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The after trial

By: John Marble  

a few weeks ago, the people of Maycomb met Tom Robinson, a black man accused of raping Mr. Ewell’s daughter Mayella. Atticus, a well-known lawyer, was responsible for protecting this man, and even accused Mr. Ewell of hitting her daughter. In the end of the trial, Tom Robinson was guilty of rape and was sent to jail, like any other black man who would dare to even look at a lady. Tom Robinson, on Monday September 26^th, a few days after the trial, was killed when trying to escape Maycomb county prison. Trying to climb the wall, and almost getting to the other side, he was then penetrated with 17 bullet holes in him body, and died instantly.

“The man was strong; I even started to worry in my head that he would escape”

Says one cop who took part in the chase.

Tom Robinson dead on the ground of the prison

“If he had a good arm, he could have been able to pass us.”

Atticus, the lawyer and friend of Tom Robinson, who had been trying to get him out of jail when Tom was put in, was shocked with this idea and said.

“We had such a good chance, I told him what I thought, but I couldn’t in truth say that we had more than a good chance. I guess Tom was tired of white men’s chances and preferred to take his own.”

It was reported that Atticus went on to Helen Robinson’s house to tell her the news afterwards.

Unfair judges

On Tuesday, September 1^st , 1945, the Maycomb court was presented by Atticus Finch to Tom Robinson. I was also present in that court and I was a bit surprised by the results. Everyone in Maycomb county knows that the Ewell’s can’t be trusted, but even after Atticus great speech about how people should be treated equal, which really moved me, people still made Tom Robinson guilty and he later on causing him to die in jail.

I think that case was unfair, and even if Tom is black, that guilt shouldn’t have been his, and that nasty Ewell got away with it. Tom was convicted by rape of the daughter of Mr. Ewell, Mayella, but the way Atticus had told us about Ewell hitting his daughter, and with Tom Robinson’s side story, had more connections to each other than with Bob Ewell and Mayella’s story. Also how she took a long time to answer Atticus questions made me suspect of her.

This made me blue in the face and made me feel like taking up with John Taylor and making him re-do this case. I think that case was not properly judged, that the judge’s shouldn’t only judge someone by their color. I think that people should go by the law when they are at a case with black people, just like with whites.

           

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Mysterious shadow

By: Steven Bing

It has been told that Mr. Taylor, the judge of the court of Maycomb, had spotted a shadow passing inside his house while he was working. Mr. Taylor told us that he was peacefully reading one of the writings of Bob Taylor at his house while his wife was at the church on the Sunday- night of October. He said he was as still as a mouse and was so concentrated on the book, that when he heard a small scathing noise in his room, he’d had lost where he was.

He told his dog, Ann Taylor, to be quite but the noise was still going on, until he found out that the dog was nowhere to be seen and that the mysterious noise was coming through the rear end of his house.  It was said that after he saw his dog was stuck behind the back porch and putting him down the country, he saw a mysterious shadow passing by through the corner of his house. His wife had said when she came back home, he was still reading his book, but with a shotgun across his lap. We asked a few people of who the shadow might be and this is what Mr. Atticus Finch had to say.

“I don’t know, maybe Bob Ewell cut that screen. I can guess it was him, since I only proved him a liar when he was in court with me, but John made him look like a fool.”

Bob Ewell has also been seen trying to chase Helen Robinson in her way to her new work, and had also been accusing Atticus of getting his job. The people of Maycomb still think he had also been part on this incident with John Taylor.

Bob Ewell’s orbit:

By: Luther Joe

Bob Ewell was known to be hipped on alchahol, who would pay a mint on of his remaining money on beer and to be holed up on the gabling table to feed his family. For Maycomb, the Ewell’s are known not to be trusted and are also very dirty people. He had 8 kids in his little tiny house (in which used to be a negro cabin) with his dirty greasy windshields, located next to the dump. He has to take care of all his sons, sending about one to school every week, and having the rest to work on the house. He had also joined in Mayella (one of his daughters) case with Tom Robinson, in the time when she needed him the most.

Mr. Ewell had died by getting stabbed with a honed down kitchen knife close to the Halloween pageant. Rumor has it, he was chasing two kids, Scout and Jem.  A few days before his death, he was known to lose his job because of his laziness and of blaming the lawyer, Atticus finch, for it. This is what Mayella, his oldest daughter, has to say of him.

“I didn’t mind father. The stuff Mr. Atticus was talking about him would tear me to pieces and make me blue in the face.  He also let me take up gardening and didn’t say a word, and let me plant those flowers next to our house.”

Bob Ewell’s visitation will be held on Tuesday, October 16^th, 1934 from 10p.m. to 10: 30p.m. at the Maycomb church, including a small speech from his son Burris for his dad.

 

Letter to editor:

Dear editor.

About a week ago, I was present in the Halloween pageant and I loved it! It was all great fun and I and my family had a great time, and people kept coming in droves. All the booths and prizes caused the time to be playing tricks at me, and the house of horrors walked over my little son’s grave, but it put me out like a light since it almost didn’t scare me at all.

Yet the best part of the pagent was yet to come. That little show about Maycomb that Mrs. Merriwether put on was really nice, but the part in which Jean Louise fell asleep in her costume and Mrs. Merriwether kept calling pork made me slap my knees with laughter.  Mrs. Merriwether was really mad at Jean Louise, but I couldn’t care less, since the pagent was a huge success, and all I wanted for this letter is for everyone to know about it.

Sincerely

Beatrice Lucifer