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“€ * t : at ' Greenwood Man Is Accused . By Associated Press / JACKSON, Miss.—State and federal officers pressed their search today for companions of Byron de La Beckwith, who was behind bars in the Jackson. jail charged by the state ‘of, Mississippi with the murder of | Medgar Evers. . 3 Still missing in the hunt jor those accused as killers of the 37-year-old Mississippi inie- gration leader were “others unknown.” They are charged ajong with Beckwith in a separate federal] complaint miade public after the FBI ar- rested Beckwith Saturday night. a Beckwith, a 42-year-old to- bacco salesman from Green- wood, Miss., talked with his at- torneys, law partners Hardy Lott and Stanny Sanders of Greenwood, yesterday and was returned to his cell after about 30 minutes. He is being held without} bond. He will appear at 2 p.m. tomorrow before U. S. Com- missioner John R. Countiss III. The arraignment will be held to determine if there is reason to believe he and others con- spired to deprive Evers of his civil rights. The Justice Department plans to let the State of Mis- sissippi have priority in deal- ing with Beckwith. A spokes- man said the federal govern- ment will recommend that he: be released without bond on: federal charges of conspiracy| * to injure -a person seeking=his| civil rights. ' {Mount Clipping in Space Below) way Will be cleared“iur Beck- ‘with to be prosecuted on a murder charge by Mississippi - authorities, the spokesman ex- plained. Police found a 30.06 Enfield rifle of World War I vintage near the murder scene. Fingerprint Found A six-power Golden Hawk telescopic sight mounted on the weapon yielded one good fingerprint and led the FBI to Beckwith. Agents located the Ameri- can importer of the Japanese- made sight. He had imported. 15,000 of them. They found five of the sights went to Mississippi, all to a Grenada gun dealer. One was traced to Beckwith, a gun col- lector, whom the FBI ques- tioned Friday night without gutting any answers. “Saturday night at a meeting arranged by Greenwood attor- ney Yerger Moorhead, a rela- tive of Beckwith, FBI agents arrested Beckwith under pro- visions of the 1957 Civil Rights Act. ’. “Beckwith and others un- known conspired.to injure, op- press and intimidate Medgar Evers in the free exercise and enjoyment of rights and privi- ‘Jeges secured to him by the: constitution,” the FBI said. Evers was state field secre- tary for the NAACP. : - Capt. Ralph Hargrove, chief of the Jackson Police Identifi- cation Bureau, fingerprinted Beckwith yesterday and found again his prints matched the one on the scope attached to a 0 caliber rifle that fired the al-shon _ It was, Hargrové=wno"Tirst| ‘ (Indicate page, name of newspaper, city and state.) — PACE / | — MEMPHIS PRESS~ SCINITAR — MEMPHIS, TENN. Date: 6/24/63 Edition LaaL Author: Editor: Title: Character: or Classification: Submitting Office LMPLIS