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Mistrial. Into the courtroom at Charlotte, N. C. last fortnight was wheeled a ghoulish plaster-of-paris effigy clad in a blood-caked, bullet-ridden police uniform. Its face, beneath a broad-brimmed black hat, was a ghastly image of Police Chief Orville F. Aderholt, for whose murder during labor troubles in the Gastonia textile mills, 16 strikers and strike-organizers were on trial (TIME, Sept. 9). Effectiveall too effectivewas this theatrical gesture of the prosecution. Juryman Joseph G. Campbell, an "eccentric" newsvendor, blanched and stared popeyed. That night he begged the deputy sheriff for a pistol...
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