Word: wilmington
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...earnings from the estate be used to aid the crippled children of Delaware, a research institute and a hospital. For starters, Mills and Dent want the estate to sell off St. Joe Paper Co. and use the income to help the estate-funded Alfred I. du Pont Institute in Wilmington, Del. Says Ball...
...Wilmington. Eric, 16, who had escaped conviction for a previous mugging charge, pleaded guilty to knocking down an 86-year-old woman and stealing her purse. Three months later, the woman is still hospitalized and is not expected to walk again. Eric was released into the custody of his father. Since then, he has been charged with three burglaries. Says Detective James Strawbridge: "He's going to kill somebody some day. and he's still out there...
...hardly his first brush with Southern justice. From 1968 to 1971, while pursuing civil rights work, he had frequently been jailed on such charges as trespassing, driving with a faulty turn signal, aiding fugitives and disrupting public schools. All ended in acquittal or dropping of charges. In the Wilmington case, the appeals were turned down 16 months ago, and the ten were imprisoned, though the white woman was paroled early this year...
After re-examining the key witnesses, the convicts1 lawyers produced a white minister from New Jersey who swore that Chavis had an alibi. The Rev. Eugene Templeton, a former pastor in Wilmington, and his wife Donna both testified that they were elsewhere with Chavis at the time he was allegedly fire-bombing the grocery. The couple left the area a short time later and did not testify at the original trial because, they claimed, they feared arrest or injury...
...Since the major prosecution witnesses have frequently changed their stories, any such order would probably mean speedy release for the prisoners, but Chavis says he has little hope of that. Nor is he confident about an FBI investigation ordered by Attorney General Griffin Bell. The best hope for the Wilmington Ten, he said, lies in marshaling public pressure on the President to urge a North Carolina pardon for them. "We are political prisoners," he says, "and in political-prisoner situations, the public decides the case, not the courts...