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IfSENSATIONAL TERN TAKEN TO» IIAY IN HALLIE MAJAKNE MUR-P HER CASE.I Will Irwin, well known negro baT‘|pf] her, was acquitted this morning atjul -1 the preliminary hearing before Judge£ ”* ^ /- • ’ . v • a *v. ... fV-I F. M. Hamilton of the Albany inferior AI ^ court, and Judge Frank Davis of theI I I *1 Decatur inferior court, of the charge 1 I of killing Sallie Malone near Fair-j I view on thl Flint roatf taat Sunday Imorning. r miChas. Eyster. attorney for the state, m, y after privately examining some of the m witnesses, announced to the court that of '3 I no evidence could be secured against tu i Irwin and asked the court to nolle « prosR the case. Judge Davis prompt- p, tt ly released the prisoner.It in understood that Will Irwin tt t'ould prove that he did not leave bisr\ Pr - 4 r* *'■ ■ 4* jrt *lt;■- S ’’ *« barber /hop and the city until afterI* the crime had been committed. Ten-1 in tt nis Tidwell was the cotnisel for the tliq defense. * / 8lt;ir The preliminary of Sadie Malone. I Si m implicated in the killing, and In th° slt; room at the time of the tragedy, war si rf postponed until Thursday, July 5. be-1 tl yf cause gif the witnesses were not pres* 1 tcic ^ - *Id Pink Malone, the husband of the I elt; It. deceased woman, was lodged in Jail tl to 1 this morning charged with the mur- et!t der. j j-*e- It is estimated that there was ovef h1 ’ 00 persons present at the prellmln- 1 jy ary hearing this morning.T 1 liHI Later in the day Belle Shelby, a ne- li n, gro woman, w’as arrested in connec- fc n- tion with the crime and placed In the a county Jail.
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Albany Decatur Daily
Albany, Alabama, US
Thu, Jun 28, 1917
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