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...weeks, the front-porch gossip around Philadelphia, Miss., was that Neshoba County Sheriff Lawrence Rainey and Deputy Sheriff Cecil Price, a pair of beefy upholders of backwater Southern justice, would soon be indicted by a fed eral grand jury in Biloxi, Miss., investigating civil rights abuses in Mississippi. Sure enough, last week they were...
...murder, which is a state, not a federal, crime. But the jury could look into violations of the victims' civil rights under federal laws. In secret sessions over two weeks, the jurors summoned some 125 witnesses-including FBI men, Philadelphia Negroes, a bootlegger, a missionary Baptist preacher, Sheriff Rainey and a smirking Cecil Price, who appeared to testify with a card on his coat proclaiming, "Regardless of what you have heard or seen about me, I'm innocent...
When the jury handed down indictments late last week, the murders were not mentioned, although the jury is to reconvene Oct. 21, and federal officials made it clear the case is by no means closed. Rainey, Price and three other Neshoba countians, including two Philadelphia city cops, were arraigned on two counts of depriving local Negroes of their rights by "arresting, incarcerating and detaining" them. In one case, Rainey, Price & Co. were accused of "striking, beating and whipping" a Negro, in another of clubbing a Negro with a blunt instrument. The maximum penalty on each count is one year...
...time, attention turned to Sheriff Lawrence Rainey of Neshoba County, where the car was found. Rainey, it was learned, had killed two Negroes in the county in the past four years. Explaining it, he said: "The first had me down choking me, and the second was shooting at me." Rainey still had not joined in the search...
...week's end, there was still no sign of the missing men. Some people shared the suspicion voiced by Neshoba County Sheriff L. A. Rainey: "They're just hiding and trying to cause a lot of bad publicity for this part of the state." But with each passing day, the possibility of a hoax seemed less and less likely. Whatever their fate, whether dead or alive, the case of the three young civil rights workers would reverberate around the U.S. for the rest of this summer and beyond...