3 10 423 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Student Name Liam Eynan Summary The Planet criticizes the take of fellow paper, the Richmond Dispatch, on the Lunenburg Case, by picking apart their article claim by claim. Item Type Article Image No URL https://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=RP18960711.1.2&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- Topic Crime and Justice Times Repeated Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound The Richmond Dispatch, in its issue of July 5th, 1896, declares its position relative to the celebrated Lunenburg Case, and true to its past policy of being a "dyed in the wool moss-back Negro-hating journal" declares its disbelief in the following language: "Almost with his last breath, Solomon Marable repeated the white-man story, but we are still unconvinced." But see upon what flimsy evidence it would discredit the statement of a dying man being ushered into eternity: "In the first place, aa we are informed, Mr. Thompson has unimpeachable evidence to establish an alibi. He is the express-agent at the place of residence, and we are told, among other things, that the express company records show that he receipted for parcels delivered there twenty minutes before the murder was committed, and this, mind you, at a place eight miles distant from the Pollard homestead and accessible thereto only by private conveyance." It is amusing to a person acquainted with the facts to conjecture how Dispatch found out just when the murder was committed; as it is to ascertain its authority for the statement that it is eight miles from the Pollard homestead to Finneywood. Those best acquainted with neighborhood concede that it is only half that distance. Lawyer Justis has repeatedly asserted that the man who acts for Thompson in his absence at Finneywood admitted to him that he was on a spree on June 14, 1896. The patch says: "In the second place, Marable, when arrested, told what would seem to be the true story. Death then had for him far more terror than it had afterwards. At that time, no doubt, he believed he was in danger of being lynched, and had he been put to death then and there we would never have heard of this 'white-man story." Lucius M. Pettus, half-brother to David James Thompson was crouching before Marable in the court-room, with a revolver in his pocket, winked and whispered to the trembling witness to put the women in it, and were not to implicate his half-brother. That the following should have been the result is no surprise: "Ignorant and conscienceless Marable was, he must have been able to read the angry faces of the men by whom he was surrounded and it is likely that then, if ever, the truth came from his lips; yet, in the account of the murder that he then gave there was no suggestion of the presence at the murder of a white man.” There was a suggestion of the white man then, and that the Dispatch should deny it is beyond the realms of reason. Capt. Frank W. Cunningham, Major Derbyshire, the troops, the judge, the jury testify to the fact that Solomon Marable did make a statement at Lunenburg C. H. concerning "the presence at the murder of a white man." It says: "At that crisis in his life Marable accused nobody but himself and the three women. And this account he repeated to the trial-judge and jury in Lunenburg." This is already answered as well as the following: "The 'white-man story' seems to have been an afterthought. We know of no reason for discrediting Marable's first story and accepting his last one.” And again: "Not a single circumstance with which the public is acquainted sustains the latter, while many sustain the former. If the editor of the Dispatch will call on the counsel for the women and read the impartial report furnished by one of the best detectives in the employ of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, he will become convinced, whether he is willing to admit the truth of the conviction or not. The women are innocent. Marable, with his dying breath has so declared it and the evidence bear out his statements. The following does not require a reply embracing as it does a reflection upon the authorities of Prince Edward County: "Marable's last extended statement, made on the eve before his execution (and reiterated in brief on the scaffold,) was given in the presence of the trial-judge and other officers of the Prince Edward County Court; and, had they been impressed with its truth, we cannot but believe they would have telegraphed the Governor to delay the execution until further investigation could be made." It seems to be oblivious of the fact that the people to do the arresting live in Lunenburg County, and not in Prince Edward where this case was sent for trial. And again: "That they did not do so, we may take as proof positive of their utter disbelief in the story implicating Mr. Thompson; and their conviction that Marable was not only guilty of a cold blooded murder, but of a cold-blooded purpose to fix the crime upon an innocent man." Now here is a journal discrediting the statement of a dying man and failing to recommend even the arrest of the white man whom he accuses of the murder, and at the same time accepting as true the assertions of the same man, known to have been made under coercion, and urging the execution of innocent people whom he declared from the gallows to be innocent of the crime of which they had been convicted. Strange reasoning this! Why is not Thompson arrested? Why is he not allowed to prove his alibi in a court of law? Echo answers, why? Location Upper Left Quadrant Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context July.docx Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <i>Richmond