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5c A COPY$2.50 A YEARMAY PROBE DEMONSTRATIONSGrand Jury IndictsThreeNegroesGrovelandCase(Photo Page 2)A special Grand Jury hastily called by Circuit Judge Truman G.Futch, late Wednesday returned an indictment for rape against three ofthe Negroes charged with last Saturday's crime against a young Lakecounty couple. It will meet again to consider charges against a fourth.The three will stand trial m Lake county on the charge of rape only,although Sheriff Willis V. McCall, who has spent night and day on the:ase, requested an indictment be brought for kidnaping, bodily harm andrape. ♦...........................................•1....................■ •—;—---pBtrving on Uma-Negro—the first ever to serve on a Lake county Grand Jury.Named in the indictment were Charlie Greenlee, Samuel Shepherd and Walter Irvin, who are being hel^ at Raifrod state prison until they are called to trial. jThat trial, State’s Attorney Jesse Hunter indicated, will be held as speedily as possible to bring to aChrissenger, Jr., Leesburg; Ralph M. Darden, Astor; D. E. Rogers. Lisbon; D. D. Kelleher, Yahala; Albert M. Johnson, Clermont; W. D. Sanders, Okahumpka; Carl E. Henderson, Ferndale.The jury recessed at 9 p.m. Wednesday to visit the scene of thecrime. They met again at 10 p.m. State's Auomey Hunter pointed380 -J! ,—PDPipDM802 registered Negro voters. In drawing names for the jury, he saidclose the mass demonstrations in ?i‘Uhai_.Ulke, ?°uHty l*|a®He indicated too that the specialGrand J^ywould a proportionate number of Negroesvest.ption, of the unlawfulness that chosen-but the trouble hashas brought the eyes .of the nation becn (lt;J get lhe Negroto serve afteron the little communi y o ove- have been summoned, heland. There is more to this special -jjgjsession than can be told,” he said. 1The Court House was teeming I Called as witnesses at the hear- j with activity this afternoon asing were: Curtis Howard, Leesburg newsmen gathered from all partswho found the 17 year old bride of j 0f ^e country to “cover” the sen-14 months after she had been ab- j sational “race conflict” trial. Cam-ducted by the four Negroes and eramen were 0n hand from newsher husband slugged; Deputy Sheriffs James Yates, Mount Dora, and LeRoy Campbell, Leesburg, arrest-officers; | Dr. Jeoffrey veld, Leesburg, who examined the land and Bay Lakes section girl who declared she had been j fjre razed Negro houses andraped by the four Negroes; and! people. Harry McDonald, Groveland, who | One of arrested Greenlee.In his charge to the jury Judge Truman G. Futch said that 12 of the jurors must agree on an indictment t before a true bill could be returned.The ’ Negro, Mark DuBose ofreels and television companies, ready to complete their picture (story of the wind up of the affair, j after having photographed Grove-itsM M them asked Hunter if there was any possibility that the actual trial of the three accused Negroes would be held out of the county.“That trial is going to be held here,” Hunter replied vehemently.Umatilla, chosen from the panel of j “And if any one opens his mouth 36, was a mild-mannered, short jn that court room who shouldn’t, and poorly dressed man. He sat in he will go to jail.” the top left corner of the jury box, his eyes wide as he glued his atten- 1tion to the judge. Ht held back to Qtnslirwait until the others filed to the v▼VCiO ullKlYj jury chambers, his hat in his hands, j _ *The other jurors selected are: A.] V 11*1111111 I' AAfK’B. Merrit, Okahumpka, foreman; f Ctv/lIUIII 1 UvfVIo J. L. Deitzen, Grand Island; R. E. j ^ ^Maxwell, Umatilla; L. K. Casson,I I w|lf|V*f|f)f'V '■'PR15111 Lewis J. Donifacino, Fruitland Park; | *TUCU UIIl J 1 JdllJ. T. Bridges, Groveland; W. A.Hunter, Eustis; J. F. Blank, Lees- Official announcement of the burg; Paul N. Little, Grand Island; j Vacuum Foods Corporation “Grow-Milton Apple, Lady Lake; H. B.; «TS Guaranty” plan to put a “floor”
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Mount Dora Topic
Mount Dora, Florida, US
Thu, Jul 21, 1949
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