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102 Witnesses Listed
The State's Attorney has prepared a list of 102 witnesses to appear before the investigating body.
Those called today were for the most part physicians, nurses and other attaches of the Peninsula General Hospital, from which Williams was taken. Sheriff G. Murray Phillips was one of the principal witnesses in point of the time. He remained before the body or about an hour.
Other witnesses were Miss Helen V- Wise, superintendent of the hospital; Miss Florence S.Smith,dietician; Miss Myrtle Nock, supervisor; the Misses Mary Robinson and Myrtle Wright, nurses; Dr. R. M. Nock, Dr. J. McFadden Dick; Dr. Hunter R. Mann, Talbot Larmore, Miss Lillian Serman, and Severn W. Murray, of Berlin.
At the morning session the jury returned only eight indictments, compared with sixty-three at the last. It adjourned at 5 o'clock to reconvene at 8 A. M. tomorrow.
Labor Defense Demands Impeachment Of Judge
Impeaphment of Judge Joseph L. Bailey because of the nature of his charge to the Wicomico county grand jury investigating the lynching of Matthew Williams, a Negro, at Salisbury, was demanded of Governor Ritchie yesterday in a telegram dispatched by Louis Berger, secretary of the International Labor Defense League.
Mr. Berger also sent a telegram to Judge Bailey in which he criticized the jurist for the make-up of the grand jury which, he said, had no Negro or poor farmer members. The jury, the telegram stated, seeks "to protect the murderers of Matthew Williams."
Makes No Reply
Governor Ritchie made no reply to the demand.
The telegram to the Governor declared that Judge Bailey charged the jury in its investigation to divert attention to the International Labor Defense League rather than to seek the criminals responsible for Williams' death.
Calls Charge Insult
The communication further said that the "outside organization" referred to by the judge was the league and that the jurist's charge was an insult to it. The telegram added that nothing would have been done about the lynching and the investigation would have been postponed indefinitely had it not been for the strong agitation of the league.
Mr. Berger asked that a committee of Negro and white workers be allowed "to investigate the lynching and also investigate the grand jury to learn whether any of its members Were part of the lynch mob leaders."
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