FATE OF BARD AND FLEMING IN HANDS OF JUDGE DAWSON
Madisonville Officials And Citizens At Petition Hearing
Arguments by John L. Grayot of the counsel representing the officials at Madisonville, Ky., and Clem Huggins for the counsel representing the petitioners for Bard and Fleming last Tuesday evening, closed the hearing before Judge Charles I. Dawson of the Federal court, on the writ of habeas corpus, to determine whether or not the two men who were sentenced to be hanged at Madisonville for an alleged assault upon a white girl, Nell Catherine Breithaupt, on April of last year (and saved at the eleventh hour by Louisville colored people, supported and cooperated with by members of the race over the state, through their attorneys, on the habeas corpus writ issued by Judge Dawson, were given a fair and impartial trial. The hearing took up the whole of Monday and Tuesday, occupied the front pages of daily newspapers and attracted hundreds to the Federal Court room - which included a greater number of colored people whose spirit is that of the thousands of good law abiding citizens of Kentucky who want to see every individual white and black given equal justice before the courts of their state, arrested, tried and sentenced through the due process of law, by officials, jury and judge who are not influenced by a people whose spirit is that of a mob, whether it is displayed in actions or not.
Never in the history of court procedure has the writer seen or heard of a more orderly crowd of [colored?] people, even though many were not able to get into the court, and we have never seen more consideration given colored people in any court than that of Judge Dawson and his court attaches which included Mr. Bridgeford Sims, well known race man, who has been connected with the court since the days of Judge Walter Evans, and on under Judge C. C. Moorman.
Cases of Harris and Merchant Support Circumstances Surrounding Bard and Fleming's Case.
The fight colored people are making that Bard and Fleming may not pay the extreme penalty for the crime charged with until they are proven guilty beyond any reasonable doubt, before as fair and impartial jury as can be had in a community where the mob spirit does not prevail, and fostered by the local N. A. A. C. P. here, with G. P. Hughes, President, Mrs. Bessie Etherly Secretary, Revs. T. Timberlake and J. B. Cox, Vice Presidents, and Dr. J. A. C. Lattimore, A. L. Garvin, W. H. Steward, Wm. Warley and I. Willis Cole, members of the ex-executive committee, and others, not based alone upon circumstances surrounding Bard and Fleming case but trials and results of them at Lexington, Ky., where Ed Harris was speeded to the gallows for an alleged assault upon a white woman, which was not proven, and of Charles Merchant for an assault upon a 11 year old colored school girl, which was not denied, but for which he was declared insane.
All Madisonville Officials and Leading Citizens Here.
The granting of the eleventh hour writ by Judge Dawson, and bringing the hearing before his court here, brought to the city and into court all the high officials of Madisonville and Hopkins county, headed by Judge Laffoon, before whom Bard and Fleming were tried, and about one hundred of the leading citizens, including lawyers, preachers, doctors, business men and a few women, including Beth Hoffman, the clerk of the court. The array of attorneys for the authorities was headed by Mayor M. K. Gordon, who shared with Charles Franklin, attorney, in an examining and cross examining the witnesses. Mayor Gordon, who has often been spoken of as a friend of the race, often referred to colored people as "niggers," not even dropping it out of his expressions out of regard for the Federal Court. This was true of Franklin and also of J. T. Gooch, the prosecuting attorney in the case who was sharply questioned by Judge Dawson as to why Stum, the young fellow who carried the girl out to the dark place at the Country Club was not called upon to identify Bard and Fleming at the proper time. Captain Barnes, another so-called friend of the race, and claiming himself a friend Attorney Walter Robinson of Hopkinsville, referred to his friend as the "nigger" Robinson, when called upon to deny that he had advised Robinson to get out of Madisonville as soon as he could that he might not be molested, etc., as testified to by Attorney Robinson, who was in Modisonville to represent the local N. A. A. C. P. in behalf of Bard and Fleming. He was accompanied by Editor William Warley who, backing up Robinson's testimony, testified that feeling was so high and general conditions were of such because the alleged offense that they found it hard to get a place to stop even among colored people; that when at one place as their identity became known, they were asked to leave by their colored friend and later advised to go to Providence for the night. The weather being bad, they finally found a place out in the city but did not make themselves known. When in the court room by a pass given them, they were advised by a deputy to leave, and with Captain Barnes in charge of the soldiers, who
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Louisville Boy Leads A. U. Team
Frank L. Stanley who is one of the leading athletes of Atlanta University, has been chosen to captain the "Crimson Hurricane" basket-ball team for 1927-1928. Being a clean sport and a hard fighter he was the unanimous choice of his team mates. He is certain to make a good leader. The former Central High School star who came to A. U. just two years ago, is also the alternate captain of the football team. Coming to A. U. as an All State fullback from Kentucky, Stanley made the team his first year in college. For the past season he was picked in several All Southern teams and given "honorable mention" on "Fay" Young's All American. As to his basketball ability Stanley is considered one of the best guards in the South, being an exceptionally good floor man. Stanley is also playing baseball, bids fair to [being?] a three letter man. In short Stanley is just another one of those good athletes that Central High is famous for turning out.
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MadisonvilIe Officials And Citizens At
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