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rhursday, April 23, 1942.Castor Oil Case Is Before JudgeVia Files Civil Ights Action Against Two Nicholas MenDenial of civil rights to nine members of a religious sect, who identified themselves as Jehovah’s Witnesses, is charged against Bert Stewart, Riehwood chief of police, and Martin Louis Catlett, Nicholas county deputy sheriff, in an information filed yesterday in district federal court by L. R. Via, district ! attorney.| Judge Ben Moore docketed the case for trial May 4,Last week a grand jury investigating charges that the two men conspired to violate the civil rights statute by mistreating the nine returned a not true bill.The officials arp accused of depriving the Jehovah’s Witnesses of their rights and immunities under the fourteenth amendment when they asked for police protection in June of 1940.They also arc accused of having bound C. A. Cecil, Charles Stanley Jones, Harry Carlton Stull and Glen Harding Legg, forced them to drink large doses of castor oil and compelled them to leave town under threats of further violence.Other group members are Walter Ernest Stull, Thomas Howard Stull, John Wesley Leedy, Robert Wendell Shawver and Arthur James Stull.According to government officials, the nine claim their liberties were infringed upon when they attempted to circulate a petition in Riehwood to be presented to the governor of Ohio asking that the ; sect be allowed to hold its national j convention at the Ohio State fair-i grounds.
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Charleston Gazette
Charleston, West Virginia, US
Thu, Apr 23, 1942
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