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MANY QALLED IN SHORE PROBE OF LYNCHING
Prominent Business Men
And Police Officials To
Be Questioned
ATTORNEY-GENERAL TO ASSIST IN CASE
"Outside Organization's"
Activities In Outrage
Also To Be Studied
[By the Associated Press]
Salisbury, Md., March 14 — State, county and city police officials, members of the Peninsula General Hospital staff, prominent business men and industrial leaders of the three Southern counties of the Eastern Shore were on the list of 102 witnesses summoned before the Wicomico county grand jury investigating the lynching of Matthew Williams.
The list was made public today by the State's Attorney's office. On it were the Sheriff and two of his deputies of Wicomico county, the superintendent, physicians and nurses of the hospital, Salisbury chief of police, city solicitor, a judge of the Orphans' Court, two former Mayors and four newspaper men. Sixteen Negroes also were called.
Charged By Judge Bailey
The jury, assembled today to begin Its investigation, was charged by Judge Joseph L. Bailey.
Not only did the jurist ask for a probe into the lynching of the Negro, who had shot and killed Daniel J. Elliott, lumberman, but he also charged the jury to go into the events preceding the hanging and the activities of an "outside organization" on the Eastern Shore.
Lane To Aid In Case
William Preston Lane, Jr., Attorney-General, will come here tomorrow to assist the State's Attorney. They also will be assisted by Deputy Attorney-General Anderson, who, with detectives from Baltimore, have conducted an investigation for several weeks, during which they made stenographic reports of statements made by scores of persons questioned.
In his charge Judge Bailey did not say the "outside organization" was the International Labor Defense League, which has figured in other Eastern Shore criminal cases, notably in the defense of Euel Lee, convicted cf murder.
Refers To "Outside" Influence
Frequently during his discourse the Jurist referred to "outside interference" in court procedure and "false accusations" made against officials and residents of the Eastern Shore preceding the Elliott murder and lynching.
The jurist referred to the International Labor Defense League without naming it in connection with "another case" on the Eastern Shore.
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