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O-19 (Rew. 1-26-66) ye 3-Convicted in Slaying weet 29ers aT Pe yn NE, (AP) — Arler deliberating tore than 20 hours, s Supreme Court jury has convicted three men of first- degree murder in the assassina- tion of Mack nationalist leader ‘Unly five” silent spectators were seated in the ben heavily guarded courtroom when George Carter, the Negro fore- man, read the verdict at 12:20 a.m, today. The case had gone to the jury of three white women and nine men, including three Negroes, ap on vgitweeh tial ter Norman 3% Butler Thomas 15X Johnson Talmadge Hayer Highlighting those proceed- ings was the dramatic court jas Hagan, sought to exonerate|“I just want to testify that room confession of Talmadgejthe other two defendants,|/Butler and Jonnson had nothing Hayer, 24, one of the convicted|Norman 3X Butler, 27, and/to do with this.” men. Reversing earlier testimo-|Thomas 15X Johnson, 30, both] Justice Charles Marks set ny in which he had sworn he/of the Bronx. April 14 for sentencing the three was immocent, Hayer admitted! He said he had been hired!men to mandatory life imprison- taking part in the killing. with four other men to kill! ment. But. Hayer, of Paterson, N.J.,/Malcolm, but he refused to} Maleelm was felled in a hail indicted under the name ‘Thom-|name his confederates, saying,|of shotgun and pistei-fire on Feb. 21, 1965, as he a betore 400 of his followers in a Manhattan ballroom. The onetime chief lieutenant of Black Muslim leader Elijah Muhammad, he had been suspended for saying the assas- sination of President Kennedy was an example of “chickens coming hor bome to roost. Ltd After leaving the sect, Mal- colm, 39, stated publicly that he had been marked for death by the Black Muslims, but Muham- ants in the “Fruit of Islam,” the Black Muslim elite guard. At the time of Malcolm's kill to were both out on ball ‘OT F allegedly another “Each testified he was home at the time of the shooting, TOP CLIP Mh bated tS Tinos hebald gE SEP Tinos hol 1100 377 32/4 MARKED FILE AND WOTIALE iin oe oo ae ~ yt ee ON TORE NOT RECORDED amt... 191 MAR 24 1966 ap — — — if New York Herald Tribune Callahan b7e Conrad Felt Gale Rose Sullivgn Tavel ~ Trotter Tele, Room Holmes Gandy a £7C¢ The Washington Pcst ana Times Herald | The Washington Daily News _ The Evening Star, - iu New York Journal-Amertcan New York Daily News New York Post The New York Times The Baltimore Sun The Worker The New Leader The Wall Street Journal The National Observer Date A owt Lk 1863