Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1923-05-08 | Page 10 | Negroes' Champion Loses $50,000 Suit

NEGROES CHAMPION LOSES SUIT LEXI Va May The 8 S suit suLt of ot RObert T r Kerlin aSking 50 0 damages of ot the Virginia loll Military II ta r institute because of dig dig- dis dismissal missal from th faculty follo utterances in connection with the race riot was waa dismissed today la In circuit court court Colonel Colonel K at present In in- in instructor In at the state tat normal school at West et Chester Pa Pa- was wa dismissed after aner he had written an open let let- letor let letter ter tH or to the o of s asking clemency for six lx ix negroes o of C that state otate who s sentenced to death for tor or the tho part they W r said sala ali to havo o taken in the thC I race raco riots In his letter Hit written ten In lV J 1921 1321 1 I Professor Kerlin said laid In the execution of thoKO men mena mena mena a ra race rao o Is suffering crucifixion I entreat you to take tuko the matter Into your privet private 1 chamber and Rl 6 It Itan Itan itan an houis ernest earnest consideration as toro the thC Jud Judge ho he ask ask- asked od aak-od ed eu the Iho governor to ro re I W the ease caso and to take into consideration the ho peonage system which tho ho rioters were tT tr tring to endS end Soon after the Io public Professor Kerlin waa wis b before rore tho ho board of directors And maintained d his right to defend th the I negroes slid and to express opinions freely