Excerpts From Scotts Burrow Trials• Judge Horton’s instructions to the Jury, “Take

the evidence, sift it out , and find the truths and untruths and render your verdict. It will not be easy to keep your minds solely on the evidence. Much prejudice has crept into it has come not only from far away, but from here at home as well.”

• Ory Dobbins, an eye witness said, “I saw one of the girls setting up on the end of the gon fixing to jump off.”

• Dallas Ramsey was asked, “The day or afternoon of the account referred to you say you saw those girls about six o’ clock in the morning in the jungles?” He answered, “Yes sir.”

More Excerpts • Victoria price, an alleged rape victim claimed, “I

never was in Chattanooga but one time in my life. . . I never was at any negro’s house in my life.”

• Ruby Bates, another alleged rape victim was asked, “You mean Lester Carter and Gilly left the gondola in which you were in and went into the next gondola where the fight was between the white boys and the negros?” She replied, “Yes sir.”