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FD-350 (4-43-62) f ath Ano OE 6 ene ‘Soo tines BY BILL MOBLEY . wo men convicted of ill gal ‘possession of dynamite yesterday n Recorder’s Court have atbpealed their fines and jail senténces é ircuit Court. . ‘Robert E. Charnbliss, | 59, 2505 30nd av, n; and John Wesley 1,36, Gardendale, were given maximum penalties of $100 and and 180 days in jil by é@ Earl Langner. :third man, Charles A. Cagle, Rt. 1, Box 205 Gardendale, as given an identical sentence tesday, All three men. were larged ‘Joititly inthe same” case. ‘a written confession ‘which: yas intreduced as evidence, Cagle ald State Investigators, Capt.- Willie B. Painter and Capt, R, W. odwin that he saw John Wesley alt take a box from the trunk’ of Chambliss’s car on the night of spt. 4, ' e said he showed Hall. where chide the case of dynamite in mtdendale, and the investigators” were later taken to the spot by. agle. * The three men, all with Ku Klux. Kian backgrounds, were arrasied od in the wake of several racial FINED-—--John W-. Hall bombings including one which oa ees killed four Negro girls as they at- ided Sunday school. ° The three men were freéd on 00 appeal bond. feThe three men wers’ arrested : ‘on the night of Sept. 29 a few hours after Governor George Wal- lace made an announcement that “arrests were imminent” in con- nection with recent bombings in Birmingham. . Confession Told z _ Maj. Bill Jones, head of state investigators, testified that. hambtiss, admitted to, officers . at he bought a case of dynamite —T Sept. 4, the morning prior to the pombing of Negro Attorney. Ar thu ‘Shores’ home. eee 3 , Jones quoted Chambliss, a truck fiver, as saying he bought the’. explosive to blast stumps on,prop-* erty. where the KKK, planed * toy erect a building. . p * Jones said that Cagle later led" the’: investigators to an area in| Gardendale «where 133 sticks ‘of dynamite were found in an open, ‘CONVICTED — “Robert ¢ -hembliss:: 5 “Strorny—for: 0 Chambliss at the time of his ar- rest denied ownership of the dyna- mite, but changed his story three. days later and admitted raking Matt Murphy . Jr., jCagle and Hall, . jents would be freed when their cases are put, before a: county: predicted his _ Judge Langner “conceded, most, af the. evidence was circumstan- tial; but said he felt there was a sufficient proof that the three ‘had: possessed dynamite without a Be : Langner heard the trials with- out a jury. None of the defendants the stand and the de attorneys called na witnesses: (inagicate page, name of newspaper, city and state.) THE BIRMINGHAM NERS 1 THE BIRME NGHAM —__ POST -HLRALD BIKMENGILIM, ALABAMA pare: 10/10/63 Edition: FIN ‘ Author: BILL HORLEY Editor JANES Fy MILES Title: BAPBIMB Character: BH or Classification: Submitting Office: