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WHITE "JUSTICE" FOR BLACK MEN.

POLICEMEN'S "PROFESSIONAL ZEAL.'

ALLEGATIONS OF TORTURE BY SOUTH AFRICAN NATIVES.

[UNITED PRESS.]

much I can say to you, gentlenen, and I am afraid it would really not make much difference what I

In the police-court at Cape Town a native was went to six months' imprisonment for stealing two paraffin boxes which the owner said.".

This valued at 8d. A few days before

statement obviously W dis four members of the Wellington forced from him after the previous acquittal and a refusal to have the police force, against whom allegond trial removed from the local tions had been made of brutally district, a course which he had de- ll-treating four natives and colour-munded because be argued in the ed men awaiting trial, were acquit.previous case "justice was not done ted. These and other similar cases and the verdict was dishonest.'* in which the disparity between black and white sentences has been 24 great or even greater have led'

many thinking people in South Afrien to ask "Does the native and

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hands and feet were handcuffed and I was fastened with my fees up to a chain which hung over a beam. My feet were in the air and my an inch from the head about ground. When they found I was breathing heavily and my breath was coming to an end they let me down.. they would leave me for a little while, and when they found I was getting better they would pull me up again. This con- tinued throughout the night.. they did this to make me admit that I did this murder, and in the and I did admit.”

To the Judge the man said, he

made the confession because of the ill-treatment, and because he was afraid the police would kill him before a Judge arrived there.

Judicial Comment..

The Cape Times, in biting: leader on "White Justice," declar ed that the jury having deter coloured man obtain justice?" and mined on an acquittal, carried out many of them have had regretfully their intention in defiance of un- mistakable advice by the Judge that to admit-as General Hertzog would any the saswer is in the the verdict should go against all but one of the accused. The verdiet negative,"

must make every decent-feeling Rarely has this part of Southwhite man shudder for his own. The Judge probably quite cor- Africa beca more stirred than in colour-appalled that his white rectly rejected the native's story the trial of the four police-officers brothers should be so completely and accepted that of the police, but just mentioned. The coloured men carried away by an ignoble pre in doing so he made this significant and natives declared that in a local judice, should be so lost, to all sense remark: I am weil aware of the police-station where they had been of justice, should be of any bise our fact that the police sometimes do ly eloqueat, in pronoung judg treat prisoners somewhat roughly, some money, they were trussed up

ment upon their own warped but making allowance for this and and unmercifully thrashed in order.

minds.

making full allowance for what to extort from them a confession.

"The applause of their fellow-professional zeal will sometimes citizens of Paarl, Wellington, was lead the police to do, T consider all that was needed to add a last the statement by the accused that touch of humilitation and de he was suspended by his feet is a gradation to conduct that leaves an complete fabrication."

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Of the severity of the thrashings there could be no doubt. The

medical evidence was clear that the

men had been thrashed, and thrash

ed brutally with that punishing ugly stain on the record of white South African weapon-a reim-justice in South Africa.”. trip of raw hide. Their bodies were wealed from the severity of their punishment.

Alibi Defence.

Repudiated "Confession," "

But this remarkable case does not stand alone. At the small town of Bethal in the Transvaal this week a native was tried on a charge of murder..

For some time coloured organiza- tions throughout the country have agitated for the abolition of the jury system, but in this last case the trial was conducted by a Judgè with two Assesora.

The coloured man and native may be less prejudiced if his case in leit to a member of the Bench and two magistrates meting sa assessors, but it will be a bad day for the coun- try if the "professional zeal "... of the white police is to have greater consideration by juries than he elementary justice to which 'every man is entitled, be his skin white

The defence of the policemen was that they were not even at the police station at the time,, and a local"jury of white men accepted their alibi and acquitted them. The verdict, of course, had to be accepted, but it is significant-in view of the evidence which was called that counsel for the Crown in summing-up a second case: de clared to the jury. There is not of the erine. He declared:-"My or black,

He was found guilty of killing a native woman and sentenced to death, but before the dread sentence was passed upon him he made very grave allegations against the detec- tive whe arrested him of having forced him to make a confession

Diary of

To-day, (May. 29.)

Mohammedan New Year, Day, Queen's Theatre: "The Idle Rich "

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