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16th Street Church Bombing — Part 11
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p dmi 5 Sawin te jeleee's | on Miaen In Vines
4 mIsstons ee ye colccman! He said. they. took it ontile THE BIRMINGHAM
said two men told him they helped ‘town and hid it in some kudzu | POST-I-RALD
ide a case of dynamite in the vines on Mockingbird-In in Gar-
g 5) woods the night a Negro leader's dendale.
re e a i home was bombed last month, | Defense Atty. Matt Murphy Jr..
' Statement Introduced objected strongly to admissicn of
In Cagle’s trial, the state intro- the alleged confession, Murphy
7 duced a signed statement Cagle questioned whelher it was made
cers made to Capt. Robert Godwin cor- voluntarily. He said that Cagle
teborating Hall’s version of what had been held incommunicado for | ——
, happened the night of Sept. 4. ;22 hours alter his arrest,
Charles Cagle ‘According to Cagle’s statement,| W. E. Berry, deputy fire mar-
+ the dynamite was allegedly hid- shall, Lsstified that no permit for
Draws Maximum 0, “Sher atty, arthur Shores’ possession of aynamiteenee bean | —
Under Laws jhome was bombed. ssued to Cagle, Hall or Cham-
| A bomb exploded at a corner jbifss ~~~ —
One of three men charged ‘of Shores’ bouse on Center-st late | Cagle and Chambliss were ar-
with itfegal possession of ,that night, touching off a riot in jrested hy state investigators Sept. | pate:
dynomite during recemt,%hich one Negro wos shot to \29. Hall was taken into custody © 10/9/63
BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMS
bombings wes convicted lost ‘death. Tt was the second time in [two days later. Edition: FINAL
hight in Recorder's Court two weeks the home had been. Birmingham has had more than | Author:
here bombed, and came on the day ,40 racial bombings since World
‘Negro childten registered for the [War IL including that of Sept.J oo JAMES E, MILLS
Charles Caste 22, was fined Sind Fiat time at neardy Graymont {15 in which four girls were blasted| 7's: BAPBOMB
and sentenced ty six months hard school. to death at Sixteenth Street Bap-
labor. He posted a $300 appeal Cagle’s statement said he went jtist Church.
bond and was released. ‘The to a Ku Klux Klan rally the | In passing sentence Judge
charge is a misdemeaner. ‘ight of Sept. 4 in nearby Besse- Langer said testimony definitely} “P°'9°t*s* BM
City Judge Earl Langner con- mer, where he met Chambliss and jestablished that the defendant is, or
vieted Cagle on two counts in- Hail, Later, the statement said, |guilty of having in his possession]
volving the dynamite. Bunce Wyent toa restaurant explosives and “coming at times| 0s”
The two other men, scheduled where they ate supper and “sat like these the court feeis compel.{ Submitting Office: BIEMEXSHAY
to be tried this morning, are R. E. around listening. te a Birmitghar iled to assess the maximum fine of “_ eke
Chambliss, 59, and John Wesley Police radio about the bombing.” |$10Q, and costs and six ths at,
Hall, 3 Both are charged with pies, hey let they went Recripper “nt SEAS
possession of dynamite without a {Chambliss” house at 25 av, 6 7
ct and with aiding and abet. (m where, Cagle's statement said, g 7 v4 Lom F/- £0
ting-Bethe illegal possession of Hall and a woman who came out } a
‘dynamite. . ‘of the house went to a car parked . &
there and brought aut” a' box , oe ie
whichustiwas afraid was dyra- ,
was cy _
mite.””
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