Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 251, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 February 1931 — Page 14

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MARION MOB LYNCHING CASE GOES TO JURY Death Penalty Waived in Final Arguments of Lennon Trial. '■>’ V United Press MARION, Ind., Feb. 27,-Fate of Charles Lennon, on trial In connection with the lynching of two Negroes here last Aug. 7, was placed in the hands of a Grant circuit court jury shortly before noon today. The death penalty was waived by Merle N. Wall, deputy attorneygeneral, in his closing arguments for the state, in which he asked conviction under a statute providing a penalty of two to twenty-one years. The defense waived closing arguments. In his argument. Wall pointed out that Lennon had been identified positively by six witnessvses as a member of the mob which removed the Negroes from the jail and hanged them in the courthouse yard, and that two witnesses testified they heard him urging mob leaders to break down the jail doors. Varied Stories Told Conflicting testimony was given by defense witnesses Thursday. Lennon was described as a member of the crowd which was pushed into a position near the entrance of the jail as a citizen who had urged the mob to desist from trying to force an entrance to the jail. Witnesses also testified that he left the vicinity of the jail a few minutes after the mob obtained custody of the Negroes, and that he did not participate in the hangings. Defense witnesses included the defendant's wife. Mrs. Mary Lennon; his brother-in-law. Paul Thompson, and his mother-in-law, Mrs. Ella Thompson. Deny Part in Lynching Paul Riddle another defense witness, and Thompson testified that they u r ere with Lennon throughout the early part of the evening and he did not actively participate in the mob. Their stories were only shaken in minor details by Merl Wall and Earl Stroup, deputy attorneys-gen-eral in charge of the prosecution. The courtroom has remained crowded throughout the trial of the ease. Many Negroes have attended. Other Cases in Balance Failure to convict Lennon, it is expected, would result in dismissal of affidavits, all filed by Attorney General James M. Ogden, against six other defendants, including former Sheriff Jacob Campbell, who is charged with neglect of his official duties as a result of the lynching. The first trial ended in acquittal of Robert Beshire. Details of the treatment received by the two Negroes after the mob obtained custody of them and before they were hanged, were again related from the stand by witneses for the state. Many of those witnesses, chiefly police officers and sheriff officials, who were on duty at the jail, were unable to identify Lennon as a member of the mob. Those who did declared that he was more than fifteen or twenty feet from the jail entrance.

ASKS INDIANA TAKE PART IN CELEBRATION Virginia Lieutenant Governor Urges Official Visit to Yorktown. Lieutenant-Governor James G. Price of Virginia addressed members ,of the general assembly in joint session in the senate today in the interest of the sesqui-centennial celebration of the battle of Yorktown, to be held in October. President Hoover will be guest speaker at the celebration Oct. 19, and Price asked that Indiana be officially represented, as he had done earlier in a visit to the office of Governor Harry G. Leslie. Outlining the importance to America of the surrender of Cornwallis to Washington at Yorktown, Price pointed out that the celebration has national significance. Purpose of the celebration is to exalt the principles of American liberty made possible at Yorktown,” he declared.

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BANDIT SLAIN, FOUR WOUNDED BY 2SHERIFFS Deputies, ‘Tipped Off,’ Lay in Ambush, Open Fire on Gunmen. By United Press GRANTS, N. M., Feb. 27.—One bandit was killed and four others wounded seriously when a band of six walked Thursday night into an ambush laid by two sheriffs who had been warned secretly an attempt would be made to hold up the Bond Sargent store. Sheriffs Gallegos of Valencia county and Crockett of McKinley county laid their ajnbush of deputies three days ago, after getting the “tip.” The bandits entered shortly after dusk and ordered G. G. Gunderson, manager, to give them the company’s money. The hidden deputies answered with a volley of shots that recked the building. The bandits returned the fire, but the battle was short and one-sided with them in the open and the deputies hidden. A bandit named Rucker was killed instantly. Another was wounded critically and the wounds of three others were serious. One escaped. None of the deputies was hurt.

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Lives to Eat By United Press PITTSFIELD, 111., Feb. 27. Ray Wittekind, who is serving a term in the county jail here, "sends out each morning and ‘gets twelve fried eggs and a loaf of bread. These plus the regular jail fare, serve him for one meal, breakfast.

GROCERY STORE PICKETERS HELD Agitators Protest Against Hiring White Clerks. Picketing of a Standard grocery, 1419 East Twenty-fifth street by alleged red agitators protesting employment of white clerks in the store, today resulted in arrest of a man and two women by police. Forty or fifty picketers, mostly Negroes, carrying banners, sought to dissuade Negro patrons from entering the store until white clerks were displaced by Negroes, police said. Those arrested and held in city prison on vagrancy charges are James Hallahan, 27, of 933 South Senate avenue; Mrs. Marie Hicks., 20, of 17 North Tacoma street, and Mrs. Lula Griffin, 42, of 1619 Yandes street, Negro. Hallahan rooms with Theodore Luesse, much-arrested leader of unemployed demonstrations, police said.

STORM SWEEPS FIJI ISLANDS WITHDISASTER Days May Pass Before All Details of Tragedy Are Known. By United Press SUVA, Fiji Islands, Feb. 27. Days and possibly weeks may elapse before full details are known of the disastrous hurricane which swept : across the Fiji islands, leaving in its wake a toll of at least 100 dead and heavy damage to buildings and crops. The hurricane drove a great wall of water before it and flooded huge areas in the Lautoka, Ba and Rewa districts. Practically every building in Lautoka was damaged and many were demolished. The roof of a hospital was torn off, hampering relief work among the injured and homeless. The hurricane began the night !of Feb. 21, disrupting cor.imunicaI tions so that word of the disaster j was kept from the outside world, j Little yet is known of the devastation wrought in the remote sections of the 2,300 islands. Three-tenths of the earnings of I a Belgian convict are given to him |on the expiration of his term of i imprisonment.

COPS PROVE AMBITIONS Almost Half of Boston Police Take Sergeants’ Examination By United Press BOSTON, Feb. 27.—Boston policemen seem to be extraordinarily ambitious. When a Civil Service test was given for promotion to sergeancy, 1,160 of the city’s 2,400 officers tqok the examination.

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