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After an architect and contractor give out faulty bills, a trial is held in Pennsylvania, and discrepancies are found on both sides of the case, making it difficult to place guilt.

The Cincinnati Foraker Constitutional League commends Senator Foraker for “his fearless stand for the enforcement of the Constitution” and denounces President Roosevelt’s “attacks on corporations.”

Auditor John P. Goss reports the number of, and cost of maintaining, white and black prisoners in Virginia jails; the differences in cost make evident that “many white folks are not receiving the kind of punishment to which they are entitled.”

During an Easter mass in Rome, a few church-goers commit a “crime” against the religion and the pope, horrifying others in attendance.

John Haskins of Independence, Missouri, conveys through a poem the unjust and powerful effects of the Brownsville case.

After shooting a black man out of hatred, Congressman Heflin faces jail time, lawsuits, and public embarrassment.

Throughout multiple Pennsylvania churches, there is a spread of “Black Hand” letters that request money by threatening death.

Congressman Thomas J. Heflin of Alabama “becomes a lawbreaker and a lawmaker” after shooting and attempting to kill a black man, and ironically, but accidentally, a white man as well.

A man suffers the consequences after drowning his wife whom he claimed to “love better than anyone else.”

An African American man is stabbed at a bar and taken to the hospital where two surgeons are able to perform a rare, but successful surgery on his heart.