Roy Martin a student of the Kansas City, Kan high school was shot and killed at Kerr Park in  that city at 4 o 'clock this afternoon by a negro boy, Gregory by name.  The bullet went through Martin's heart.  Martin and several other high school boys were practicing running on the track in Kerr's Park and were annoyed by several negro boys on a hill near by.  The negro boys made insulting remarks to the white boys and the latter advanced toward them.  Gregory drew a pistol and fired into the crowd of white boys, hitting Martin.  The negro boys fled and none was captured. The dead boy lived at 953 Minnesota Avenue with his mother, Mrs. Emma Martin, the owner of the Home Hotel.

    The murder of Roy Martin, a freshman in the Kansas City, KS.  High School, by Louis Gregory, a negro, at Kerr's park yesterday afternoon, caused a demonstration by  the white pupils at the High school building at Ninth street and Minnesota Avenue in that city between 8 and 9 o'clock this morning.   There are eighty negro pupils regularly attending the high school and when these pupils went to school this morning they were prevented from entering the building by the 700 white pupils.  The building was surrounded by the boy pupils, while the great doorways were blocked by the girls. Every window in the big building was filled with girls

    Out on the streets a crowd of several hundred persons had gathered.  There were negroes as well as white people in the crowd and fifteen or twenty policemen, some of them in citizens clothes, formed a line along the curb between the high school boys and the crowd.

    On the stone steps at the southwest entrance to the building, M. E. Pearson, superintendent of schools, Mayor B. Gilbert, Prof.  W. C. McCrasky, principal of the high school, and several of the men teachers on his staff were assembled.  They realized the gravity of the situation and counseled the boys to moderation.  "It's no use, no negro pupil can enter this building, at least until Roy Martin is buried," the boys declared.

    It was useless to argue with the boys. The 8:30 o'clock bell rang as usual, but nobody paid  any attention to it.
"We are not accusing the negro pupils of the high school with being responsible for Roy Martin's death, but we want to show how we feel about cold blooded murder," one of the boys told a reporter for The Star.

    The greatest demonstration, however, was by the girls.  They formed in lines at the front entrance determined, as they said, not to let a negro inside the building, They did not  want the white boys to go inside either.  The demonstration on the part of the girls came when Prof.  A.A. Brooks, one of the oldest teachers in the school talked to the boys from the front steps about being more careful in their expressions of resentment and conduct towards the negro pupils who were innocent of any crime towards the whites.  This angered some of the hot headed youths and they wanted to pull Prof.  Brooks from the steps.   Besides Prof.  Brooks, other teachers had been doing quiet work and members in the senior class decided they had better go inside the study hall. They started up the steps, but were met by the lines of girls who declared that the seniors stay outside with the other students and help "drive the negroes away" in case any should try to enter the building.

The seniors resorted to football tactics and rushed through the line of girls into the building. The  girls jerked them and stamped their feet and some of them struck at the seniors with their fists.

The action of the seniors in entering the building did much to quiet the feeling among the other students. The professors assured the more radical white scholars that no negro students should enter the building that day.

Some of the citizens in the crowd went among the negro students who were standing in groups on the outside. The negro pupils were advised to go to their homes, and by so doing it was suggested that the trouble would blow over in a few days. Most of them took the advice readily and quietly walked away, Only a few, however, remained, and these withdrew several blocks. The crowd then dispersed.

After that the pupils were grouped together with their teachers  in the classrooms, but the first hour of the school had been lost and many of the pupils were too wrought up to pay much attention to their studies.

Many of the girls who had passed through all of the excitement were now in tears, being unable to longer stand the strain. Prof. McCrasky, principal at the school, went from one room to another. He is well liked by all of the pupils, and when he talked to the boys and girls his words had the effect of quieting them. Still, they were firm in their determination to keep the negro pupils from reentering the school.

In Kansas City, Ks., there has never been a separate school for negro pupils, although movements in that direction have been made repeatedly, but without success. The demonstration today is the first open rupture between white and black pupils.

"The situation is very grave," said Superintendent Pearson at noon today. "We are doing everything to allay this excitement and I think we will succeed." A delegation of negro preachers and lawyers called on Superintendent Pearson. He told them they could help the situation wonderfully by counseling, moderation among the negro people of the city. They agreed with him that that was the thing to do.

