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Six Years’ Battle For Life PROSECUTION WITHDRAWS CHARGES By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright. (Received July 25, 7.35 p.m.) Decatur (Alabama), July 24. The six years’ battle for life of the Scottsboro negroes was ended dramatically and astoundingly by the State attorneys announcing the withdrawal of rape charges against the five accused, Ozie Powell, Olean Montgomery, Willie Roberson, Eugene Williams and Roy Wright. The prosecution was “convinced they are not guilty.” However, Powell was not freed and pleaded guilty to-tlay to the attempted killing of a deputy-sheriff in 1936. He was sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment. The withdrawal of the charges was announced after the conviction of Charlie Weems, who w r as sentenc ed to 75 years’ imprisonment. The Scottsboro case began in March, 1931, with the arrest of nine negro boys on charges of attacking two women of low’ character on a train. Death sentences were repeatedly passed on several of the negroes, but for various reasons the convictions were quashed, A week ago one of the accused was sentenced to death for the third time, and on Wednesday another was found guilty and sentenced to 90 years’ imprisonment.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 256, 26 July 1937, Page 11
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