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...sheriff felt his pistol pulled from the holster, turned to find Picky Pie aiming at his head. Hatcher ducked and the bullet went into the ceiling. In the scuffle, the sheriff's pistol got lost. The sheriff took his prisoner back to town and put him in a cell with another Negro in the jail on the second floor of the sheriff's house. Then he went back to get his pistol. It took him 2½ hours...
...trouble. The keys to the jail were on a cabinet in the living room, where the sheriff had left them, and the front door was open-"if I lock it the lock sticks," explained the sheriff. The men calmly picked up the keys and went upstairs to the cell. "Come on, Picky Pie, let's go," one said. Without a protest, Picky Pie walked out with them. Mrs. Hatcher, asleep downstairs, heard no commotion...
...Memory. At the inquest, Tom Carswell, the Negro who had shared Hill's cell, shook perceptibly as he was questioned. "They were white and there were two of them," he said. Did he recognize them? "I know just about everybody around here, but I never saw those two before." Wispy-haired Coroner C. C. Thompson, who is also Mclntyre's town butcher, asked: "You probably couldn't identify the men if you saw them again, could you?" "No, suh," said Carswell eagerly...
...Haven has a very strong communist cell," he said, "I think the FBI very probably had an underground agent actually in that cell, but all this is just conjecture, you know...
Since many of these "cell" members were also in the Wallace party, Provost Furniss pointed out, an underground agent would know of their association with Mr. Cohen...