.°.°0wqX > Bargain One Month's Rent Free Three large rooms, hot and cold ‘water. Toilet on same floor. $13.50 PER MONTH Brook Ave, and Oak Street. Immediate Possession. J.D. Carneal & Sons, No. 42 N 9th St. eee How To Stop All Perspiration And Other Body Odors..... 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