Statesville Daily
In Winton-Salem on one and the same day a negro “bumped off” a man of her race, alleging tha the attacked her; and a young white woman entered the office of a lawyer and broke the butt end of a whip on his head, struck him with her fist and biffed him in the face with a paper weight. The ground for the latter attack was lack of appreciation of the lawyer’s remarks when his assailant was a witness in court. At the rate at which the female of the species appears to be traveling, it is not the poor defenseless woman that will be in need of the special protection of the law and of the men, but something will have to be done to protect the males. The Winston-Salem woman got a year in jail, but that was because she was so indiscreet as to attack a lawyer. Numerous people who have been so unfortunate as to appear in court as witnesses and litigants have felt the urge at time to kill a few lawyers and would have felt perfectly justified in so doing. But they were restrained for one or more reasons. Either because they didn’t feel physically fit at the time, or because they realized the attorney had the upper hand. His remarks are “privileges” and he has the court with him, no matter if he is in the wrong. The average judge, being a lawyer and having a fellow feeling is likely to do things to a layman who attacks a lawyer for his court utterances. If the Winston-Salem woman had beat up a layman she might have got off with a fine or without punishment. But she will know better hereafter than to try to take it out on a lawyer.
From the front page of the North Wilkesboro Hustler, July 16, 1924
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