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oe a et tee lee RAED eee 5 t 1 snuraer altno ne . S Pers tisible to the eye but{Could, not reveal _ sught out by —chemicals| A Cala Bee. eycating perspiration left in Once ©: By & \)> sated P . - place. Lea , .. eye Jackson detectives discov-| GREENWOOD, Miss.—Wita a ered ihe gun in mid-morning/One exception Byron de La ee Ee of June 12, about .10 hours|Beckwith, a 42-year-old Ma:! oes AE afterEvers was shot down iri rine’ ‘combat vetwran, a as his driveway, in a honcysuckle|likely to be as calm an con: "~ thicket near where officers be-|trolied as anyone. ooo” ‘lieve the shot was fired. The} That one exception fs the ’ Fats it ee Sire ; Scope was attached. racial question. note . be . “Mention negroes,” said The Penalty Vincent Cascio, his former Beckwith, a member of the employer, “and he would fly sesregationist Citizens Council, rd a rage.” faces death in the state’s 88S! Beckwith is a gun buff. chamber if convicted on the Friends in his home town of! murder charge. Greenwood said he fired guas His attorneys are also mem- as well as collected them, He bers of the Citizens Council, is from a pioneer Mississippi as are the mayor, commission family. He is a member of the ‘ers and most prominent per-lsons of the American Revolu- Sons in Greenwood, located in| tion and is an Episcopalian. @ County with a 2-1 negro ma-| Beckwith, who worked as a jority and 30 miles from) tobacco salesman for 10 years, Indianola, where the Citizens ; took a job four months ago as . Council was born in 1945. Lott sales agent with a fertilizer is city attorney and attorney firm. . ‘fox. the voter registrar of Le- “He was a top salesman,” flore County. Cascio said. “His territory was' Beckwith, a S-foot-7, 160- south of Greenwood and lel ' poind man, was driven to the) was liked by all the tobacco , Jackson police station Satur- merczants. He had a gift of day night by five FBI men. gab.” . He appeared calm yesterday «2 wos bora in Colusa, Cal. after state officials lodzed the his “Father's home state His murder charge against him. father Cied when he was a Atty, Gen, Robert Kennecy youngster, and his mother, said there was more evidence Iie Voare, a i 2 - to ‘link Beckwith, who was Met Grecawosd ratte 2 Ba Wounded by Japanese fire as her hometown to raise him. _ he-hit the beach on Tarawa, When he was 11, his mother mes Pera Feta |died, and he moved to the _ = frambling Greenwood home of .+ {his uncle, the late William G. “ {Yerger. He attended Mississippi State University for part of a year. i| Beckwith has one son, a : |tcen-ager. His marital life has | ybeen stormy. He married the : | {former Mary Louise Williams, , {@aughter of Mrs, Jesse R. ‘ |Williams and the late Mr, Wil. ‘ fliams of Knoxville, Tenn. She too, is from a pioncer South- ern family. She is a descendant of Roger Williams, the founder of Rhode Island. She attended Hunter College in New York City and is a fermer Wave. They have been divorecd, - reconciled and remarried. Now: they are separated, Ce 1 Tete, ith?’ aye, « . “United Press International Telephoto broeais Sorpeckwith ismay. MURDER CIHARGE—Byron Mayor C. E. Sampson said: de La Beckwith, 42, of “We have had cur troubles Greenwood, Miss., is ac- here, I don’t know what this cused of the sniper slaying [will do, I don’ think it should ON ee Ome, ree mE EE Ae ne ee of Medger” Evers, NAACP |scaalize Bee el beds - leader. ; rhs iy a arn . pedo ace 6. tore I 2 EY FE ey RCE eae FO aA BR RC A I RAE OTE IEA SOR tI et ones :