Chief of Police Murray of Kansas City, Ks. is prepared to suppress any serious demonstration on the part of either white persons or negroes. The action of the negroes last night around the jail after the negro Louis Gregory had been taken there has caused Chief Murray to issue orders against allowing armed bands of negroes to  congregate on the streets. The white persons who passed the courthouse and county jail yard between 2 and 4 o'clock this morning were insulted by negroes with shotguns and Winchesters, who demanded to know why they were
passing in that direction.

This condition of affairs became so aggravated that Sergeant Hedrick with a squad of police went to the jail yard to drive the negroes away. He was met with armed resistance. About fifty negroes with guns and revolvers drawn defied the officers. Some of the leaders among the negroes will be arrested today if they can be found and charges of felonious assault and resisting officers placed against them.

The cool and deliberate way in which Sergeant Hedrick and other policemen faced the fifty armed negroes gradually drove from the courthouse and jail yards was probably the cause of averting a race riot early this
morning. No negroes will be allowed to congregate around the jail  today and tonight

The negroes were in groups on the streets last night and were insulting to the white people. At Fourth Street and Minnesota Avenue two white men were standing talking. A crowd of negroes came up and demanded to know what they were talking about and used threatening language. The negroes seemed to want trouble.

Chief of Police Murray this morning distributed several Winchester rifles among his men and the city will be closely patrolled by policemen armed with rifles tonight.

The killing of Roy Martin at Kerr's Park was cold blooded. The boy with several other students of the high school, had gone to the race track to exercise running.   R. L. Ward one of the teachers was with them and took a great interest in their sport.

A crowd of fifteen or twenty negroes were standing in the enclosure beside the track, and as the boys passed the judges stand the negroes would jeer them using insulting remarks.

The white boys paid little attention to the negroes until finally Martin, who was captain of the team, told them to stop.   John Alpine, a student, had just made a circuit of the track and at the judges stand the negroes renewed their taunts.  Martin told them to let the boy alone.  Then someone in the crowd of negroes said, "Shoot him." Lewis Gregory then drew a revolver and fired at Martin.   Martin threw up his hands and fell.  He did not speak. The negro kept on firing and the next shot, aimed at Clarence Mook missed.  Another was fired as Mook fell to the ground, but it missed him also.  In the excitement Louis Gregory, the negro who fired the shots, escaped, but he was found by the police last night at the home of a brother.

Dr. D.M.  Shively, coroner of Wyandotte county, Dr. C. M.  Stemen and Dr. P.M. Tracy  made a postmortem examination of the body of Roy Martin this morning at Raymond's Undertaking Rooms, where the body is being prepared for burial.  The bullet from a 38-caliber revolver passed through the heart and ranged upward into the left lung, shattered the right rib and lodged in the muscles behind.

Coroner Shively says no inquest will be held as the negro Gregory admits doing the shooting and for the further reason that the race hatred is so strong just now that trouble is feared

Louis Gregory this morning, in a confession to Oscar Haner, jailer of Wyandotte County, said that he shot at another boy and missing him, hit Martin.  An hour later, in a statement to Dr. D. M. Shively, coroner, Gregory said the shooting was purely accidental.

"I had my hand on the trigger," said Gregory, "and was pointing the pistol towards some boys to drive them back, when someone rushed up behind me and made me jump and I pulled the trigger and shot accidental"

The police of Kansas City.  Ks. arrested two of the negroes this afternoon who took part in the demonstration at the jail last night.  The negroes arrested are W. M. Napper, 826 New Jersey Avenue, and M. L. Williams, 923 Everett Street.  Napper was armed with a rifle and led the crowd of negroes last night.  More arrests will be made.

Louis Gregory, the younger negro, who murdered Roy Martin, the high school boy at  Kerr's  Park, Kansas City, Kan.  last Tuesday afternoon, was this morning charged with murder in a complaint filed before Judge Donoho in the North side City court in that city by James S. Gibbon, county attorney of Wyandotte County. The date for the preliminary hearing has not yet been set, but will probably not be held for several days on account of the race excitement which followed the cold blooded murder.

The trial of Gregory by a jury in the district court, should he be bound over, will not be held until the June term of the court.   He probably will remain in jail until that time.

Complaints were also held in the North side city court charging six negroes with inciting a riot and resisting officers, which is a felony under the Kansas law.  The negroes which surrounded the jail Tuesday night armed with Winchester rifles and revolvers: Philip Scott, W. L. Wilson, Albert Anderson, James Black and Will Cunningham.  All of these were with Napper.  Other Negroes will be arrested today and such a vigorous prosecution made as will probably prevent a repetition of the scene around the county jail Tuesday night.

