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Show uu SEVENTY-FIVE DAYS FOE ASSAULT "Snowball" Leonard Washington, the colored man who attacked' Charles Walker, the 15-year-old son of Samuel Walker of Wilson, was found guittv in police court this morning of assault and was sentenced sen-tenced to seventy-five days on tho roQk pile. At the afternoon session of court yesterday, testimony was Introduced which contradicted the. colored boy's story relative to the trouble, several nf his own witnesses stating that they did not hear anything more insulting in-sulting said to him than "black coon." It was also shown to the court's satisfaction that the defendant had used more forco In striking the boy than ho would admit and that, after knocking hlra down, he had followed him out into the road and had cuffed him again In sentencing '"Snowball." the judge stated that no matter what the boys had said to him, abusive language was no causo for taking tho law into his own hands and beating (he boy as he did. He told him that he should have complained If the boys annoyed him and that the attacks at-tacks of that nature would be attended at-tended to by the officers |