It's especially acute now with the frustration and resentment that is spilling out into the street.". Finley eventually pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was sentenced to four years. [31], On July 7, 2020, a group of about 20which included descendants of Scott Arthur (18361937) and Violet Arthur (ne Charles; 18601951), parents of the Arthur brothers, and descendants of the Hodgeswhile donning face masks and maintaining social distancing for protection against COVID-19, met for the first time in a remembrance ceremony at the Red River Valley Veterans Memorial in Paris. Winds ENE at 5 to 10 mph. All were acquitted. Two men arrested in apartment shooting Two men were arrested earlier this month for shooting a man in the face at Washington Square Apartments in Paris, according to court records. High 68F. Another child attempted to run away when the shooting began and was shot in the back. "I have noticed a shift in perspectives from people I would previously consider to be liberal and sympathetic to issues of racial inequalities in policing," Wagstaff says, "because they believe the rallying cry for accountability has gone too far.". By organizing activist fashion events with other Ukrainian designers over the last year, including pop ups in Paris, Berlin, Munich and Milan, she has raised about 50,000 euros ($53,000) that has gone toward buying medicine, as well as to supporting Kyivs biggest childrens hospital and the armed forces. ULASAN. The person who murdered Charity Lees child wasnt a serial killer or known criminal. They next went to the home of Hall Greenwood, who came to meet them. Robert J. McNamara is a history expert and former magazine journalist. Autopsy results are expected back next week. Community activist Brenda Cherry said authorities have not seriously considered the possibility this was a hate crime. Hinds and B.F. Jobe, proprietors. After the sexual assault, they were given bacon, molasses, and a sack of flour and told to leave the building. Free from the ropes, he fell to the platform and began to roll about while engulfed in flames. But it fits a pattern of injustice shown to Black Americans throughout the 19th century, from the days of systemic enslavement to the broken promises following the Civil War, to the collapse of Reconstruction, to the legalization of Jim Crow in the Supreme Court case of Plessy v. Ferguson. WebWhite mob from Paris, Texas. The lynching of Henry Smith followed that pattern. It was a case he expected to win. According to the Dallas Morning News of July 8, 1920, Pine Bluff Street was "the general dividing line between the two sections. He was convicted and sentenced to be hanged. Sheeny gray bubble material became a parachute-like shawl with contrasting bib that looked regal. In August 2007, Paris Lee Bennett, who was 13 at the time, admitted to stabbing his sister, Ella Lee Bennett, in February of that year. [32][33], On the Arthur family side, attendees included Janese Walton-Roberts, 47, grandniece of Herman and Ervie Arthur, and greatgranddaughter of Scott and Violet Arthurby way of Mary Lee Arthur (19051977) (her grandmother and one of Herman and Arvie's seven sisters) and Mary Lue Sims (19322001) (her mother) (nephew and nieces of Herman and Ervie Arthur). The babe was wounded, but not killed. For Lamar County, Irving and Herman Arthur are memorialized as lynching victims. The Arthur brothers (n Charles)stepsons of Scott Arthur, a sharecropper tenant of the Hodges' farmwere accused of fatally shooting, on July 2, 1920, the landlord, John Henry Hodges (18591920) and his son, William M. Hodges (18861920), during a dispute. They inquired where his wife was, informing him that she was a witch and that they had come to kill her. African Americans Irving "Ervie" Arthur (19031920) and his brother Herman Arthur (18921920), a World War I veteran, were lynchedburned aliveat the Lamar County Fairgrounds in Paris, Texas, on July 6, 1920. The other victim was Billy Charles Carey, 32, of Garland. Alex Wong/Getty Images So Smith, who was rumored to be mentally retarded, may have wanted to get revenge. The family photo was arranged by the Chicago Defender, who originally published it September 4, 1920, with the following caption: Facing starvation, Scott Arthur and his family, driven from home like dogs, girls assaulted, sons burned at the stake by Paris, TX mob, arrive in Chicago without money and homeless! He fired a double-barreled shotgun at Amos Morris, Mrs. Lucy Greenwood and Mrs. Viney Coleman in April, 1903, killing them. He added: "Any comparison to Jasper and James Byrd is preposterous.". Police hold a perimeter near the White House as demonstrators gather to protest police brutality in the morning hours of May 31 in Washington, D.C. Chance of rain 50%. National Childrens Dental Health Month is celebrated every February. "[34], According to the Chicago Tribune, as of 2020 there are three living grandchildren of Scott and Violet Arthurby way of their mother, Mary Lee Arthur: Rufus Arthur Sims, 86, of Chicago's West Side; Dorothy Williams, 93, of Country Club Hills, a Chicago suburb, and Annie Violet Sims, 84, of Atlanta. Hotema told witnesses that he was neither drunk nor crazy, but was engaged in the Lords work. "This probably reflects, to some extent, the plaintiff's lawyers and the defense lawyer's projections about what's likely to happen if the case proceeds to trial and there is a verdict," he says. The sermon, prepared so zealously, did not have a noticeable effect, and Hotema was dejected. The district attorney, Gary Young, was once the court-appointed lawyer for Finley, who was charged with murder in 2003. Most of the newspaper descriptions of the scene are disturbing. His wife and son live at Cole Springs, in the Choctaw nation, and the body of the noted old Indian will be taken to that place for interment. [19], With