Word: whitt
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Guilty Still paralyzed by a bullet in his spine, Negro Sharecropper Thomas Harris raised himself painfully from his stretcher and pointed at the defendant. It was 25-year-old Windol Whitt, he swore, who had stood at the back door of his house with a shotgun the night three of his children were murdered and another wounded by three drunken white hoodlums. By Mississippi law, that was all the prosecutor had to prove. Last week an all-white jury in the little town of Kosciusko (pop. 4,291) brought in the verdict...
Bushy-haired, gum-chewing Windol Whitt was found guilty of murder, sentenced to life imprisonment. His brother and one other companion are still to be tried for the same crime...
...Hogjaw's way. His opportunity began with a simple bit of Negro baiting at a sharecropper's cabin near the town of Kosciusko (pop. 4,291) in central Mississippi. Three drunken bully boys-an ex-convict and moonshiner named Leon Turner and two brothers, Malcolm and Wendell Whitt-broke into the cabin of a Negro named Thomas Harris. They attempted to rape his wife, stole household effects and terrorized his family. A few days later, after the Negro's neighbors complained, the trio was arrested and held for trial...
...trio, Malcolm Whitt, gave himself up when the liquor ran out. The other two hid out. A sheriff's posse was organized to track them down-and the peerless Hogjaw and his hounds were requisitioned from the prison farm. Hogjaw turned up, burly and cocky, in a bright red shirt and striped pants. He belted on a pistol and holster, and at rainy daybreak put three dogs, High Rollin' Red, Nigger and Alabama, on the trail...
...murders of the Negro children, asked speedy prosecution of the criminals. Mayor Alton Massey of Kosciusko proclaimed a "Thomas Harris Day," urged donations of money for the family. Kosciusko's outraged white citizens agreed to hire an attorney to assist in the prosecution of Turner and the Whitt brothers...