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| JURYTDLQ TO QUIZ LYNCHING By Associated Press. SALISBURY, Md., March 14.—Instructions to investigate not only the lynching of Mathew. Williams, but to conduct a sweeping inquiry into events •which led to the murder of Daniel J. Elliott, for which the negro was lynched, were contained in the instructions of Judge Joseph L. Bailey, to the grand jury today. Judge Bailey, in giving his instructions, tacitly laid the blame for the murder and the subsequent lynching on the activities of Communists organizations throughout the Eastern Shore. The grand jury, charged with the investigation of the lynching, was organized with A. Percy White, former member of the House of Delegates from Wicomico county as its chairman. Williams was lynched by a mob of some 2,000 persons in the courthouse green here the night of December 4 for the murder of his employer, aDniel J. Elliott, lumberman. The negro was dragged from his bed in the Salisbury General Hospital a few hours after the murder of Elliott. |