respect to the assaults on the three sisters, in 2018, historian Hollie A. Teague wrote, "It is difficult to imagine a scenario in which some of those twenty White men were not jailers, police officers, or sheriff deputies. One man paralyzed, one man tased and criminally charged, one officer pulling the trigger. [34], Although Walton-Roberts grew up in Chicago she now lives in Killeen, Texas. I employed the attorneys not that I am trying to defeat and evade the law of justice, but that they might assist me to reveal the very cause or what caused my fall to the minds of the people so that they may pass judgment intelligently in the light of their own minds, and hoped to have my trial at coming court, but Col. Hodges said, the case will not be tried for the court will be in session but for a short time and I would like very much to get out on bond till next court time, that is in the spring but I know not when I will ever got out. To some, it sounded like the Byrd case, in which a black man in the East Texas town of Jasper, about 200 miles south of Paris, was chained by the ankles to the back of a pickup by three white supremacists and dragged for three miles. "Those people, I love on my juries. But my reading of this case was that as a result of Black Lives Matter, the backlash has pushed them towards a pro-police stance that they previously didn't take.". The extreme natureof Smith's killing, and acelebratory parade that preceded it, received attention which included an extensive front-page account in the New York Times. 83, No. I appreciate it because her letter was something that needed to happen. When the Arthurs attempted to move from the farm, permanently, three days later, the Hodges appeared again, this time fired a gun towards the family as they were packing a borrowed truck. A little son of Solomon Hotema was among the number. McNamara, Robert. The killing of Smith was carefully orchestrated. "This is a group of guys who had black friends and white friends," said Allan Hubbard, a spokesman for the Lamar County district attorney's office. At about 1:45 .mw-parser-output span.smallcaps{font-variant:small-caps}.mw-parser-output span.smallcaps-smaller{font-size:85%}pm, the captors left with their prisoners for the Lamar County jail in Paris. Paris Police responded to a shooting in the 1300 block of W. 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May He sustain you in discharging your duties and in addition thereto will reveal cause of my condition, first will say, (tho compassed with infirmity) that I as a man worship the true and infinite God both in private as well as in public believing all things which are written in the law and in the prophets, believing the forgiveness of sins in Christ Jesus, and believing the resurrection of the dead and the reward of the just and the unjust, and have always respected the law of the land, knowing that the law of all nations were based upon the moral law laid down in the Bible, and have always conscience void of offencetoward God and toward men, known my manner of life from my youth among my own nation to be a defender and a supporter for the right cause, but as the scriptures saith, For men also knoweth not his time; as the fishes that are taken in an evil net; and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time when it falleth suddenly upon them therefore I know not the hour wherein I stand before the world charged with a grievous complaint, as a treason, and to be tried by Gods chosen Nation, a peculiar people, an Holy Nation and who know not the groaning of my people and a heavy burden of the diabolical oppression, and who do not believe in the cause of which I have been offended and stumble over, tho the Bible speaks of it from lid to lid, and the history of sixteen and seventeen centuries gives an account of our ancestors stumbled over in the similar cause and that in different nations and more than that a Professor of Muskogee school visited me in Aug. 1899 at Atoka jail said, the three Muskogee ladies stumbled over in the similar cause and were jailed, and on Sept. 6th, 1900, I received a letter from oneof the Missionaries in Arizona, stating that the Indians out there practiced the very similar things and many of their lives were made miserable through it, therefore it is the evident facts that evil doers are still practiced among the different nations on earth, and it is the greatest evil or treason ever sprung upon the human race, and are untimely end innocent lives without respect of mercy, they are treasons yet they are beyond the reach of the law of justice or another word they stand under the shadow of the law and doing all these evils upon the innocent livesthis practice is not a late thing and not only existed in the neighborhood where I stumbled, but as far as I can hear they are in every location and they would bush-whacked them now and then, yet they are increasing. [21] There was also a claim that the Arthur brothers likely acted in self-defense following two armed provocations, both by William Hodges (accompanied by his father), who allegedly, during the second incident, fired the first gunshots. A truck stuck and killed a Paris woman Sunday morning. Gunman shot grandmother at home, then drove to an, This page was last edited on 28 February 2023, at 05:12. The coat had a vintage feel with little wrinkles and was worn on a bare chest. Black activists and the victim's mother are calling last month's killing of 24-year-old Brandon McClelland a racist attack. WebPARIS (AP) Geo-political activism met tuxedo jackets at Paris Fashion Week as a vocal designer from Ukraine put on a show that paid homage to her country her team of over 20 Low 61F. Three settlements topped $1 million. 1. Shawl with contrasting bib that looked regal him that she was a and. 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