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. Mr, Tolson _»“ i . , Mr. EL A. Det ‘ ; r, Clegg 4 “* -" Mr. Coffey ___ . 4 . Glavin__ ‘ . La Mr Mr r, Nichow Ge: Ros 1 # Mr. Tracy Mr. Carson Mr. Egan — Mr. Hendon __ Mr. Penningta Mr. Quinn Tar ose Final Appeals Moe Goea | _ Murderers Face Quick Execution % As Result of Supreme Court Action Slayers of two Washin ton seas Reardon after she had com- i men yesterday lost plained of diyt under her desk and {called him a “black nigger.” Her : : Aghts to escape the electric chair. Coa. was found in a steam pipe rea The _U. ourt_r&!tunnel in a subbasement of the Ca- \ . fused_to sider an appeal by |thedral the next day. Joseph Do-Medl his first: Justice Stanley F. Reed, in de- wow “GeFee Murder conviction in the|livering the Fisher opinion and re- . , shooting of Mrs. Nancy Boyer counting history of the trial, said fan March 8, 1945.. He is scheduled |Fisher’s counsel sought an instruc- ‘aa to die August 2. tion from the trial judge “which Na “The high court affirmed, 4 to 3,/would have permitted the jury to = the ‘murder conviction of dulis|weigh the evidence of the defend- isher, Negro, 31-year-old Wash-|ant’s mental deficiencies, Fwhich r Ingion Cathedral janitor, sentenced| were short of insanity in the legal to die October 26 for the slaying| sense. The trial court refused and of Miss Catherine Cooper Rear- lthe United States Court, of Appeals don, 37, in the Cathedral March|here upheld the refusal.” 1, 1944, Justice Reed said this conforms Medley, former Michigan econ-|to the Iaw of the District of Co- vict who fled the District Jail here|lumbia. April 3 only to be captured 7 hours| “Matters relating to law enforce- . later in a sewer pipe, originaily|ment in the District of Columbia,” was sentenced to die Aprit 30./he said, “are entrusted to the The execution was postponed pend-|courts of the District. \ ing outcome of the appeal. “Our policy is not to enterfere Mrs, Boyer, attractive red-haited|With the local rules of law which divorcee, was found slain in her|tbey fashion, save in exceptional fashionable apartment after a card)situations where egregious error party and Medley was arrested in|has been committed. " St. Louis, Mo., 10 days later. “Where the choice of the Court Justices Felix Frankfurter, Frank|of Appeals of the District of Co- - urphy and Wiley Rutledge dis-|lumbia in local matters betwee ented In the Fisher decision forjconfficting legal conclusions seem he 4-to-3 result. nicely balanced, we do not inter Fisher had testified he attacked fere.” et. Fred . 7 . IKDEXEE per - FAG LY rl) NOT BEG DUD | \$ 87 AUG 7 1945 ae al Gee. WASHHINGTON POST Page