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That night John Gibson, Lillian's father, and a wrathful posse of 300 hillmen scoured the woods, caught a 22-year-old illiterate Negro named E. K. Harris. He was accused of Lillian's rape, taken to the Shelbyville jail. When a hillbilly mob went to Shelbyville, demanding that Harris be turned over to them, authorities spirited Harris away, first to Murfreesboro, then up to Nashville...
...former case, nine negro boys in Alabama were sentenced to death for a rape which one of the prosecutrixes has since denied was ever committed. The third appeal of the case is now being heard before the Supreme Court...
...open, increasing the horror of his face, the dirty beard, the haunted eyes, the filth, and the very long lower teeth. I felt great love for him, even though he was ugly with the vilest ugliness of man, ghastly sexual ugliness: anger, amazement, and the desire to kill or rape, in his eyes." The Author. William Saroyan's father was a professor in his native Armenia; as an immigrant in Manhattan, he rose to be a janitor. Author Saroyan was born in the Fresno vineyard district of California, whither his father had gone to try his luck farming. Educated...
...Said Hamilton Cotton, who ran George Creel's campaign: "I sorrowfully concede the rape of the Democratic Party in California by Upton Sinclair...
...field artillery officer wounded in action. Today he is a prolific fictionist. His wife, patrician Grace Bell Fortescue, is a cousin once removed of the late great Alexander Graham Bell. Their eldest daughter, Thalia Fortescue Massie, got world-wide attention two years ago in Honolulu's sensational rape-&-murder case (TIME, Jan. 18, 1932). Daughter Thalia more recently has made headlines by her divorce from Lieut. Thomas Hedges Massie, U. S. N. (TIME, March 5), by reputed attempts at suicide (TIME, April 16). Daughter Marion ("Rion") has remained mostly on the society pages following her marriage to Daulton Gillespie...