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JURY QUESTIONS LAST WITNESS IN LYNCHING PROBE
123 Of 130 Called Before Salisbury Investigators Appear
JURORS LIKELY TO ACT BEFORE DAY IS OVER
To Deliberate On Course
Of Action After Brief
Adjournment
Salisbury, Md., March 18 (.P)—Completing the gathering of testimony from witnesses, the Wicomico county grand jury adjourned early this afternoon to reconvene later in the day to start its deliberation and to prepare a formal report.
Its report was expected before night. Last Of 123 Witnesses
Five witnesses were heard during the morning by the jury which is investigating the lynching of Matthew Williams, colored, last December; his murder of his' employer, Daniel J. Elliott, prominent lumberman, and reported Communistic activities previous to their deaths.
Dr. Arthur D. Brown, Marion Hy-man, of Princess Anne, and Virgil Harmon were the last of a parade of witnesses that have passed through the grand jury room since the probe started early in the week. A total of 123 witnesses of the 130 called were heard by the inquiring body.
Baltimoreans Testify
Two Baltimore detectives, Graydon L. Ware and Walter Martin, were in the jury room for more than an hour this morning. They were questioned separately by Attorney-General William Preston Lane, Jr., and Assistant Attorney-General G. C. Anderson. The two State prosecutors had entered the investigation to aid State's Attorney Levin C. Bailey, of Wicomico county.
Wave and Martin had been sent to Salisbury shortly after the lynching of Williams and the murder of Elliott to investigate the two deaths and the circumstances leading up to them.
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