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Show ! REIMPOSE DEATH PENALTY ON NEGRO j HELENA, Ark., May 5 John Martin, Mar-tin, negro, -was found guilty of first degree murder for the second time in Phillips county circuit court here yesterday yes-terday for his part in the racial uprising upris-ing In the Elaine section last fall. He again was sentenced to be electrocuted. elec-trocuted. Martin was charged with the murder of W. A. Adkins, a special agent of the Missouri Pacific railroad, at Hoop spur the night of September 30, 1919. when a small sheriffs posse was fired on by negroes who were In' a darkened church. Martin was one of sb: negroes under death sentence whose cases were, remanded by the supreme court. no ' |