The better class of Negroes in Kansas City, Kan, have done much to prevent the riot which at one time was threatened.  There was no demonstration of mob violence on the part of the white people towards the murderer of Martin.

The better class of negroes deplore the fact that some of their race took upon themselves to fly to arms and utter insults which in many places would  have caused a race war.

    There is some fear that when the negro students try to enter the high school Monday morning there will be similar trouble to that which occurred yesterday morning when the white boys and girls refused to allow any of  the negroes to  enter the building The feeling among the high school boys and girls seems to be as strong today against the negroes as it was yesterday.  The white students do not agree on the best plan to be pursued.  Some think it would be the proper thing refuse to allow the negroes to enter then the white students should leave the school in a body  and return to their homes and await the development of some plan to provide a separate high school for whites and blacks.  Most of the students favor the latter plan.
 

Many of the citizens will attend the meeting of the board of education in rooms in Carnegie Library  building tonight, when the plans to settle the race differences will be discussed.  It is a question which has been discussed many time by the board of education and the Mercantile club, but financial difficulties and the law have prevented a solution.
 

    There is excitement in Kansas City, Kan., today because of the race troubles resulting from the murder of Roy Martin, a white pupil, by Louis Gregory, a negro.  The situation, however, is still grave and many citizens, white and black, are engaged in a calm discussion as to the best means of remedying the trouble and preventing a further demonstration.  There is a strong sentiment in the city in favor of separate high schools, but under existing laws the board of education is  powerless to provide separate schools.  Many citizens favor the plan of suspending the high school for the balance of the students attempt to enter high school for the balance of the term, as it is feared that should the negro students attempt to enter high school with the white students Monday morning further trouble will occur.

"It would be wrong to attempt to have a mixed school Monday morning," said a business man today who is well acquainted with local conditions.  "The Negroes must not be forced into the schools at this time.  Everything should be done to allay this feeling between the races and the more we force matters the more serious the situation will grow.
 

"While we must uphold the majesty of the law as much as possible, at the same time we must deal with local conditions in such a way as not to bring disgrace on ourselves by precipitating a race war.  Let the white people and the negro work together in trying to solve this problem for the best interests of all concerned."

This view of the situation seemed to prevail among all classes.  Both the negroes and the whites admit that the only way to avoid serious trouble is to close the high school to both whites and blacks for a while longer, at least.

Agitation has been started in Kansas City, Kan., to secure the passage of a special bill by the Kansas Legislature providing for separate high schools for the whites and blacks.  The white people favor the separate high school plan and many of the better class of negroes realize it is the only solution of the racial differences in that city.  The Republicans are the only ones who have yet nominated a full legislative ticket, and this morning each candidate was asked to express himself on the separate school proposition.  Dr. S. S. Glasscock, candidate for representative said: "In my opinion there should be separate schools for the two races.  It becomes more apparent every day.  The more intelligent class of negroes appreciate that fact, and if the majority of the people demonstrate that they want a separate high school, I will introduce a bill in the next legislature making such provisions if I am elected."

James F. Getty, candidate for state senator said: "I don't think it's the proper time to discuss this matter while both sides are very much worked up over the situation.  If I am fortunate enough to be elected to the state senate I shall try to do what the majority of the people want me to do.  If they went a separate school, I shall do my utmost of secure the passage of a law to that effect."

C. K.. Robinette, candidate for representative said "If I am elected to the legislature and the people want such a bill passed, I shall work for it with all concerned and what that is will have to be determined.

The funeral services over the body of Roy Martin will be held at 2 o'clock Sunday at  M. E. Church, South corner of State Avenue and Seventh Street.  The body will be buried in Woodlawn cemetery.  The detailed arrangements for the funeral have not been made.    The students in the Kansas City Kansas High School will probably attend in a body and several of the student's friends and classmates will be selected as pall bearers.  A large floral offering has already been ordered by students and there will be many other evidences of the high esteem in which the young man was held.

                                                         Negro Preacher Arrested

    The Rev. E. T. Green, the negro minister of  the Baptist Church on N. 3rd Street, between State and Nebraska Avenues in Kansas City, Kansas,  was arrested by police in that city yesterday on charges of being one of the leaders in the mob demonstration at the jail Tuesday night.  It is said by the police that the minister not only carried a rifle but made speeches inciting the negroes.  He was locked up on a charge of investigation in the city jail.
 

