When Evil Lived in Laurel by Curtis Wilkie

Author:Curtis Wilkie [Wilkie, Curtis]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-05-04T00:00:00+00:00

SESSUM CLAIMED Moore demanded that he “come clean” and showed him “a stack of papers almost a foot high” that contained evidence of a “clear-cut case” against Sessum despite Little Preacher’s professions of innocence. Moore refused to let him call a lawyer.

“About this time,” according to Sessum,

the biggest of the U.S. marshals called me a “dirty little S.O.B.” and hit me in the cheek with a roundhouse right. This blow knocked me down, and my head hit the wall and dazed me momentarily. I weigh only 137 lbs. and my body is not large enough to absorb blows from a 200 lb. man. This violence took place in front of Mr. Roy Moore, who stood, watched and approved of the beating I was receiving. I told them this beating was illegal, and the big marshal picked me up again, cursed me some more and knocked me down again with a left to the jaw. This time, when I went down, I fell onto the chair in such a way that a slat in the back of the chair hit my back and injured my spine. I could not get up. Because of the shock and pain, I was almost unconscious.

Sessum said that after he revived from the blows, the marshal set upon him again with a blackjack, pounding his legs and shoulders and shouting at him, “Talk, you little S.O.B., or I’ll beat you to death.”

Moore watched the beating quietly, according to Sessum, who described his pain as “becoming more terrible every minute.” He said he gasped at Moore that the attack was “completely illegal,” only to be told by the FBI leader, “I don’t see anything.”

There was a pause in the confrontation while Moore and the marshal went into an adjoining room, leaving Sessum in the hands of another officer, who talked in a soothing voice and told him he wanted to “help,” yet refused a plea for a lawyer. Sessum could hear typing in the adjacent room. Later Moore and the marshal returned, handing him a “confession.” When he refused to sign the document, it provoked another beating by the marshal, he said. Sessum complained that he had not been able to read the paper.

“OK, read it then,” he said he was told by the marshal. “But I am going to kill you if you don’t sign it.”

“I read Roy Moore’s ‘confession,’ ” Sessum claimed in his affidavit, “and it said a lot of lies about where I had come to them voluntarily in order to ‘ease my conscience.’ It went on to say that I had been in the bunch of men who had burned the Dahmer Nigger’s house and named some other men as my ‘accomplices’ who I have never heard of.”

Sessum said he was unwilling to sign the “false confession” in the face of “pain and torture” and “every kind of duress which their evil minds could design.” He asked Moore for a court trial.

“This is your trial,” the marshal was said to have replied, and struck him again in front of Moore.

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