Article about a white man in Canton, Miss., accused of shooting a group of five African Americans; Source: Commercial Appeal (Memphis, Tenn.); Unknown datehttps://egrove.olemiss.edu/jws_clip/1299/thumbnail.jp

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University of Mississippi eGrove Clippings James W. Silver Collection December 2018 Shooting Suspect Will Go On Trial United Press International Follow this and additional works at: https://egrove.olemiss.edu/jws_clip Recommended Citation United Press International, "Shooting Suspect Will Go On Trial" (2018). Clippings. 300. https://egrove.olemiss.edu/jws_clip/300 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the James W. Silver Collection at eGrove. It has been accepted for inclusion in Clippings by an authorized administrator of eGrove. For more information, please contact egrove@olemiss.edu. Shooting Suspect Will Go On TriaL 1 Canton .Man lIs !Accused Of E iF.wing.At ,Negroes ! CANTON, Miss., June 30.- f · (UPI)-Ben P. Lewis, 43, goes ~ ! on trial in Municipal Court' · here Monday on charges he t - fired a shotgun and wounded E · five Negroes near a voter ( ! registration meeting last week. Lewis, a white service sta- ~ tion operator, was arrested last Wednesday by Chief of ~ Police Dan Thompson and was ~ · released under $3,500 bond. ~ He was officially charged v with unlawfully pointing and t discharging the shotgun at ( Berniece McGruder, 23, Lee I · Carter, 23, Levey Jones, 20, t I Shirley Jean Dotson, 17, and ~ · Aggie Dotson, 16. ( r The Negroes were walking f down West Peace Street in the ( ~ vicinity of a Negro voter regis-tration meeting when the shoot- t. ! ing occurred~ \1 Miss McGruder said she saw s a white man standing in the k door of the service station a Lewis runs with a shotgun in e his hands just after she heard i! the shot. She and the other i , four were treated at a local 11 hospital for minor wounds. II 

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