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_ PRE-TRIAL HEARINGS, JANUARY 25 to 27, 965, AT MERIDIAN, MISSISSIPPI _States District Judge HAROLD COX, Southern District of In connection with Fox's pleadings before United “Mississippi, on January 25 to 2 1965, at Meridian, “Mississippi, “Departmental “motions were 1. 7 oy Attorney ROBERT OWEN advised that the following heard and argued D, an Mction for severance. |\,- WAASS foes A motion for severance for Horace Doyle. Barnette was granted by U. S. District Judge HAROLD J, COX. Motion to suppress search warrants. In connection with this motion, testimony was presented by Special Agents of the FBI HENRY L, MC CONNELL and JOHN H. KRESEK, who testified concerning their service of a search warrant August 4, 1964, on OLEN BURRAGE, who is the owner of Burrage Dam. Special Agent of the FBI JAY COCHRAN, JR. testified regarding entries by Bureau Agents and excavating equipment on BURRAGE's prop- erty August 4, 1964, to effect the exhumation of the bedies of the three civil rights workers, SCHWERNER, CHANEY and GOODMAN, who were buried in BURRAGE's dam. In connection with this motion, Defendants' attorneys directed specific questions to COCHRAN concerning reconnoitering conducted by Agents on BURRAGE's property prior to August 4, 1964, which was the date of serv- ing the search warrant on BURRAGE. Special Agent JOHN H. PROCTOR, JR. testified concerning. the terrain searches conducted on BURRAGE's property prior to August 4, 1964, and concerning the survey of the access road to the BURRAGE property, which road was employed in bringing the earth-moving equipment to hey) damsite, 15 59-37 EP PIE epee Lega pete a lp atl