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FD-3$0 (Rov. 7-16-63) {Mount Clipping in Space Below) ‘Dyna “BY BILL. Bai. from. and costs and sentenced to days in jai, The trial was igld before Judge Earl Langner on Oct. 9. gle, John Wesley Hall, Gar-jand found it missing. Aft a 4 . paDallys and endale; and Robert TE. Cham-|Hall got peeved about it being? yyailihle uli! Monday , 2305 32nd-av, p, were at-imoved, he said he called the . sted on Sept. 20 by State roopers. The arrests climaxed' é&tensive investigation by Bir- tmingham, FBI and the state officers into the series of bomb- ings in Birmingham including the one of the Sixteenth Street’ Baptist. Church in which four Negro gitls were killed. While in City Jail, Cagle made certain statements which were Telated yesterday by Capt. Rob- ert Godwin and State Public Safety Director A! Lingo. Statement Read Godwin read the statement to the jury purportedly signed by Cagle, in which he told of a case of dynamite which was taken from the trunk of Cham- bliss’ car and put into a car driven by Hall. “Jn the statement, Cagle said Hall requested him to follow his car from a Ku Klux Klen meeting to pick up “something Chambliss wanted to get rid of.” He said he stopped at the Chambliss home in North Biv- mingham and watched Hall get something from the trunk of! Chambliss’ car and put into Hall’s car. He said he later learned it was dynamite. He said he car- Tied Hall to a spot beyond Gar-[ idendale, on Mockingbird-In, ‘where the case of dynamite was jhidden in the kudzu vines. According to Cagle's state- ment, Hall got worried and asked Cagle to get someone to move the explosive. He said he ic id where i asked him to move if. ion of dynamite was dismissed yesterday by Judge El Fitson before it got to a jury in Circuit Court. . arles A, Cagle, 1305 Vanderbilt-rd, was Feleated in is ap- the Birmingham Recoriler's Court, where he was Tihed) was_and 'theyarstumed, to t MOBLEY _ C. Had Words Later Later, he said he ai had words about it being moved, when Hall went to the scenel firiend and told him to put it back. | Littgtestified that~wrea_he saw Cagle at City Jail, Cagle told him be had been wanting [tcetolahim all he knew about the circumstances. Bid Cagle told him he had been harrassed by the FBI agenis who had interrogated him sev- eral times and had failed to find the dynamite after he told them where it was. | No testimony was presented by the state to show where Cagle ever touched the dst nite, or had it in Ais posses: sivn in any way. : Testimony of Godwin and Lingo revealed how Cagle guid- ed then: to the place where the, idynamite was hidden, about! Leight “or 10 miles out of Bice ranghiarn \ No Permit Issued ‘ Fire~Marshal A. Raseafeld,| chief of fire prevention in Bir-) ‘mingham, said no permit for] the possession of dynamite had: been issued to either Chambiiss, ‘Cagle or Hail during ihe past four years, However, after the state ‘closed their case without intro- ducing evidence to show that Cagle ever possessed the ex- plosive in the City of Birming:, ‘ham, Defense Atty. Matt Mur-| phy asked for a dismissal. Judge Watson granted the: motion in the absence of the jury but explained to the mem- bers why he had done so, when! SILOM. Hie said that since the City of stanti b ge oer See ‘ang the amgtion. ° * 7 ‘cake of a 23-year-old Klansman “charged ‘with ‘the :Bos “Judge Watson sét the ‘case Chambliss for 9 a.m. today but loin Lingo. to the “Hall in a hy jate the charges; permif from ligand. ti haviog felled to Ant ‘duce evidence. 1 “TBinmingroon in “itp mace s¢omplaint, had ‘with having sine ‘ a rower Po rhe. was his duty as ‘a judge to. ;snid they cottt—net-go case because Capt, Willie B. Painter is a key Witness tn the case. He is with com, lace, the security panying Gov. force ac- George Wal sill not, be [lndicate page, name of newspaper, city and state.) THE BIRMINGHAM NEW: THE BIRMINGHAM POST-HERALD BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA 6-16-64 KED STAR FINAL bate cao: John ¥. Bloomer vue: Charles Cagle, Robert E, Chambliss And John Hall Character: Bapbond Classification: BIRMINGHAM Submitting Office: (__] Being Investigated SEARCHED___ INDEXED SERIALIZED 2 = File” JUNI 8 1964 FBI BIRMINGHAM