Bertram Cates: Guilty Of Teaching Middle School

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Bertram Cates, a 24 year old science teacher, is found guilty of teaching middle school students Charles Darwin’s Origin of species. Cates was defended by Henry Drummond and prosecuting attorney Matthew Harrison Brady defended the Christians of “Heavenly Hillsboro”
Testimonies include Howard Blair, a student in Cates’ science class, told the court his teacher taught his class that “Man was sort of evoluted. From the ‘Old World Monkeys,’” Rachel Brown, the daughter of Hillsboro’s resident reverend , Rev. Brown who told us the story of the Stebbins boy that died and, “At the funeral, my father said that Tommy's soul couldn't pass on to Heaven, ” and prosecuting attorney Matthew Harrison Brady.
Cates was fined with only $100. It’s no secret that