Tuscaloosa Gangs Lynch Third Negro

x Highlight LYNCH THIRD NEGRO E as or I. L. D. Reneus Demand for Punish- 8 ment Officers Who Murdered 3 – Pippen and Harden. 2 of c at Tuscaloosa, Ala, Sept. 25-Gun- t n men took Dennis Cross, Negro, from E t- his home at two o’clock Sunday ly morning, to the grounds of the exclu- s. sive Tuscaloosa Country club, and I shot him dead. Cross, Sheriff R. L. at Shamblin said, was under bond on is charges preferred by a white woman. ne He refused to say what the nature of er the charge was, except that it was in not assault. Although formal charges of murder 1- have been laid against the five offl- 1 e cials implicated directly in the lynch- – ing of Pippen and Harden by the In- “- ternational Labor Defense, no action d. has been taken against them, and the .s grand jury “investigating” the lynch- st ing has recessed indefinitely. Government Takes Cognizance The demand was made in wires to S U. S. Attorney-General Homer S. t : Cummings, President Roosevelt, and r Governor B. M. Miller of Alabama, S Y and Attorney eneral Thomas E. o Knight of Alabama. The 1. L. D. h has charged three deputy sheriffs of K n Tuscaloosa with shooting the Negroes d while in their charge, and Judge of Henry B. Foster and Sheriff Cham- e a blin with arranging and directing the d 3. lynching of Dan Pappen, Jr., and A. c T. Harden. These charges were filed o it two weeks ago with the recipients of h today’s wires, and with the special 1 grand jury called to investigate the lynching. The federal government has been forced to take cognizance 1 of the I. L. D. charges filed with the m 8 U. S. Attorney-General. o x Highlight LYNCH THIRD NEGRO E as or I. L. D. Reneus Demand for Punish- 8 ment Officers Who Murdered 3 – Pippen and Harden. 2 of c at Tuscaloosa, Ala, Sept. 25-Gun- t n men took Dennis Cross, Negro, from E t- his home at two o’clock Sunday ly morning, to the grounds of the exclu- s. sive Tuscaloosa Country club, and I shot him dead. Cross, Sheriff R. L. at Shamblin said, was under bond on is charges preferred by a white woman. ne He refused to say what the nature of er the charge was, except that it was in not assault. Although formal charges of murder 1- have been laid against the five offl- 1 e cials implicated directly in the lynch- – ing of Pippen and Harden by the In- “- ternational Labor Defense, no action d. has been taken against them, and the .s grand jury “investigating” the lynch- st ing has recessed indefinitely. Government Takes Cognizance The demand was made in wires to S U. S. Attorney-General Homer S. t : Cummings, President Roosevelt, and r Governor B. M. Miller of Alabama, S Y and Attorney eneral Thomas E. o Knight of Alabama. The 1. L. D. h has charged three deputy sheriffs of K n Tuscaloosa with shooting the Negroes d while in their charge, and Judge of Henry B. Foster and Sheriff Cham- e a blin with arranging and directing the d 3. lynching of Dan Pappen, Jr., and A. c T. Harden. These charges were filed o it two weeks ago with the recipients of h today’s wires, and with the special 1 grand jury called to investigate the lynching. The federal government has been forced to take cognizance 1 of the I. L. D. charges filed with the m 8 U. S. Attorney-General. o