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There were two speakers at the meeting. The first, W. R. Taylor '36, presented a detailed account of the trial of the nine Scottsboro boys accused of rape, and pointed out the miscarriage of justice due to racial prejudice. Petitions for their immediate and unconditional pardon were passed to the listeners...
...civil indictment and Methodist church trial of Rev. G. Lemuel Conway of Muncie, Ind. on a charge of attempting to rape an 18-year-old parishioner named Helen Huffman (TIME. Feb. 6, et seq.): acquittal in a circuit court jury trial. Ten farmers, a teacher and a salesman heard testimony by Miss Huffman, Mrs. Conway, a neighbor, and a woman who told how Miss Huffman had twice before accused men of attacking her. Mr. Conway appealed to his church on the strength of his civil acquittal, but the original church sentence-suspension from his pulpit for one year-was upheld...
Tschiffely's civilized Argentine sensibilities were often revolted by what he saw in more backward South American countries. He disliked the way Bolivian Indians crawled up to white men on their knees, kissed their feet. In Bolivia he was an unwilling witness of the rape of a 13-year-old Indian girl. In Chiapas, Mexico, he saw a boy of 18 shot in cold blood by an officer, left to die in the street. Prudent Traveler Tschiffely, his eye on his goal, knew it was useless to interfere in such cases...
...which rendered their decisions far from impartial. At times the prisoners had to be protected by the National Guard from the mobs of Southern gentlemen bent on indulging themselves in a lynching or burning party. When it was bruited about Dixle that Negroes were on the stand for the rape of white women, and were being defended by a Jewish lawyer who belonged to the International Labor Defense, a Communist-affiliated organization, it was plain enough which way the verdict was due to fall. It was a foregone conclusion that the attempt to get at least one negro...
Lycanthropy was a family failing among the Pitamonts. One Christmas Eve in mid-Nineteenth Century Paris Bertrand, product of Father Pitamont's rape of a servant girl, was born into the tradition. A preternaturally quiet baby, he had hair on his palms. Aside from this infallible sign, his adopted father Aymar had good reason to know all about him. He took the child and his mother into the country and brought the boy up carefully, hoping for the best. But lycanthropy will out: before Bertrand was full-grown farmers thereabouts began to complain of midnight raids on their sheep...