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LLCA'I NR, Ala., July 25—lt;/P)— Alabama's speedy disposition of the long lought Scottsboro mass attack case brought a foieoast today that there will be no further litigation over it and. tnat pending appeals will bo dropped.hive of the nine negioes accused of raping two white women, Victoria Price and Ruby Baus, aboard a lreight train during a hoboing trip in 1931 are under sentence now and four are free.A high source, declining to be quoted by name, predicted, as a result today, no additional Scottsboro trials will be hold in Alabama or in any other court.” IThe end to the legal battle which I aroused international interest came swiftly in Morgan county courtroom yesterday when six cases were giv.-n final disposition. There was no demonstration.Charlie Weems, one of the accused, who wa« on trial at the time, was I convicted and sentenced to 75 years iImprisonment. A moment later, a 4 1 second negro, Czle Powell, was called J in and entered a plea of guilty to as- | sault with intent to murder in the • stabbing of an officer in an asserted j escape attempt in 1936. Ho was given a 20 year prison sentence and the rape charge against him was dropped..Charges against four other defend-! ants— Olen Montgomery, Willie Rob-! ertsou. Eugene William and R‘y 1 Wright—were then dropped by the state and they walked out of Morgan county Jail to leave swiftly with iheir attorney, Samuel E. Leibowitz of NewYork.Of the three remaining negroes, Clarence Noriis, is under death sentence, Hey wood Patterson faces a 75-year prison term and. Andy Wright 99, yeacs. ▼ON THE JOIl—OR ELSEPI; LADELPHIA—(/»’)— PatrolmanRalpn Chary refused to abandon ship even after his ship abandoned him. Chary, an amateur sailor, swam two miles to the Jersey coast towing his catboat which capsized. Then he drove 60 miles to his home in time to walk a West Philadelphia beat for eight hours.
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Somerset Daily American
Somerset, Pennsylvania, US
Mon, Jul 26, 1937
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