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klansiuan tells of murderMONTGOMERY, Ala (UPI) Nineteen years ago, Raymond C. Britt says, he stood on a narrow bridge over the Alabama River with four other Ku Klux Klansmen and watched a 25-year-old blackman plead for his life Willie Edwards Jr was “crying, sobbing and begging, but it did him no good Accused of some unspecified insult to a white woman, he climbed to the railing of the bridge and, with a pistol at his head, leaped into the darkness.The klansmen drove awaylaughing and joking, Brittsays, and three months laterwEdwards’ bodv was foundWBritt no longer finds it funny, I lived with this for 19 years,he testified Wednesdav When they asked me, I told thetruth. The 44-year-old mobile home salesman’s testimony was enough for County Court Judge Sai Tavlor to order the case of the other three Klansmen takento a grand jury, Prosecutorssaid they would send the*murder charges to the jury MondaywBritt, who turned state’s evidence, was not charged Thethree men charged with the murder of Edwards on Jan. 23, 1*157. are William Sonny Kyle Livingston. 38, a bail bondsman, James York, 73, a retired city sanitation worker; and Henry Alexander, 48, a plumbing contractor, all of Montgomery,An investigator for the attorney general’s office, Tom Ward, said he reopened the case last Dec. 31 when Livingston asked him if heremembered that nigger truckdriver’’ who had jumped off a bridge He quoted Livingston as boasting 1 was there.Ironically, Edwards, a grocery truck driver, turned out %■not to be the man the Klansmen were seekingLee Williams, a driver for the same supermarket chain, testified that a third driver didn't report for work that night and Edwards was sent on the trip, the first time Edwards had ever driven a company truck Williams said he had heard the driver Edwards replaced that night was involved with a white woman on his route.Benefit Gospel ConcertHIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUMSATURDAY,Music and singing by: COMMANDERS from 'VincennesBOVENSCIIKN FAMILY (Linton)GOSPEL NOTES” lt;Linton)NO ADMISSION CHARGE Offering will be taken for the Guatamala Relief Fund
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Linton Daily Citizen
Linton, Indiana, US
Fri, Feb 27, 1976
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