 The Kansas City Kansas High School reopened this morning without a demonstration on the part of the white students against the negroes.  From 8:00 this morning until the ringing of the second bell at 8:30m the white students and the negroes went up the steps to the assembly hall together.  The white and black students ignored each other, but there was no show of feeling on the part of either race.

    A crowd of people, white and black stood on the sidewalks on Minnesota Avenue, State Avenue,  and  Ninth Street to see what was going on, but the police were on hand to prevent any disturbance.

    About 8 o'clock a crowd of students began collecting on the northeast corner of  Ninth and Minnesota Avenue, just across from the high school building.  By 8:15, there were probably 200 students in the crowd.  They were orderly and were discussing the best plan to pursue.  Some declared that they would not enter the school with the negroes.  Others argued that there were only six weeks more of school and as they had endured negroes in the high schools for several years, they ought to be able to stay with them six weeks longer.  The great majority of the boys seemed to take that view of it, and after the  ringing the first bell, began to enter the school building.  At 8:30 only about twenty-five boys and perhaps a dozen girls remained outside.  However, many white pupils returned home when they saw the negroes entering into the building, and many did not leave home fearing trouble.

    To the senior class of about seventy-five students who are due to graduate within four weeks, much credit is due for an amicable settlement for the race troubles.   They are just at the point where they are completing their high school  education, and any show of rebellion or demonstration on their part would deprive them of the honors of the graduation exercise and the much sought "sheep skin."  Then there were a hundred juniors who within the next few weeks will have to make their "points" before they are admitted into the senior class next year.
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    Many parents accompanied their children to the school and compelled them to enter.

    Among the first to conduct his boy into the building was Colonel Charles Wood, who in 1883 left West Point because of a negro student there.  Colonel Wood was adjutant general in Tennessee under  ex-Governor Taylor and commanded a volunteer regiment during the Spanish American War.  He is a Southerner and went to Kansas City, Kansas from the South in March.  He is part owner of the T. C. Creel lumber company,  His son is 13 years old and had only been in the High School three weeks.  Colonel Wood said his son would finish the term.

    Several special officers and detectives were on duty early to prevent any demonstration on the part of white students.  Their services were not needed except to take charge of a drunken man who was looking for trouble.  H. Rom, who lives at 1045 Barnett Avenue, while under the influence of whiskey, joined the crowd of boys shortly after 8 o'clock and began to talk about whipping the first negro who dared to enter the high school grounds.  He had not proceeded very far in his speech when Mayor T. B. Gilbert who was present, ordered an officer to take him to the station.  The man was armed with a bottle of whiskey.

    The students who remained on the grounds outside the building after school began said they did it because they expected many of the students who had gone into the building would refuse to recite in their classes with negroes and walk out. In this they were mistaken as everything moved along smoothly on the inside and there was not the slightest show of rebellion.

The Rev. R. T. Green, William Alexander, William Guthrie, M.L. Wilson, and W. M. Knapper were each fined $50 in Police court this morning on a charge of  participating in the armed demonstration around the county jail last Tuesday night  just after Louis Gregory, the young negro murderer of Roy Martin, the Kansas City, Kansas high school boy, was arrested.  Each pleaded guilty.  For the offense a city ordinance provides for a fine not to exceed $100.

    In assessing the fine, Police Judge Trembly said the demonstration on the part of the negroes had done more to arouse the bitter feelings between the blacks and the whites than the murder itself.

    William Cunningham, and James Black, negroes,  were fined $100 and $75 respectively on a charge of carrying concealed weapons and refusing to submit to arrest on Wednesday night when the officers were guarding against another armed demonstration.

Louis Gregory, the negro who on April 12 shot and killed Roy Martin, a high school boy, at Kerr Park, was arraigned  this morning before Judge  M. M. Donoho in the North City Court of Kansas City, Kansas. His attorney,  C. D. Sharp, waived a preliminary hearing on the charge of murder in the first degree and Gregory was held to the District Court for trial at the June term.

    The arraignment of Gregory was delayed until today because of the race feeling which ran so high in the murder.   He was brought to the courtroom by Jailer Oscar Hahner.  The negro was badly frightened and trembled as he stood before the judge.  He was returned to the jail to be held without bond.

                                           Roy Martin's Slayer in Court

    Louis Gregory, the young negro who on April 12 murdered Roy Martin, a Kansas City, Kansas High School boy at Kerr Park, just west of that city was arraigned in the district court of that city this morning on a charge of murder in the first degree.   C. D. Sharp, the attorney appointed by Judge McCabe Moore of the district court to defend Gregory asked that a plea of not guilty be entered.  After being arrested on the day of the shooting, Gregory confessed to shooting young Martin.