Planet</i> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1896-07-11 Title A name given to the resource A Doubting Thomas Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Student Name Cord Fox Summary A Judge declares that three women who were wrongly accused of murder are not to be delivered to the Sheriff in Lunenburg County. Item Type Article Image No URL https://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=RP18951116.1.2&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- Topic Crime and Justice Times Repeated Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound His Honor, B. R. Wellford, Judge of the Circuit Court is too well known to need any extended notice here. His action in issuing to Hon. George D. Wise and Judge H. W. Flournoy a writ of habeas corpus made returnable Wednesday, Nov. 13, and restraining the City Sergeant from delivering the prisoners to the sheriff of Lunenburg County and instructing the last named officer not to receive them was in the unalloyed interest of humanity. To have carried Mary Abernathy twenty miles across the country in wagons would have in all probability resulted in premature birth and have caused her death, without speaking of the fright to which she would have been subjected. Moreover, to have carried them without military escort would have been followed by lynchings. It was then purely in the interest of the higher guarantees of the constitution that Judge Wellford issued this writ. It is becoming all the more manifest that there are men this commonwealth, white men, who are conscientiously carrying out their oaths of office, even though their own prejudices are called into question. They love justice and admire fair play. Realizing that the machinery of the law was never intended to operate in promoting the perpetration of felonious intentions, they never hesitate when they can to respond to a citizen’s cry of distress, and find a remedy in the labyrinth confines of the recesses of the law. Judge Wellford has taken high ground and won golden encomiums from Virginians everywhere. Lynch-law must go! Location Lower Left Quadrant Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 18951116-A Fearless Judge-Fox Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <i>Richmond Planet</i> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1895-11-16 Title A name given to the resource A Fearless Judge Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Student Name Brian Schrott Summary A young African American girl is raped by a white man and her relatives turn him over to the authorities. Item Type Article Image No URL https://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=RP18970109.1.1&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- Topic Crime and Justice Times Repeated Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound Chula, Amelia Co., Dec. 28, 1896 A case of rape occurred about a half mile from my residence, Christmas day about night. A white man, Richard Booker by name, brutally ravished a little Negro girl, tearing most of her clothes from her and otherwise mutilating her person in accomplishing his dastardly purpose. The brother, uncle and some friends of the girl went to his home after it was told by the girl and he then and there admitted that he was guilty begging them to spare his life. This girl is between 11 and 12 years of age Booker was sent on to the Grand Jury, and for safe-keeping is now in Richmond jail. The negroes are much wrought up, and only cooler heads prevent the most warlike from wreaking summary vengeance on the brute Location Lower Left Quadrant Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 18970109- A Fiendish Crime Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <i>Richmond Planet</i> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1897-01-09 Title A name given to the resource A Fiendish Crime Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Student Name Elias Sturim Summary A white man who had hired a black man as his assistant is “given a brutal beating” by a mob of white men. Item Type Article Image No URL https://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=RP18990826&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- Topic Crime and Justice Times Repeated Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound White Postmaster Scandalously Treated Employed Colored Assistant Editor W. C. Crum, of the Florida Republicans, was brutally beaten by White-Caps at Peck last night. He is postmaster at that place, and has been going out there attending to mail at night and returning to the city in the morning. Some weeks ago he appointed Dan Morrison, a colored man, his assistant, so that the office could have a man in charge all the time. Morrison was made to give up the office by a committee of citizens, who are unknown, and Mr. Crum had to go out and attend to the office himself. Held Up By A Mob. Last night, after he had completed his work, he started to a house he owned a short distance away, where he sleeps when at Peck. He was help up on the road by a mob of masked men, with guns who made him dismount. He was tied with a rope, hand and foot, and given a brutal beating. He also sustained severe bruises about the head and shoulders from kicks administered by the mob. After they had finished beating him, they cut off the whiskers from one side of his face and applied carbolic acid to the deep gashes on his naked flesh, made by the whipping. Mr. Crum does not know who attacked him. The mob threatened to kill him if he ever appointed another colored assistant there. He has closed the office and will deliver no mail to the Peckites, and his