CRIME: Mountain Murder

"I went up to Wise that night along with my cousin and not meaning no harm. Along in the evening Raymond Meade came along and said he would give me a lift back to my house in the Pound. There was some more people in the car with him but we let them out down the road a piece and Raymond Meade says to me: 'Let's go to the Little Ritz and get something to eat.' "

A black-haired, 21-year-old schoolmarm named Edith Maxwell testified last week in the courthouse at Wise, Va. that...

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