                                                    Saw  Martin Shot Down
                                         Witnesses Tell of Murder of Kansas City, Kansas School Boy
                                                    Gregory, the Negro, Was Pointed Out Today in Court

The hearing of testimony in the case of Louis Gregory, the negro boy who is charged with the murder of Roy Martin, a Kansas City, Kansas High School boy, at Kerr Park in that city, April 12, began in the district court of Kansas City, Kansas this morning.  Two witnesses gave accounts of the shooting and pointed out Louis Gregory  as the boy who shot Martin.  Both said he took deliberate aim at Martin and fired.  A large crowd of both negroes and whites filled the court room. Many high school boys were present.

The first witness called was Allen M. Brooks of 1936 N. Sixteenth Street, a carpenter who was working at Kerr's Park the day of the murder.  He described the shooting and pointed out Louis Gregory as the one who fired the shot.  Mr. Brooks said the negro boys were annoying the white boys some of whom were running on the race track.

    "I saw Roy Martin, the boy who was killed, step on the terrace by the judge's stand and ask the boys to stop.  The negroes then started across the track  and I heard Martin begging them to leave him alone.  Then I heard some of the Negro boys say, "shoot him" and one of the negro boys reached into his pocket, drew a revolver from inside his pocket  and shot.

    "Who fired the shot?" asked Attorney John Hale, who is aiding in the prosecution.

    "That boy there," replied Brooks pointing with his umbrella at Louis Gregory.

    Gregory showed no sign of emotion and Brooks continued.

    "Martin then fell and the negro boy, still holding the smoking revolver, ran from the park.  I hastened to where Martin lay.  As I reached him he gasped two or three times and then died."

    Under cross examination by Dorsey Green, Gregory' attorney,  Mr. Brooks did not depart from his story of the shooting.

    The state next introduced a plat of Kerr's Park showing where the shooting took place. J. L.. Lasky who laid out the park was introduced to testify to the correctness of the map.

Wallace Hickman of 528 South Harrison Street of Kansas City, MO the next witness gave his account of the shooting which bore out the testimony given by Brooks.  Hickman rose from the witness chair and showed how Gregory drew the revolver and fired.  He testified that after killing Martin, Gregory turned and fired at a boy, Mook by name,.

The state placed Dr. D.M.  Shively,  Dr. C. M.  Stemen and Dr. P.M. Tracy who held the autopsy on Roy Martin on the stand.  They testified as to the path of the bullet and that the wound caused his death.

John Carlson, a High School student testified also, telling practically the same story as the other witnesses.  The state then rested its case.  The defense began its presentation at 2 o'clock in the afternoon.
 
 

     Louis Gregory, the Negro boy who is on trial in the district court in Kansas City, Ks. for the murder of Roy Martin a Kansas City, KS high school boy at Kerr’s Park near the city April 12, was the principal witness in his own defense yesterday afternoon.  Gregory said the shooting was accidental.  With one exception, all the witnesses for the defense were Negro boys.  The case will probably reach the jury today.

A large crowd gathered in the courtroom, people standing in the aisles all afternoon to hear what the witness said.  Gregory’s testimony was given in clear voice and only when he mentioned Roy Martin’s name did his voice tremble.

“ I had known Martin three years,” he said, “ and we had had no quarrel. The night before the shooting I was attacked by two white men as I came home from work. I thought one of them had a revolver and feared they would attack me again.  Before I went to work, I stole out my father’s revolver, which was kept hid in the house.  I did not go right home from work but I stopped at the Lincoln school. There I decided to go with the boys to play baseball.”

“ At the park we were watching the white boys run foot races, some of the Negro boys were laughing at them. Roy Martin came out and calling the Negro boys a name ordering them to stop making fun of the boys. I said, “ You don’t mean that for me do you?” Martin said, 'I mean it for all of you' and put one hand back into his hip pocket. I thought he had a revolver and was going to pull it.  I pulled my revolver out of my inside coat pocket with my left hand, changed it to my right hand and as I did so someone pushed my arm, causing me to tighten my grip on the trigger and the weapon was discharged."

 “ I did not know what had happened. I saw the white boys run toward me and heard somebody cry, 'get him,' I turned and fired again, but not at anyone.  When I was outside the race track I took off my hat and ran.”

