The case of William Dudley Pelley, anti-Semitic Silver Shirt leader, and his two associates, accused of violating the State “blue sky” law by the sale of worthless stock in the Galahad Press, went to the jury late this afternoon.
Today was the twelfth day of the trial.
In the opening argument to the jury Thomas J. Harkins, special state’s counsel, charged that Pelley and his associates knew all the time they were trying to sell stock in the Galahad Press that the firm was utterly insolvent.
Opening for the defense, R. M. Wells hinted at private prosecution in referring to the presence of Harkins and R. R. Williams in the case as special state’s counsel.
He and J. F. Ford, who argued next for the defense, pointed out that advertisements in “Liberation” gave Washington and not the Asheville office of the concern as the place to buy stock and con-
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