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RITCHIE ORDERS JMOB
riO Tilt.
LEE TRIAL DEFERRED
DEMANDS PROSECUTION OF SALISBURY LYNCHERS
Governor Declares State Will Back Every Effort
To Punish Citizens Who Hanged
Matthew Williams
APPEALS COURT TO REVIEW ORPHAN JONES PROCEDURE
Circuit Judges Send Higher Tribunal Ades' Plea For
Change Of Venue To Baltimore—Negro
Promised Protection
Governor Ritchie last night ordered W. Preston Lane, Jr., Attorney-General of Maryland, to assist Wicomico county authorities in the apprehension and "vigorous prosecution" of members of the mob that less than twenty-four hours before lynched and burned a wounded Negro murderer, Matth; Williams, at Salisbury.
At the same time the Governor announced that if Yuel Lee, the Negro accused of the murder of a family of four at Taylors-ville, is tried in Dorchester county, he will see that the Negro and his attorney, Bernard Ades, of Baltimore, are protected. He said he would provide protection for them whether or not the county authorities request it.
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