| Show PLENTY OF TRIALS here is a legal incident remarkable enough anywhere but especially noteworthy orthy because of its having happened in the south and really quite startling in view or of the fact that the accused is a negro it shows that the sometimes tardy course of the law to is gaining ground on the swifter meth of judge lynch and that southern lawyers are not a whit behind their confreres contreres con freres elsewhere in supplying en tangle ments of justice in the meshes of legal complications and delays the case is that of douglas white colored of montgomery alabama who killed a woman some five years ago for that crime through mistrials mis trials reversals and so on he has enjoyed six trials at the first he was sentenced to death at the second to life imprisonment at the third to 50 years imprisonment at the fourth to 20 years imprisonment at the next to 10 years and now toe he has been acquitted altogether meantime the woman is as dead as she was when her slayer was sentenced to suffer on the gallows for his crime |
