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LYNCHING JURY IS EXPECTED TO REPORT TODAY
Wicomico State's Attorney Looks For Findings In Afternoon
21 MORE WITNESSES HAVE BEEN CALLED
Salisbury Police Chief Is
"ore Investigat
Nearly Hour
Before Investigators
By FBA.XK K. KENT, JR.
Staff Correspondent of The Sun.
Salisbury, Md., March 16—Expectation that the Wicomico county grand jury will complete its investigation of the lynching of Matthew Williams, Negro, and make known its finding tomorrow afternoon was voiced today by Levin C. Bailey, State's Attorney.
Seventy witnesses testified today and twenty-one more had been summoned to tell the jury what they know of events connected with the lynching of Williams, who shot to death Daniel J. Elliott, Salisbury lumber dealer, December 4.
Mr. Baile,y said the jury, which formally opened its investigation Tuesday, is willing to devote any amount of time to the inquest and to summon before it anyone whose name is presented in good faith as having knowledge which might bear on the subject.
Police Chief Quizzed
Among those who appeared before the jurors today was Police Chief N. H. Holland, of Salisbury, who was on guard at the main entrance of the Peninsula General Hospital when the lynchers entered by a side door and took Williams to the Courthouse Square, where the Negro was hanged from a tree. Mr. Holland was questioned nearly an hour this morning.
Throughout the morning and afternoon sessions a double stream of witnesses flowed up and down the Courthouse steps. The naming of twenty-one more persons to appear swells the total list prepared by Mr. Bailey to 123. Yesterday the jury questioned twelve, including physicians and nurses at the hospital.
Additional Ones Named
Those named in addition to the
original 102 are:
Graydon L. Ware. Loran Niblett,
Fred A. Grier, Jr., Thomaa Webster.
Harry Waller, Russell White.
Marion Brown. Randolph Ralph,
John Croswell. Daniel J. Elzey.
Dr. H. A. Barnes, Roger Jennings,
Mary Massey. nurse; George Fallow.
John Martin. Sr.. Edward Guthrie,
John Martin. Jr.. Elmer Shockley. L. Carroll Hopkins. Negro.
Fats Wilson, Somer- John Hudson. Kegro. set county;
Their Testimony Taken
Those who have testified before the grand jury are: i
Misa Helen E. Fisher, of the Peninsula General Hospital.
Dr. S H. Hurdle, health officer.
James Handy. Negro, hospital orderly.
John Easton. hospital orderly.
Leah Brewington, colored, cook.
Samuel C. Broughton and John M. Goslee, of the Salisbury police.
Alfred T. Truitt and Charles J. Truitt, Salisbury publishers.
E. Sheldon Jones, a newspaperman.
David J. Ward. State Senator from Wicomico county.
William ,T. Antes, John W. Oowning,
Alexander Pollitt. W. Arthur Kenuerly,
William O. Dolan, Otho L.. Byrd.
Wallace H. White. W. 0. Thurston,
Ira D. Turner. J,ee O. Harris.
John G. Farlow, J. M. Schramm.
N. James Gordy. Howard Campbell,
P. E. Burroughs, William Perry,
E. Urie Oliphant. Roger Bailey.
William Calloway, Ralph Corbiri.
L. Thomaa Parker, John Crockett.
Fred Ruark. Sidney Church.
Rufus Perry. Police Chief Robert
Rill Maddox, Allen, of Ocean
Russell Dennis. City:
Marion Smith. William Harrington.
Pat Hitchens. Fred A. Grier.
Milton Clark. Marion Brown.
Louis A. Smith, Dr. H. A. Barnes.
Elwood Waller. Miss Mary Massey.
Conrad O. Long, John Martin. Sr.,
Henry Terrell. John Martin. Jr..
Petta Johnson. L. Carroll Hopkins.
Richard Elliott.
Negroes who testified today were:
Marion Talley. J. R. Waters.
Ijeandon Morris. Daniel J. Elzey,
Howard Leonard. Roger Jennings,
Henry Pumell. Elmer Shocbley. Maslin Pickett.
W. Preston Lane, Jr., Attorney-General, and G. C. Anderson, Assistant Attorney-General, were in the grand jury room with Mr. Bailey. The body adjourned at 5 P. M. to reconvene at 9 A. M» tomorrow.
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