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TELL OF iUOOETT’SRELATIONS WITH MlMrs Foster Describes For First Time How HeAnd Miss Shonio Lived at Her House\rwpyHYDE PARK, Yt, Dec 17— Relations to investigate the election riots betweenbetween Arthur Mudgett, middle-agedlumberman, and Miss Amy Shonio, th«negroes and whites at Ocoee, \* la. last month, to determine whether any Fed*19-year old .Johnson girl, for whose rnur- j oral statutes were violated.der Mudgett is on trial here, were described for the first time today in the testimony of Mrs Harriet Foster, keeper jThis was learned today after Henry F. White, assistant secretary of theNational Association for the Advance-of the boarding house where Mudgett Vi;)rei* * eople, had called toand Miss Shonio lived.Tiia courtroom was again crowded with villagers and country folk, who had driven miles over the roads to be present at this murder trial, the first in 60 years in this county. Many brought their lunches and the Courthouse at noon recess took on the appearance of. agrange picnic.Franklin If Dewart, the civil lt;ngim « r who made sketches of the seen*- of the murder, was cross-examined when court reopened. States Attorney Tracy was also under cross-examination again for an hour. An effort was made to draw from him more details regarding the tilings he found in searching Miss Sho-nio’s room on the any the murdered girl's body was found, but the defense apparently obtained nothing important from the Witness.TO INVESTIGATERIOTS IN FLORIDAWASHINGTON, Dec 17 -The Federal district attorney for Florida, has been instructed by the Department of Justiceask that action be taken.lie presented evidence designed to show that more than JO negroes had been ki 1 Heel in the riots and that negro voters in the South had been terrorized and asked that the department take action. He has just returned from Ocoee where he said lie had gathered the evidence presented to the department.First accounts of the trouble at Ocoee, a village in Orange Oounty, were that live negroes had been burned to death and another lynched after two white men had been killed.It was sad that the trouble followed the attlt; mpt of a negro to vote after he had been denied that right by electionofficials on the ground that, he had not paid his poll tax.Mr White tolrl Department of Justice officials that he had been informed by white inhabitants of Ocoee that betweenand :15 negroes were killed and thatthe trouble arose when Muse Norman, a well-to-do negro, attempted to vote. The registration books at Orlando, the . onnly scat, Mr \V h ' e said, showed thatNorman had paid his poll tax and hadregistered.II
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Boston Evening Globe
Boston, Massachusetts, US
Fri, Dec 17, 1920
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