resignation has been accepted at Washington. Location Lower Right Quadrant Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context A Fiendish Crime Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <i>Richmond Planet</i> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1899-08-26 Title A name given to the resource A Fiendish Crime Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Student Name Elias Sturim Summary A white man who had hired a black man as his assistant is “given a brutal beating” by a mob of white men. Item Type Article Image No URL https://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=RP18990826&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- Topic Crime and Justice Times Repeated Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound White Postmaster Scandalously Treated Employed Colored Assistant Editor W. C. Crum, of the Florida Republicans, was brutally beaten by White-Caps at Peck last night. He is postmaster at that place, and has been going out there attending to mail at night and returning to the city in the morning. Some weeks ago he appointed Dan Morrison, a colored man, his assistant, so that the office could have a man in charge all the time. Morrison was made to give up the office by a committee of citizens, who are unknown, and Mr. Crum had to go out and attend to the office himself. Held Up By A Mob. Last night, after he had completed his work, he started to a house he owned a short distance away, where he sleeps when at Peck. He was help up on the road by a mob of masked men, with guns who made him dismount. He was tied with a rope, hand and foot, and given a brutal beating. He also sustained severe bruises about the head and shoulders from kicks administered by the mob. After they had finished beating him, they cut off the whiskers from one side of his face and applied carbolic acid to the deep gashes on his naked flesh, made by the whipping. Mr. Crum does not know who attacked him. The mob threatened to kill him if he ever appointed another colored assistant there. He has closed the office and will deliver no mail to the Peckites, and his resignation has been accepted at Washington. Location Lower Right Quadrant Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context A Fiendish Crime Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <i>Richmond Planet</i> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1899-08-26 Title A name given to the resource A Fiendish Crime Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Student Name Cali Hughes Summary A gun misfires as the result of an accident, or perhaps a lovers’ quarrel, and leaves a teenage girl dead. Item Type Article Image No URL https://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=RP18980205&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- Topic Crime and Justice Times Repeated Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound Longview, Va., February 1—Special—At Gay Mill yesterday Ed. Page shot and instantly killed India Walker, both colored. Magistrate George M. Crumpler, examined into the matter and dismissed the case as accidental homicide, the young woman was about sixteen years of age and engaged in a game of dominoes with a young man to who she was shortly to have been married. Page entered the room and she asked him to let her see his gun. He pointed the gun at her under the impression, he says, there was no charge in it. The gun fired, the load entering her head and her brains were scattered on the clothes of her lover at her side. To-day, the colored people at the mill and in the community are much agitated over the matter and it is alleged by some of them that Page was himself smitten with the young woman; that some unpleasantness had occurred between them; that during the day and night before, he was cross and sullen and there is some suspicion that he shot in her in a fit of jealousy. Location Lower Left Quadrant Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context A Girl Shot to Death: Her Slayer Exonerated Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <i>Richmond Planet</i> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1898-02-05 Title A name given to the resource A Girl Shot to Death: Her Slayer Exonerated Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Student Name Brian Schrott Summary Paul Davis, a black man, is acquitted of the alleged crime of raping a girl under the age of consent. Item Type Article Image No URL https://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=RP18971113.1.1&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- Topic Crime and Justice Times Repeated Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound Paul Davis, the colored youth charged with raping Cora Twitchell, a 15-year-old white girl, she being under the age of consent, was called in the Henrico County Court, Monday, November 8th and a new trial granted By Judge Wickham. Thereupon Commonwealth’s Attorney Conway R. Sands entered a [illegible] School-Children’s Fondness. This is one of the most remarkable cases in the criminal annals of Virginia. Paul and Cora lived in the same neighborhood, attended different school buildings, but, were often seen going down the road to a point, where their paths would necessarily lead in different directions. Wiser heads shook their heads gravely, and the attention of the Twitchell family was called to the intimacy. Cora would send notes to Paul, and when he did not answer them would come to the house where he was staying and remain there for hours. Loved Him Dearly. These notices as produced at the trial were of a most loving character. Her infatuation for the colored youth was the most pronounced kind. Paul