1. Wells uses the reporting to make her case by building on the facts that were stated in the reporting. Wells took the facts and the facts only and formed her own case from them.
2. The lynching of Sam Wilkes occurred on April 23, 1899.
3. It took Wells and her Chicago group three weeks to prepare this account for the press.
4. According to the detective, most whites in Newman did not care what motive Sam Wilkes had for murder. All that seemed to matter to the whites is that a “nigger” killed a white man. Other whites in Newman believed the motive was that the young “niggers” did not know their places, while some believed the motive was due to the influence of the northern ‘niggers” had on the southern blacks.
5. The detective determined that the claims of assault on Mrs. Cranford by Sam Wilkes were false. The detective backs his response with the evidence that Sam Wilkes never confessed to the assault during the lynching, like the other reports claim he did. The detective also supports his claim with the evidence that Mrs. Cranford was likely unconscious during the time in which she told E.D. Sharkey that Sam Wilkes assaulted her.
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The detective claims that John Haas, W.A. Hemphill, and Clark Howell were all complicit in the lynching of Sam Wilkes.
7. The detective bases his accounts about the lynching of Rev. Strickland and the shooting of the five black men on the facts that he gathered, while newspaper accounts are more filled with raw emotion. The detective is direct about his findings and leaves his personal opinion out of the accounts. The newspaper accounts are more filled with detail about the lynchings and shooting as if they are bragging about the situation. The newspaper accounts also seem as if they are trying to justify the
2. The lynching of Sam Wilkes occurred on April 23, 1899.
3. It took Wells and her Chicago group three weeks to prepare this account for the press.
4. According to the detective, most whites in Newman did not care what motive Sam Wilkes had for murder. All that seemed to matter to the whites is that a “nigger” killed a white man. Other whites in Newman believed the motive was that the young “niggers” did not know their places, while some believed the motive was due to the influence of the northern ‘niggers” had on the southern blacks.
5. The detective determined that the claims of assault on Mrs. Cranford by Sam Wilkes were false. The detective backs his response with the evidence that Sam Wilkes never confessed to the assault during the lynching, like the other reports claim he did. The detective also supports his claim with the evidence that Mrs. Cranford was likely unconscious during the time in which she told E.D. Sharkey that Sam Wilkes assaulted her.
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The detective claims that John Haas, W.A. Hemphill, and Clark Howell were all complicit in the lynching of Sam Wilkes.
7. The detective bases his accounts about the lynching of Rev. Strickland and the shooting of the five black men on the facts that he gathered, while newspaper accounts are more filled with raw emotion. The detective is direct about his findings and leaves his personal opinion out of the accounts. The newspaper accounts are more filled with detail about the lynchings and shooting as if they are bragging about the situation. The newspaper accounts also seem as if they are trying to justify the