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Show SILL MM II NEED OF Lie Bill Massa, a negro, charged with assault upon a negro woman and negro ne-gro man with a deadly weapon, today Informed District Judge Alfred W. Agce, when arraigned to plead, that he was in need of a lawyer. The court appointed Attorney Joseph E. Evans and set the hearing for Saturday at 10 o'clock. When brought out of his cell, to be arraigned, the prisoner was asked concerning con-cerning his native state. "I'se a Missouri Mis-souri niggah and I belongs In Tennessee, Tennes-see, whar my dad's fokes live," ho replied re-plied dolefully. "Lawdy, boss," he added, "Jordan sho' am a hard road to trabble." Tho ebony prisoner walked weak-kneed weak-kneed when Chief Deputy Sheriff Charles Pincock assured him tho rope was ready for him. "I sho' is up against it," ho said. nn |