Wetumpka Gains Affinity For Some Headlines

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Source Type

Newspapers

Publisher

The Daily Advocate

Publication Place

Greenville, OH

Publication Date

11/23/1966

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Wetumpka Gains Affinity For Some Headlines WETUMPKA, Ala. (UPI)- Wetumpka is inconspicuous on the map of Alabama (it's just above Montgomery), but it has an 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, Pfc. 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 Sun- day. Motley's stepfather, William Varner, charged Monday that "my son was beaten to death." Sheriff Lester Holley counters that if Motley was beaten "he wasn'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 making an arrest. Varner said Motley and five companions were en route to Wetumpka from Montgomery when their car was stopped

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