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IIIVH IIIUl.erty. (Continued 011 pageSouth Carolina Tries to Extradite Secretary of the N. 71. for A. *J. fNew York, Nov. IS.—Startling developments in the exposure of conditions surrounding the recent lynching or one colored woman and two men in Aiken. South Carolina, include the following:1. A letter from L. G. Southard, white lawyer who defended the mob victims, to Walter White asserting that the '•bribery** charges against the N. A. A. C. P. investigator were ••all bluiT and intimidation.'* but that they represented “a scheme to get you back there to do v.oleme to you. Mr. Southard volunteers to come North and appear before Gov ernor Smith of New York to argue against extradition of Mr. White should extradition be demanded by Governor McLeod. Mr. Southard writes to Mr. White: '-You started the 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 do not want.2. A sworn affidavit has been sent to the Nat onnl Association for the Advancement of Colored People, at 69 Fifth Ave.. signed by J. Murray Lane, a whtte man who whs in court when Demon toman was acquitted nnd Immediately afterward saw ’'law enforcement** of fleers '*Jug gllng around the jaP ** clearing awnv automobiles. The affidavit reads as follows:South Carolina Aiken County.Personally appeared before me J. MI7RRAY LAND, sworn .•-.tvs. That on the afternoon and evening of O-t^ber 7th. f92G, Immediately after Demon toman had been declared Not Guilty In Court of General Sessions at Aiken • *as in and around Aiken Court House at Aiken S. C . That Po'lceman Jas. Wood w*rd cnme out and ordered all cars to move out from around the Jnll and HrbooJbonse. f so* juggling around the Jail bv tbe officers Nol-l»e F*oblt;n«ion A. D. Sheppard. Pik (faddy Kd Andrews, and some others some T did not know. All of them appeared very SONK and MAD Th*s was between sundown and dark, right after court ad loomed T went on homo and did not know that the three Lowmans had been taken from the Jail and lynched until the ne^t mornlnr Put T sure was expo-tfng to hear It. from what T saw the even Ing before(Continued on Page 5 )
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Richmond Planet
Richmond, Virginia, US
Sat, Nov 27, 1926
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