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2 Q. A THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION. Friday. Mar. 1976 "DEFENDANT GIVES ALIBI ard Takes Stand in Hacking Murders SPECIAL WAREHOUSE CLEARANCE saw him in the store the day of the murders, but only last IQ) He admitted to having stolen and possessed the scimitar supposedly used, and to having been fired by Surgalski at Vulcan Waterproofing after some disagreements.

He also acknowledged that certain circumstantial evidence offered by the prosecution did belong to him. But he repeatedly denied planning or committing the murders, and in the end made the statement to the jury, which Lang claimed was a surprise to him. The trial will continue Ward at the time the murders were supposedly committed-midday but he could not pinpoint the exact date. Another witness was Walter Searcy, who was escorted into the courtroom wearing the garb of a state prison inmate. Searcy, who said he was serving 15 years for armed robbery, testified that he had worked at the clothing store into which Ward came.

Questioned by Ward's attorney, Assistant Public Defender Ed Lang, Searcy said he had read of Ward's plight, thought he could testify he Sunday changed his mind. Lang got a positive answer when he asked Searcy if he had not wanted to testify because of "apprehension and fear," but the exchange was ruled improper and struck from the record. As he left, the courtroom, Searcy whispered to Ward, "Good luck, boy." Ward himself, after direct examination by Lang, answered prosecutor Leipold's questions in a calm but subdued manner. ARTIST AGENT TO SELL 00,000 WAREHOUSE INVENTORY DIRECT TO THE PUBLIC THIS WEEKEND ONLY 1973, were committed with a heavy Indian scimitar. Ward was convicted of the crimes in October, 1973, and given two life sentences.

The Georgia Supreme Court overturned them and granted Ward a retrial on the basis of an improper charge to the previous jury regarding Ward's alibi That alibi was presented in detail to the jury Thursday. The day before, the prosecution had presented a pile of circumstantial evidence purportedly linking Ward to the crime, highlighted by a bloody towel containing two One showed "significant microscopic similarities" to Ward's own hair, and the other resembled Surgalski's. Ward's alibi is that he was picking up some clothes and getting tailoring work done at the time the crimes were committed. The manager of a clothing store testified Thursday that he saw Ward in his downtown business the day of the crime, but prosecutor Calvin Leipold caused him to admit that he could not pinpoint the time. Later, a tailor across the street swore that he saw By JAY LAWRENCE A relaxed Edward Ward on trial for his life a second time on charges of killing two persons with a scimitar, took the stand for over an hour in his own defense Thursday and at the end made a plea to the jury to believe him.

"Ladies and gentlemen of the jury," stated Ward, "I know absolutely nothing about these crimes. "I feel like if I keep on standing up and telling the truth, then sooner or later someone's going to stand up with me." The jury may be a key to Ward's fate this time. The 22-year-old black man is being tried by a panel equally balanced: six whites, six blacks, six men, six women. The jury is young, too, with several men and women in their early 20s. Ward is accused of hacking to death 31-year-old Edward Surgalski, an executive for the Vulcan Waterproofing and Surgalski, 24-year-old secretary, Sharynn Denise.

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