The trial of William Dudley Pelley, anti-Semitic Silver Shirt leader, and his associates, Robert C. Summerville and Don D. Kellogg, accused of violations of the North Carolina “blue sky laws,” moved into its final stages in Buncombe County Superior Court here today.
The case was to go to the jury tonight. The trio are charged with unlawful sale of purportedly worthless stock in the Galahad Press in 1932.
The defense completed its case this afternoon and rebuttal began immediately afterwards. Summerville was the last witness placed on the stand by the defense. The State and the defense, however, subsequently each called one witness to the stand in rebuttal.
The trial, which opened on January 7, originally included H. M. Hardwicke as one of the defendants. Hardwicke was cleared of charges last week, however, leaving his three associates in the Galahad Press endeavor to face the accusations without him.
Speculation was rife here tonight as to the probable outcome of the case, whose main interest hinges around Pelley, a former well-known novelist and author of short stories for large national
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