NEGRO TO DIE
Sequel To Riot IH.Z.P.A.-Rent er—Copyright) CLEVELAND (Ohio), May 13. A Negro, Fred Evans, aged 37, was today sentenced to die in the electric chair after being found guilty of killing four persons, three of them policemen, during the racial disorders in Cleveland last July. An all-white jury of seven women and five men found Evans guilty of the firstdegree murder of the three policemen and a civilian. The jury did not make any recommendation for mercy, which meant that he automatically received the death penalty. He was sentenced to die in the Ohio State Penitentiary in Columbus on September 22. The prosecution said that Evans directed a conspiracy to kill the policemen, and bought rifles and trained followers for a gun battle that raged in the Negro suburb of Glenville on July 23. Defence lawyers said Evans was “a non-violent man who taught his followers black pride.”
Evans was the first of four persons to be tried in connection with the incident. a
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31987, 14 May 1969, Page 17
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