AMERICAN CONSCIENCE AND AMAZING TRIAL
Received Fridav,. 8.10 p.m. NEW YORK, May 22. "This was no day €or : justiee, ' ' declares the Tribune in a leader on the result of the Greenville (Soutli Garolina) lyncliing trial. " It was an extraordinary trial, , vvliite men being asked to eonviet white men for lynch ing a Negro and this largely on the basis of det'endants' own statements This was a severe test in the South There can be little doubt that the jur.y was folloWing the unwritten law. But the case of tlie Greenville taxi-drivers is ii«t ended. Gonscience is assembling. Mob law w'as at least brought to trial. " The New York Times says editorially: "There has been a victory for the law even thou'gh Willie Earle's slay'ers won 't be. punished for what they did. A precedbnt has been set„ Lynching mobs may now know that they don 't bask in universal approval even in their own disgraced communi ties and with suffieient courage a sotithern lynching case jury will eonviet. ' '
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Chronicle (Levin), 24 May 1947, Page 5
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