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pho } pie 4 sin aa 4 i to ° : ry oF {Mount Clipping in Space Below) Beckwith Gels-2Month Belay ‘(UPI)—-fecircuit court indge “Uader—chose circumsiances, Monday granted a two-month Beckwith would be under the delay before ruling on whether Cloud of the murder indict- Byron De La Beckwith must ment until some future action aor ° ‘ .. were taken. { go on trial a third time in i ,the ambush slaying of Negro Beckwith, who was not pres-: leader Medgar Evers. ent in the courtroom Monday, Judge Leon Hendrick ap-teturned to Greenwood soon P ; after the all-white second proved a request by Dist. Atty. jury split 4 for acquittal. It William Waller to postpone was his first day of freedom further action until the July since his arrest last June 23. term of Hinds County Circuit The jury deadlocked 6-6 in Court, ” ; the first trial. defense during both trials, vig- Beckwith remained free bn at orously proclaiming he was in- 10,000 bond set after h}s nocent. The defense produced — econd trial ended in a hupg! several witnesses who swore jury April 17. His first trialjthey saw Beckwith at Green- earlier this year also was de-]wood on the night Evers was clared a mistrial with the jury Nee rt testimony was pre- unable to agree on a verdict. sented by the state in an ef- Under state law, the 43-/fort to’ prove Beckwith’s fin- year-old Greenwood salesman] gerprint was‘lifted from the al- could be tried indefinitely for! leged a ean a arey, sr: owered ri - the Kill ing of Evers, who was euckle thicket near the Evers [state field secretary of the Na-\pome—” eset ‘tional Association for the Ad- coe vancement of Colored People. Evers was killed in the drive- way of his Jackson home June 12, 1963. , The state could request a third trial, or recommend that the case simply be placed in jan inactive file to be brought; out if and when new evidence is found or if and when the procccution decided to press, it again. - cetera 2 een eee | Beckwith testified in his own, (Indicate page, name of newaepaper, city and state.) —~Page- /9 ~The Commercial Appeal ~ Menphis, Tenn. pate5/5/64 Edition: Author: Sississivpi Editor: Tite: Frank ahl yren Character: or. Classification: Submitting Office: [te er ee