was employed for many months at the Twitchell’s farm. He slept upstairs, and had to pass through the bed-room in which Mr. and Mrs. Carlos A. Twitchell themselves and daughters slept. For some cause, he left the place, but Cora was a frequent visitor to the place where he lived. It was discovered shortly afterwards that everything was not all right with Cora. An investigation of the matter revealed the truth. Charged with the Crime. Twitchell called on Paul and charged him with the offense. He carried him to the Henrico County Courthouse in this city and gave him up to the officers. A warrant, charging him with rape was sworn out. Twitchell testified then that his daughter was fourteen years of age. Changed the Age. Later, upon being advised that the age of consent was fourteen years, he swore out another warrant charging Paul Davis with [illegible] knowing a female under the age of consent. This time he swore that his daughter was thirteen years of age. This made it look dark for Davis, for under that construction of the law, Paul could be hanged. When the prisoner was led from the Henrico County Jail for trial, Twitchell, standing in the door-way, drew a revolver, and fired at him pointblank. The bullet entering the abdomen and to all appearance being a fatal wound. In the Same Jail. Twitchell was disarmed, and for weeks spent his time in the same jail in which Paul Davis was incarcerated. It was several months before Davis was arraigned for trial. Twitchell swore that his daughter was born April 19, 1883, and the alleged family records were produced to prove this fact. In the meantime, a child had been born to Cora Twitchell during the month of March, 1897. Testimony was adduced to prove that it was of colored percentage. Cora testified that Paul was the father. A Nine Years Sentence. Davis was convicted and sentenced to nine years in the Virginia Penitentiary. Many persons called at the Planet Office concerning the case, and Squire George W. Thomas, counsel for Davis visited the editor requesting that he would assist in securing the necessary information from Buffalo, in order to prove that Cora Twitchell was born a year earlier than was claimed at the trial. He stated that in those cities a record of births was kept and that this information would free Paul Davis. That Grievous Charge. He was charged with knowing a female under the age of fourteen years. If she were over that age, there would be no case against him and a new trial could be granted. Editor Mitchell agreed to secure the information. He wrote to Mr. F. Z. S. Peregrino of the Buffalo Spectator, asking him to go to the office of Board and Health and secure the information. He sent the certificate, but it was not duly certified, and while good in New York State, was useless to the counsel in this. The bill of $7 there for had been paid, $, for the certificate and the other for the services. The certificate was returned, but was lost in the mails and a duplicate which cost another $1 was secured. Could not Understand. Despite the fact that an extract from the Virginia law was enclosed which required that such certificates shall be certified to by the Judge of and Court of a court of Record should be attached and Mr. Peregrino had entrusted the work to the lawyer, the papers were found again defective, being certified to by a deputy clerk. Mr. Peregrino was prompt in returning the papers, but the attorney there, could not understand the requirements of other states. A bill for $50 was made out and forward to Editor Mitchell. Again, he had to return the papers and again they were not up to the requirements. The Judge Granted the Request. In the meantime, Lawyer Thomas and Editor Mitchell went before the Judge Wickham to asked him to delay the trial. He had decided to settle the question of a new trial, but finally consented so to do. Even after this a further continuance had to be asked for. It was then that Lawyer Thomas decided to send Deputy Clerk T. F. Taylor to Buffalo New York with the papers to have them properly attested. A Trip to Buffalo. An excursion was scheduled for Buffalo, and October 5, 1897, he left for the metropolis. He carried on the officials, who were very [illegible] and gave him all of the information asked for. He found out that the cost of the papers was nominal and regarded the changes of [illegible]. Peregrino’s attorney as exorbitant being more by far than the cost of his trip from Richmond to Buffalo and return. He saw the physician who attended Mrs. Twitchell to her illness, and he testified that Cora Twitchell was delivered April 19, 1882. This corresponded with the record at the board of health Department. The Doctor a Frankness. He said that he had been approached by the Twitchell’s relatives about Cora’s age, but that he could not falsify his books. She was born April 19, 1882, instead of April 18, 1883, as was sworn by C. A. Twitchell and wife. This settled it. A statement duly certified, showing that no child was born to the Twitchell’s April 19, 1883, was also duly attested and the careful deputy clerk returned to Richmond with the result as set forth in the foregoing article. Location Upper Right Quadrant Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 18971113-A Girls Love Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <i>Richmond Planet</i> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1897-11-13 Title A name given to the resource A Girls Love Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Student Name Cord Fox Summary The Supreme Court of Appeals reverses the decision of the Circuit Court to decline to grant a writ of error and a new trial to three women who were wrongly accused of murder. Item