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Title
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Negro Charges Jailed Son Beaten To Death
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Source Type
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Newspapers
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Publisher
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The Delta-Democrat Times
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Publication Place
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Greenville, MI
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Publication Date
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11/23/1966
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Transcript
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Negro Charges Jailed Son Beaten To Death WETUMPKA, Ala. (UPI)- Wetumpka is Inconspicuous on the map of Alabama (it's just above Montgomery), but It has on affinity for catching the nation's attention. Last May, the town couldn't find room In its public cemetery -other than a pauper's grave- for its first Viet Nam casualty, Plc. Jimmy L. Williams, 19, a Negro. Williams was buried in a national cemetery at Andersonville, Ga. Today, the death of another Negro has the town back in the news. The man, James Earl Motley. 23, died in the Elmore (Wetumpka) County Jail Sunday, Motley's stepfather, William Varner, charged Monday that "my son was beaten to death." SHERIFF Lester Holley counters that if Motley was beaten "he wash't beaten in jail." Holley said an investigation was being made and "when I have a report, everyone will know it." Holley said he was out of town when Motley was arrested Saturday night on charges of drunkenness, resisting arrest and interfering with an officer the making an arrest. Conner ordered Motley and the driver of the car, Wilbur Jackson, to get out of the vehicle, Varner said. Motley objected that the Elmore County officer had no authority in Montgomery County. But they got out and talked with Conner and then returned to their car, Varner said. Conner fired a shot and summoned two state troopers on his car radio, the father said.
