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| JURY TO DOT LYNCH REPORT By Associated Press. SALISBURY, Md., March IS.— Completing the gathering of testimony from witnesses, the Wicomico county grand jury adjourned early this afternoon, later to start its deliberation and to prepare a formal report. Five witnesses were heard during the morning by the jury which is investigating the lynching of Matthew Williams, negro, here last December; his murder of his employer, Daniel J. Elliott, prominent lumberman, and reported communistic activities previous to their deaths. 123 WITNESSES HEARD Dr. Arthur D. Brown, Marion Hayman of Princess Anne and Vergil Harmon completed the parade of witnesses. The probe started early in the week. A total of 123 witnesses of the 130 called were heard by the inquiring body. Two Baltimore detectives, Gray-don L. Ware and Walter Martin, were in the jury room for more than an hour this morning. DETECTIVES QUIZZED They were questioned separately by Attorney General William Preston Lane, Jr., and Assistant Attorney General G. C. Anderson. The two State Prosecutors had entered the investigation to aid State's Attorney Levin C. Bailey of Wicomico county. Ware and Martin had been sent to Salisbury shortly after the lynching of Williams and the murder of Elliott to investigate the two deaths and the circumstances leading up to them. |