Gregory said he is 17 years old and lives with his father, Norman Gregory, at 825 State Ave in Kansas City, KS.  He is a butcher’s helper at the Swift packing house.

      In his outline of the defense to the jury,  I.F. Bradley who is one of Gregory’s attorneys, said they would show the shooting was accidental and that Gregory did not go  to the park intending to shoot Martin.   For the purpose of proving this, the defense called three negro boys, Albert Royster of 1101 North Tenth Street, Horace Ward of 920 Everett Ave, and Theodore Harvey of 934 Everett Ave. These boys agreed that Martin called the negro boys names, but testified when he drew the revolver and fired, no one was with in five feet of him.  Benjamin brown another negro boy said on cross-examination the boys had all talked over the case together, but denied they had agreed on any plan of defense.

       The only white man called by the defense was E.E. Thomas of 904 Nebraska Ave, Kansas City, Ks.  He had said Gregory worked for him and he had found him honest and industrious.

     While Albert Royster was being examined, he was asked to take the revolver with which Martin was shot and show how the shooting occurred.  He handled the weapon so carelessly that Judge Moore said:

"Take the cylinder out of that ."

" It isn't loaded," said one of the attorneys.

" Those are the kind of revolvers that shoot people," replied the judge.

The cylinder was removed and the examination continued.

     After the defense had closed its case, the state began its testimony in rebuttal. Several witnesses will be examined to show that Gregory deliberately aimed the revolver at Martin. Clyde Taylor was the first witness to testify to this. Court adjourned at the close of his testimony.

     Louis Gregory, the negro boy who shot and killed Roy Martin a Kansas City KS High School boy at Kerr's Park near the city April 12 was yesterday found guilty of murder in the first degree by a jury in the district court in Kansas City, Ks. The punishment is death by hanging.  The governor is required to not sign the death warrant until a year has elapsed, however, and as this is never done the sentence means life imprisonment.   Gregory’s eyes filed with tears when the verdict was read to him.  He is the first minor to be convicted of murder in the first degree in Wyandotte County.

     The case went to the jury at 11:30 o’clock yesterday morning but it was 4:10 o’clock in the afternoon before a verdict was reached.  Some of the jurors on the first ballot favored manslaughter and other murder in the second degree.  None favored acquittal.  Six ballots were taken before a verdict was agreed upon.  When the jury filed into the box Gregory, who sat by his mother and sister just inside the railing, showed little sign of emotion.

“ Have we reached a verdict?” asked Judge Moore.

“ We have,” replied J.R Ritchie, foreman of the jury, as he handed the verdict to he clerk who read:

“ We the jury find the defendant guilty of murder in the first degree.”

 Gregory was taken to the county jail and locked in a cell.  He said to Oscar Haner the jailer:

“ It’s a pretty tough sentence and I guess it was because I am a negro they treated me that way, but I’ll try to make the best of it.  Maybe it won’t be as hard as it seems.”

He then lay down that evening on his cot and said nothing more all evening.

 A crowd, composed of both negro and whites, filled the courtroom when the verdict was read but there was no sign of a demonstration of any kind. The formal sentence of the court not pronounced. Application for a new trial will be made.

 The crime for which Gregory was convicted was about 4 o’clock in the afternoon of April 12.  A number of white boys were participating in foot racing at Kerr’s park when some negro boys began to interfere with them.  Roy Martin, who was the captain of the High School track team to which the white boys belonged, stepped out and asked the negro boys to leave the white boys alone. Gregory, according to the testimony of the white boys, then stepped up to Martin and drawing a revolver shot him.  Gregory declared the shooting was accidental.

The murder caused intense feeling in Kansas City, Ks, and for the several nights special details of police were kept on duty and the high school, where both negro's and white attended, was closed for a week.
 
 

    The case of Louis Gregory, the negro boy convicted of murder in the first degree in the district court in Kansas City, Kas. yesterday afternoon, will not be appealed to the supreme court.

    A motion  for a new trial will be filed at once, and in case it is overruled by Judge Moore, the negro will serve a life sentence in the penitentiary.

    During the whole trial, the court made only two rulings on the admission of testimony.  One objection was made by the defense and sustained, and the other objection by the state.  In appealing a criminal case to the supreme court in Kansas the defendant has to give security for costs.  Gregory's parent are not able to secure the costs necessary to maintain an appeal.

    Gregory murdered Roy Martin, a Kansas City Kas. High SChool boy, on April 12, at Kerr park, west of that city.