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0-19 (Rev. 1-26-88} Tolson Ja coach sper Guilty in Maleolm X Murders sft coves" Gal Roa Sullr Face Maximum of Life Imprisonment From Hews Duveiches = sthree white women and nine Butler was a coconspirster. A | Tave! NEW YORK, Marck 11 Frijmen, three of them Negroes,|number of witnesses testified Trotter day}—All thpse defendants in} Convicted were Talmadge|that all three were in the ball- Tele, Room the Malcolai¢S murder trialltaver, 24, also known asjT00m when Malcolm X was Holmes were Convicted of murder i 8 Thomas Hagan, of Paterson) ai three defendants sat Gandy the first degree early today. N.J.; Norman 3X Butler, 27,|impassively while the verdict of the Bronx; and Thomas 15X|Wes read by the jury foreman, ; Johnson, 30, of the Bronx, /George S. Carter. 4 The jury received the case . Wednesday afternoon at the end of an eight-week trial. wit The verdict came some 14 a hours after the jury had begun _ 3 its second day of deliberations. nae All three face a maximum ve ‘ sentence of life imprisonment. as Judge Charles Marks set April fog 14 for sentencing. * he ; The three were charged with _ acting in concert to execute = Malcolm X, who bolted the aed Black Muslim sect to lead his . - own following of black nation- alists 7 Jobnson and Butler are mA avowed Muslims but testified = ar they were at home with their mid families on Feb. 21, 1965, a7 when Malcolm X was gunned _ down in Manhattan’s Audu- ben Ballroom. Hayer, in a my ‘surprise move in the eighth a week of the nine-week trial, & took the witness stand and AA “s said he and two other un- The Washington Pest ond identified men were hired to Ps [nnenmnenranae Times Herald a assassinate Malcoim by per- : = idea that elther Jo ‘ The Evening Star New York Herald Tribune New York Journal-Amertcan New York Daily News New York Post The New York Times The Baltimore Sun \d- b— 399 BAS Ah vere: ween The New Leader NOT No? RECORDED The Wall Street Journal 191 MAR 24 1906 ad The National Coserver Peopie’s World