ACQUITTAL OF SHERIFF

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28661, 11 August 1958, Page 9

ACQUITTAL OF SHERIFF

Negfo Protests In Mississippi WATER VALLEY (Mississippi), August 8. An all-white jury yesterday acquitted a Mississippi sheriff of a charge of beating a negro prisoner to death. The dead man’s wife announced that she would leave the tiny community of Water Valley for good because she was scared. The jury, made up of farmers and mechanics, deliberated 28 minutes before finding Yalobusha County Sheriff, J. G. Treloar, - innocent of manslaughter in the death of Woodrow Wilson Daniels, a deliveryman. While the jury was out, Judge Curtis Swango warned the Courtroom crowd: “There must be absolutely no demonstrations when the verdict is read.” Judge Swango also presided over the trial in 1955 of two white men accused of killing Emmett Till, a young negro who was alleged to have whistled at a white woman. The men were acquitted. The verdict was greeted by groans from a gallery of negroes who had observed the proceedings which lasted four days. In Jackson, Mississippi, the .State chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People issued a statement saying the acquittal “should indicate to negroes in Mississippi that they should expect no justice in Mississippi Courts*