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MORE ABOUTATTACK TRIALS♦—Continued From Page One—♦of the accused men.The motion, and perhaps others, must be disposed of Monday, but If denied. Circuit Judge James E. Horton la expected immediately to order a Jury impaneled. A second motion for a change of venue also is anticipated.The prosecution has announcedit is ready to proceed with the trial.The seven negroes, whose death sentences on convictions of assaulting two white girls aboard a freight train were set aside by the United States supreme court, remained In the county jail to 1 mingham. where they were taken from Kilby prison at Montgomery• ft# days ago. ; • 'They will be brought here by automobile before Monday morning. but intense secrecy enshrouded these plans.Denied Harming Girls The attacks for which the negroes were convicted allegedly occurred when the two girls, mill workers, were hoboing back totheir homes in Huntsville, Ala.,after an unsuccessful effort to obtain work in Chattanooga, Tenn. The negroes, in their first trial, denied harming the girls.Victoria Price, star witness for the state, is here ready, according to the prosecUtion» to repeat her story that she was attacked by the seven negroes, but her companion, Ruby Bates, is missing. She dropped out of sight several weeks ago and all efforts to locate her have failed. Her mother told officers she disappeared with a man unknown to the mother.
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The Sunday Times
Mobile, Alabama, US
Sun, Mar 26, 1933
Page 9
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