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...your issue of Dec. 31, you published an alleged account of the trial of E. K. Harris, a Negro, on a charge of rape, in the Circuit Court of Bedford County, Tenn...
...says, that John Gibson, the father, with a wrathful posse of 300 hillmen scoured the woods, caught the 22-year-old Negro, named E. K. Harris, accused of the rape, and took him to the Shelbyville Jail, and a hillbilly mob demanded Harris be turned over to them. These statements are untrue. . . . There was no hillbilly mob. Mr. Gibson is not a hillbilly...
...failed to wipe them out the Turkish government resolved to utilize its strength as an ally of the Central Powers and to eliminate the Armenians completely from the picture. The Armenian villages were uprooted and the people pushed on a horror-filled march which led only to starvation, rape, murder and eventual death for all. Village by village the Armenians were driven into nothingness until the Ittihad pointed at the villages about the mountain of Musa Dagh on the northern Syrian coast. Here under the leadership of Gabriel Bagradian, a wealthy Armenian who was caught in the maelstrom when...
Jonas Lauretz, mountaineer sawmiller, was a hard man and not a good one. A notable blasphemer, drunkard, cuckolder and seducer, he was a byword in the district, but his neighbors did not know the half of it. He beat his wife, crippled his son, tried to rape his daughter, kept them all in terrified submission. Only his daughter Sylvelie, a flower-on-the-dunghill type, regarded him without loathing. She escaped some of the family horror by working as house-servant and model to a famed old painter, who in gratitude left her a small fortune when he died. Because...
...recent attempted lynching at Shelbyville, Tennessee, presents an unusually clear picture of the race hatred that still inflames the South. The charge against the intended negro victim was the usual one of rape. No evidence pointed to E.K. Harris, but he was black and handy and was therefore charged with the crime. Subsequent medical examination of the fourteen-year old girl who had aroused the uproar disclosed the fact that she actually had suffered nothing but a few black-and-blue marks. Nevertheless, the mob of white farmers was so infuriated that, failing to capture Harris, it burned down...