Demoralizing terror stalks Notting Hill; the irritants of yesterday promise more violence tomorrow; extremist proposals exacerbate the tensions between Jamaicans and whites
On the night of the Feast of Pentecost a handful of youths stopped Kelso Cochrane, a young Negro, in a Notting Hill Street and demanded money. They got none. Cochrane was stabbed through the heart and left on the pavement. It was said that up to twenty witnesses saw the affray. Nobody came to the succor of the dying man, and only one witness spoke. Mrs. Okine, white wife of a Negro boxer, described what she had seen and heard and admitted that she had done nothing to help. It was not inhumanity but demoralizing terror that made her bitterly regret she had even spoken. Her house at the time of writing, is under night and day guard.
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