Tuesday, November 19, 2019

Grand Jury Fails to Find True Bill Against Sheriff, Nov. 19, 1919

From The Daily Times, Wilson, N.C., Wednesday, Nov. 19, 1919

Grand Jury Fails to Find True Bill

Albemarle, N.C., Nov. 18—The high sheriff conspiracy, baleful ghost that haunted the preliminary hearing of the various defendants now on trial in Superior Court here, charged with conspiracy to break laws inciting to riot and various other things, set out in a 2,000 word bill of indictment, is laid out.

Solicitor W.E. Brock presented a bill to the grand jury based on evidence offered by counsel for defense of Marvin L. Ritch, J.H. Graham and some other 30 members of the local textile union. This bill charged certain officers of the town, together with the mayor and practically every employee of the mills who is not a laborer, with conspiracy to break up a peaceful meeting. The second count charges breaking up the meeting. The grand jury did not find a true bill.
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