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Miss. Police. | Probe Death , Of N esTo LIBERTY, Miss. (AP)~Amite County officers sought more de- jtails in the death of Louis An- ‘len, a Negro logger found dead Saturday from a load of buck- 0 i, Allen, in-his 50s, had been ‘killed early Saturday Morning ,with @ shotgun blast -inio_ his head, ; Coroner E. E. Bellue said an inquest jury ruled he died at the ands of an assailant or assail- ants unknown. ; Nothing Uncovered The sheriff's office said it had uncovered nothing new late Sat-: ‘urday in the probe of the case.! ' Sheriff Daniel Jones said Ai Jen was killed at a gate to al figld leading to his home. Kis! jbcdy was found under a truch, |} | Yones said it was nat deter. imined whether Allen was Slain! ‘after or before he crawled un-!" Ger the truck, ;_A civil rights worker in Jacke! ‘son Said that Allen “was a wit- iness in the fatal shooting of Lib- erty Negro Herbert Lee by State Rep. Eugene Hurst.’? Concerned Debt Ed Hollandale, communication officer for the Student Non- Violent Coordinating Commiitee in Jackson, said their. Teco-ds! showed that “Allen didn’t testi-; |fy in connection with the shéate: ling. The shooting eentered daround an alleged debt that Lee ‘claimed the state representative owed the Negro,” ; | The shooting took place in ‘October 1961 at a cotton gin in Liberty, records showed, ani! : > ‘parently the” shooting dit «2; [progress beyond a corono~’s ‘)- ee ere The coroner’s jurv ruled that Hollandale also charged that {nurst shot Leé in self defense. | 47 Allen's son recently had his car oO 7 hate al jshat at whh buckshat”” Asked) jiwhy, he seid he did not knaw.; jt Sheriff Jones wzs unavailabye! ifor comment. ‘ | At Milwaukee, Allen’s brother’ had partici pated in civil rights actitivies land had once tes fied egainst ap “white man charged with tle murder of another Negro. hors ‘ris said his brother had been ‘subjected to harassmeat. tias in Mississippi since he’ }Morris said Le ' Hy waukes Journal quoted: ‘Sheriff Jones as saying ne was. aware that Louis. Alien had participated in civil rights ac- tivities and denied that Allen mad been harassed, : | Edward Smyth, presiden: of ‘the Milwaukee chapter ol ‘tha: iNational Association for the Ads ivancement of Colored Pecne, iseid he hac asked the organiza: ition’s field representative int “ti . ‘Jacks to iavestigate.- i Cart . geneval counsel bof th ef Racial ‘Equals a telegram to LUS, A Goseral Nena surging fim to scid ito proiect voter {Workers in 3 “Le ai akited : Jjiin said. “Te a) In We: -tprimont FBI to ste — = [basis for : Exen frovge Siar virtes Laien hOvge, hv, 1 BLURAY 2 Wef