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A Friday Murder
(Continued from page 5)
James Sharp had no weapon. He
had no glass jar in his hand with
which to strike the officer But pre
suming that he did have, here was
a young, trained athlete with skill,
muscular power, a blackjack, a revol
ver pitted against an unarmed aged
Negro, and he was so scared of him
that he had to kill him. The mute
body of James Sharp tells its own
story.
He was shot three times. Those
tell-tale bullet wounds upon that
ebony-hued body speak out in cla
rion tones. On the left side of his
head is a wound about three-eighths
of an inch deep where the bullet
plowed its way. Through the right
nipple is another hole through which
another bullet plowed its way. To
the left on his breast is still an
other hole, through which another
bullet plowed its way, penetrating
James Sharp's heart, while he
pleaded with his slayer, “Don't shoot
me no morel” These wounds were
made so quickly that the reports
from that deadly police revolver
sounded like one shot, and those who
heard them were of the opinion that
there were only two shots fired,
when as a matter of fact three bul
lets had ended the career of this old
man inside of the humble precincts
of his own home.
Not a single drop of whiskey was
found upon the premises, not a sin
gle weapon of any kind was found in
any part of this retreat for the low
ly. A sick brother, who has been
serving the Master from time to
time by preaching in a country
church, saw his brother slain before
his eyes by a man armed •with the
authority of the law and who stood
sworn to protect the law-abiding.
When Willie Branch, the 17-year-old
youth, came forward and testified
that he was the one being chased
and that he was hiding under a table
in the yard when Burroughs rushed
into the doorway of James Sharp’s
house, that completed the case
against Officer Walter B. Bur
roughs.
Under the law, no officer could
enter James Sharp’s house without
the permission of James Sharp or
without a search warrant authorizing
such a procedure, for James Sharp
W’as not either suspected or charged
with any crime. We have repeated
ly insisted that there is enough law
in Virginia to give us our rights and
we have had upon the bench of the
Supreme Court of Appeals of this
State jurists able and just enough
to accord them to us. Those %ve can
not secure in this State upon the
present showing we have decided to
go without. Let us see:
Article I, Constitution of \ irginia,
16 That all men are by nature equal
ly free and independent, and have
certain inherent rights, of which,
when they enter into a state of so
ciety, they cannot, by any compact,
deprive or divest their posterity,
namely, the enjoyment of Lie .and
liberty, with the means of acquiring
and possessing property and pur
suing and obtaining happiness and
safety.
When Policeman Walter B. Bur
roughs shot down in cold blood old
man James Sharp while he pleaded
for his life, he violated this part of!
the fundamental guarantees of the
Constitution of this State.
Article I, section 8, reads:
That no man shall be deprived of
his life, or his liberty, except by the
law of the land, or the judgment of
his peers.
Policeman Walter B. Burroughs
says that James Sharp struck him on]
the head with a glass jar while he|
(Burroughs) was violating the Con-]
stitution of Virginia by entering
Sharp’s home without a warrant,
causing a wound so slight that it re
quires a close inspection to see any
mark there, the skin not even being
broken, and for that he took Sharp’s
life, while the law specifically pro
vides how such offenses shall be pun
ished, either by the Police Court
Justice, John L. Ingram, or by a
jury of white men in the Hustings
Court of this city.
We say white men for the reason
that only citizens of that color pass
upon such cases, and Burroughs
would not trust the punishment of
James Sharp for the alleged assault
ing of him to white men of Bur
roughs color. Let us look at and
read another section from the Con
stitution of Virginia: ' j
Article I, section 10, reads:
That general warrants, whereby
an officer or messenger may be com
manded to search suspected places
without evidence of a fact commit
ted, or to seize any person or per
sons not named, or whose offense
is not particularly described and sup
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ported by evidence, are grievous and
oppressive, and ought not to be
granted.
When Policeman Walter B. Bur
roughs entered James Sharp s hum
ble home, he violated this part of
the Constitution of Virginia and he
was not acting as an officer of the
law, but upon his own motion as an
individual and he became a tres
passer, liable to expulsion by the oc
cupant of the house that he invaded.
But poor old man James Sharp did
not repel him, for he was too busy
begging for his life. Burroughs had
butt his head against the upper part
of the door-frame when he dived into
that rear room and he was angry.
Those three strands of his hair on
the door frame, as testified to in the
evidence, settled that. He proceed
ed to lynch old man James Sharp in
violation of the law. He admittedly
killed him as an officer of the law.
What does the Constitution say
about this? By what process alone
can death be meted in this State?
It cannot be done with a knife. It
cannot be done with a rope. It can
not be done with a gun or with a
revolver. It cannot be done with
poison.
It must be done with the electric
chair.
. Burroughs did not have an elec
tric chair in his possession that night.
He had a blackjack and a revolver
land he used first the weapon that
jhe should have used last, if he had
I been permitted to use any at all.
! He had his fists. He did not use
jthem. He had a blackjack. There
is no evidence but his own word
I that he used that. The dead body
I discloses no wound made by any
;
such weapon.
He had a revolver and he used
that and killed a man in a manner
that the law says a man shall not be
killed in this State.
Article I, section 8, reads:
That no man shall be deprived of
his life, or liberty, except by the
law of the land, or the judgment of
his peers. _ 1
That in all criminal prosecutions
a man hath a right to demand the
cause and nature of his accusation,
to be confronted with the accusers
and witnesses, to call for evidence
in his favor, and to a speedy trial
I by an impartial jury of his vicinage,
without whose unanimous consent he
cannot be found guilty.
James Sharp is beyond human aid
and suffering, but his grandfather
less eight cnildren and his fatherless
daughter are in dire straits, Walter
B. Burroug^kaathe result of your
hasty actigi^jB^Jfe believe in God
and the saving ^grace of Jesus
Christ? How could you punish all
these innocents and step aside from
your official duties to be charged
officially with murder? Did you
mean to kill him? The warrant says,
you did not. You said that you did. J
You told Officer R. B. Sterling that
you intended to kill him to save your
life. I
You said you killed him in self
defense. You are afraid to die and
you consider a blow from one of
God’s creatures of dark complexion a
justification to take a human life.
The alleged blow was a mere scratch.
The public wishes to know how a
blow from a glass jar in the hands
of James Sharp, delivered some,
eight or more feet away from the
door, could drive three strands of <
your sandy colored hair into the door (
jamb, through which opening you
had just entered? You may be able
to sleep, but the memory of that
fateful night in that humble Negro’s
home will haunt you to your grave.
We hope that the churches of this
city will conduct prayer services for
this erring member of the “bootleg
squad.” Officer Burroughs’ own
statement of the case, these citations
of the law conclude this summary of
one of the most outrageous assaults
upon our fundamental laws and the
destruction of one of the most sa
cred traditions of this Commonwealth
that it has ever been eur duty to
record.
I call it murder,—
There you hev it plain and flat;
I don’t want to go no fui'der
Than my Testament for that.
—Ibid, Biglow Papers.
Thou wear a lion’s hide! doff it for
shame,
And hang a calf’s-skin on those re
creant limbs.
—Shakespeare.
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