Type Article Image No URL https://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=RP18950921.1.2&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- Topic Crime and Justice Times Repeated Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound The action of Judge S. L. Coleman of the Circuit Court in declining to grant a writ of error and a new trial in the cases of Mary Abernathy, Mary and Pokey Barnes, has been promptly followed by a virtual reversal, for a full bench of the Supreme Court of Appeals awarded the writ of error and supersedeas. It has been contended that a case in which the defendants had no counsel and accordingly no exceptions have been made could not be gotten…[Illegible] Messrs. Wise, Flournoy and [Illegible] contended, and in this contention were supported by some of the ablest attorneys in the state, that exceptions were taken only in order that alleged errors in the ruling of the court might appear upon the face of the record. If those alleged errors appeared there any way, no exceptions need to be taken, and the appellate court could take recognition of and pass upon them. So convinced was Judge Coleman that this contention was erroneous that after the presentation of the argument in the case, he did not wait to examine the authorities cited by counsel for the for defense, but began to announce his decision before Mr. Wise had taken his seat. The case is a unique one, ant eh argument adduced as able as any which has been heard in the courts of Virginia. It is needless to say that the counsel for the defense are gratified over the result. They had steadily maintained that they would win and were utterly astounded when the Circuit Judge failed to rise to the dignity of the situation and take cognizance of the record in the case and the law. Location Lower Left Quadrant Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 18950921-A Gratifying Result-Fox Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <i>Richmond Planet</i> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1895-09-21 Title A name given to the resource A Gratifying Result Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Student Name Brian Schrott Summary The Planet describes a rape incident involving an educated white man, and proves to the Dispatch that “crime is not confined to any one race of people.” Item Type Article Image No URL https://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=RP18971002.1.2&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- Topic Crime and Justice Times Repeated Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound The following explains itself: Raleigh, N.C., September 22. – A shocking scandal has just developed in the penitentiary here. Dr. Kirby Smith, the son of the superintendent is charged with a grave offence in connection with two insane women. Arrangements are now in progress to turn all convicts over to the syndicate which offers to maintain the penitentiary without cost to the state. Dr. Smith is white. His offence is the “usual crime.” He is educated, and therefore was in full possession of the facts relative to the nature of the act which he was committing. What has the Richmond Dispatch to say to this? Will it write grave editorials on the subject? Will it designate it as a race crime, or will it claim-like, close its shell and say nothing. Again, we assert it, -crime is not confined to any one race of people. It is an affiliation which all suffer and the crusade should be made against the criminal classes upon broad lines without regard to race or color, politics or religion. Location Lower Left Quadrant Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 18971002-A Grave Offense in North Carolina Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <i>Richmond Planet</i> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1897-10-02 Title A name given to the resource A Grave Offence in North Carolina Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Student Name Elias Sturim Summary A white man is arrested after he assaults a woman, and Mitchell calls for the “Richmond Dispatch and journals of its ilk to condemn the crime.” Item Type Article Image No URL https://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=RP18991007&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- Topic Crime and Justice Times Repeated Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound Joseph Beard (white) attempted to criminally assault the wife of Dr. H. E. Campbell, Wednesday night, at 8 o’clock on the Monticello Road, near Moore’s Creek in the neighborhood of Charlottesville. A lady who was with Mrs. Campbell gave the alarm which brought Dr. Campbell to the scene. The man had to be beaten off. He was arrested and placed in the Charlottesville jail. The preliminary hearing resulted in his being sent on the grand jury. The prisoner pleaded guilty. What are we to do with these lecherous white men who commit these heinous crimes? It is the duty of the Richmond Dispatch and journals of its ilk to condemn the crime and all other white journals who uphold lynchings will proceed to argue against the law having its course. This man, according to their reasoning should be lynched at once. Let any colored or white men undertake the job and see if either the penitentiary or the gibbet will be staring them in the face. Oh, the race and the color make a world of difference in Virginia! Location Upper Left Quadrant Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context A Heinous Crime Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <i>Richmond Planet</i> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1899-10-07 Title A name given to the resource A Heinous Crime