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AIKEN WHITES THREATEN WALTER WHITE IN N. Y.(Continued from page 1)“all bluff and intimidation/* but that they represented “a scheme to get' you back there to do violence to you.” Mr. Southard volunteers to come north and appear before Governor Smith of New York to argue against extradition of Mr. Whiteshould extradition be demanded byGovernor McLeod. Mr. Southard writes to Mr. White: “You startedthe work and that is what they do not want and they know that the world will know the guilty ones and that is another thing that they donot want.”2. A sworn affidavit has been sent to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, at 69 Fifth Ave., signed by J. Murray Lane, a white man who was in court when Demon Lowman was acquitted and immediately afterward saw “law enforcement” officers “juggling around the jail,” clearing away automobiles. The affidavit in full reads as follows:South Carolina, Aiken County.Personally appeared before me J. MURRAY LANE, sworn says, That on the afternoon and evening of October 7, 1926, immediately after Demon Lowman had been declared Not Guilty in Court of General Sessions at Aiken I was in and around Aiken Court House at Aiken, S. C., That Policeman Jas. Woodward came out and ordered all cars to move out from around the jail and school-house. I saw juggling around the jail by the officers, Nollie Robinson, A. D. Sheppard, Pink Gaddy, Ed Andrews, and some others, some I did not know. All of them appeared very SORE and MAD. This was between sundown and dark, right after court adjourned. I went on home and did not know that the three Lowmans had been taken from the jail and lynched until the next morning, but I sure was expecting to hear it, from what I saw the evening before.N. Y. World Active.The four names mentioned in the affidavit are among those sent to Gov. McLeod by Mr. White.3. The New York World, continuing its inquisition into the lynching, in special dispatches published conspicuously on its front page, is arousing the press and the entire state of South Carolina.In its issue of today, The World prints telegrams from South Carolina editors showing that most of the white dailies condemn the lynching and are demanding punishment of the lynchers. As a sample of the comments telegraphed to The World by South Carolina editors, are the following:Pierre H. Fike, Editor Spartanburg Journal: “The Aiken lynchingis one of the foulest blots on the honor of South Carolina. . . . Those who participated in the Aiken lynching know in their hearts that they are cowardly, brutal murderers. . . . The punishment of the guilty parties ought to be the business of every South Carolinian.”Charles O. Hearon, Editor Spartanburg Herald: “Every man who respects law and order should demand that the mob members be punished.”R. Charlton Wright, Editor Columbia Record: “The Aiken lynchingsstand out as the most ferocious and abhorrent crimes committed in South Carolina during the many years of my residence here.”A number of editors, however, resent “outside intrusion” and predict there will be no convictions no matter what the evidence uncovered.If what people think about us was subtracted from wThat we think of ourselves, the result would be about four times what we actually are.
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The Saint Paul Echo
Saint Paul, Minnesota, US
Sat, Nov 27, 1926
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