He Slew the Dreamer by William Bradford Huie

Author:William Bradford Huie [Huie, William Bradford]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, United States, 20th Century, African American & Black, Social Science, Discrimination, True Crime, Murder, General
ISBN: 9781496820648
Google: G_Z1DwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Published: 2018-11-13T22:30:17+00:00

3–31–68

$10.50

4–7

10.50

Underneath these figures he wrote the words: “could do several different kinds of work.”

The $10.50 is the room rent, and the dates are when it would be due. So evidently, when Ray made these notes, he already had paid the $10.50 on March 24 and had not yet paid the $10.50 which would be due on March 31. He, of course, never paid the $10.50 on April 7. These notes provide additional evidence that Ray, on March 24, had no firm idea how long he would be in Atlanta. The notes indicate, however, as does his having notified the locksmithing school to mail assignments to him in Atlanta, that he thought he might be in Atlanta a month or more. The notes further indicate that Ray doubted that he would get any more money from his criminal contact because he was considering the possibility of trying to work at some job. Most important: these notes indicate that ten days before the murder, and after he had begun stalking Dr. King, Ray had received no considerable sum of money and he did not anticipate receiving any such sum.

There is a widespread, persistent belief that Ray had “lots of money” at the time of and after the murder of Dr. King. The truth is that he had very little money; and if he had had as much as $2,000 after the murder, he probably would have reached Africa and might have escaped arrest and trial.

Ray’s writing that on the evening of March 23 he and his criminal contact “went to a restaurant on Peachtree Street as I hadn’t eaten since breakfast” provides an example of how he worked with me and his lawyers over a period of eight months. In his first account of his activities in Atlanta, he did not mention any such meal in any restaurant. Then, in September 1968, when his first lawyer, Arthur Hanes, was permitted to examine the physical evidence collected by the state against Ray, Mr. Hanes noticed a restaurant check or bill. This bill gives no information other than that on an unspecified date food was served to two guests at a well-known Atlanta restaurant called Mammy’s Shanty, which is on Peachtree Street about five long blocks from the rooming house where Ray stayed. The bill is for $1.85 for London broil. When Ray was told about this bit of physical evidence, he said he knew nothing of it. But months later, after he had fired Mr. Hanes and engaged Percy Foreman, Ray wrote another account of his Atlanta activities and included the line about him and Raoul going “to a restaurant on Peachtree Street as I hadn’t eaten since breakfast.”

For a criminal, this is one advantage of having one lawyer for a while, then firing the first lawyer and engaging a second. The criminal can use the first lawyer to inform him of the evidence against him, then he can fire the first lawyer and tell his second lawyer a story to fit the evidence reported to him by the first lawyer.

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