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Into Birmingham's Jefferson County jail last week walked an agitated family. One member of it was Nell Williams, daughter of a prominent lawyer. Last summer, she was riding with her sister Augusta and another girl near Birmingham when a Negro jumped on their car's running board, made them drive into the woods, threatened to "get even for what your race has done to mine." He then shot and killed Miss Williams' sister and the other girl (TIME...
With Miss Williams as she entered the jail were her mother, father and brother Dent, 25. A prudent sheriff searched Dent Williams for weapons and was not surprised to find a revolver. The family was then led into a room where a Negro named Willie Peterson, suspected of the crime, was to be re-identified by Miss Williams. Willie Peterson had been arrested fortnight before when, walking in Birmingham with her brother Dent, Nell Williams had suddenly pointed and screamed, "That's him! That's him!" Brother Dent had covered the Negro with a gun until police came...
Ironically, one of the first cases on his docket the next morning was the trial of a drunken driver. A jury found the man guilty, Judge Oakes sentenced him to jail for 90 days, but did not impose fine or costs, suspended sentence until the man could harvest his crops. Three days later Judge Oakes sent his driver's license to the State Registrar of Motor Vehicles, his resignation from the bench to Governor John Gilbert Winant. The following day he presided at the trial of a hit-&-run driver. As the trial got under way, a court attendant...
Shocked silence fell in the courtroom. Then Judge Ferguson pronounced: "Your remarks are disorderly, contemptuous and insolent. I sentence you to pay a fine of $250 and to spend ten days in the county jail...
Bertha Stott left Detroit, went to Canada, remained there three weeks until a writ was issued for her brother Ernest in Ontario. Last week she returned and went to jail. A few hours later she was in hysterics. She had to be taken to a hospital, where police and nurses guarded her watchfully. Judge Ferguson said he might have her examined by a psychiatrist...