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: — a L i ae ( Fan ' =" xe FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION - Tis case oniainatepat SAVANNAH, GEORGIA. FILE NO. bd 39 dgk t - REPRE ADEA... PERIOD rom REPORT MADE BY te || CHARLOTTE, N. C. 12-1,2-43 $e CIVIL SIGHTS AND DOMESTIC VIQLENCE oe - U eyvnopsisorracts: Complaint submitted by Major SIDNEY LAQILBERT . regarding killing of WILLIE L. DAVIS, negro - soldier at Summit, Georgia, on July 3, 2943,° by Chief of Police JAMES MITCHELL BOHsANNON. BOHANNON held to be justified by coroner's i jury. Army investigation reflected the killing Coe to be unjustifiable, Complainant felt that the s° results of Army investigation warranted further a Be investigation of the case by the FBI. oe ‘i | DETAILS: "At High Point, North Carolina BE This report is prediceted upon a complaint received from Major be _SIDNEY L. GILBERT, Legal Advisor, Judge Advocate Generals Department, on ae December 1, 1943, Major GILBERT advised that he was in receipt of a letter e from the mother of WILLIE DAVIS?’ Army Serial Number 34,059,054, Technical pa 5th Medical Detachment, New Orleans Arny, Air Base, New Orleans, Louisiana, he ". which letter was written to Mrs. ELEANORYROOSEVELT, regarding the killing of e _.DAVIS by Chief of Police JAMES MITCHE HANNON at Summit, Georgia, on be July 3, 1943. Mrs. DAVIS complained of the fact that the killing of her son ey], Wes to go unpunished, Ore eg Jo em att hp ’ * “lt. o Vo liag te sean a -- bee ; Details of the killing, the findidgs of the Army Medical Board, ta, "lg the Army Medical Record, the investigative report of Lieutenant RiLPH WILLIS, we arid copies of the statements of witnesses as obtained in the Army record of a DAVIS, weve reviewed by the reporting agent. i - ee 4, ative repoft of First Lieutenant RALPH WILLIS, er piog’ DAVIS was unjustifiably killed by SO'AMTON e 00 NOT WRITE JN THESE SPACES e - we. igi ai 0 =| 3 savamnan | AD ) + id PIES DESTROYBD (fl {tt «ph 7902 ° © if . te eeyr ee a a a