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| Attorney General to Confer With Officials There (Continued From Page One) house square. A mob of more than 2,000 was reported present. The charred body was left hanging from a pole in the Negro section of the city after the lynching. Williams was said to have shot and killed his employer, Daniel J. Elliott, several hours before the mob took him. Eastern Shore officials blame the mob uprising on delay in the trial of Orphan Jones, alias Yual Lee, 60-year-old Negro, charged with the murder of four members of a Berlin (Md.) farm family. Liberties Union Enters Case Assistant Atty. Gen. Willis R. Jones today was drafting a brief in the Orphan Jones case to be presented to the Court of Appeals. Meanwhile, it was announced by the Maryland committee of the American Civil Liberties Union that Attorneys John H. Skeen and Reuben Oppenheimer have been instructed to take part in the Orphan Jones appeal hearing. A statement issued by the Maryland directors, Arthur O. Lovejoy, Elisabeth Gilman, Gertrude Bussey, John P. Troxell, Eli Frank Jr., Margaret T. Carey, Peter Ainslie and Reuben Oppenheimer, said in part: 'Of Great Importance' "If permission is granted for these attorneys to act in the case as amici curiae (friend of the court) they will file a brief on the point which is before the Court of Appeals (whether the Jones murder trial should be removed from the Eastern Shore section). "The committee feels that this point is of great public importance, not only in the present case but in future cases which may arise." It was pointed out that the attorneys will receive no compensation and that the American Civil Liberties Union has no connection with other organizations interested in the case. |