Negro Tom Robinson Trial Summary

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In the morning only three days after the strongly watched trial including the Negro being referred to, indicted Negro Tom Robinson endeavored to escape amid his activity period.

Having experienced a troublesome trial, liable Tom Robinson endeavored to get himself out in another way.

It was amid the detainees' activity period. As indicated by onlooker records, Robinson kept running at the wall and attempted to get over it. Said a jail gatekeeper who declined to be named: "He simply broke into a visually impaired raving charge at the wall and began climbing once again."

The jail gatekeepers attempted to panic Robinson with notice shots. At the point when that did not work, they began to shoot at Robinson.

Then again, Robinson was moving

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