...Aiken, S.C., during the city's 1969 race riots. The four were among 10 people, including former York Mayor Charlie Robertson, who were charged with murder in the killing of Lillie Belle Allen on July 21, 1969. Robertson, a city police...
...city's 1969 race riots. An all-white jury began deliberating the case Thursday night against 68-year-old Charlie Robertson, a policeman who went on to become York's two-term mayor, and two men who prosecutors say were members of white...
...Carolina black woman during the city's 1969 race riots. The men were among 10 people, including former York Mayor Charlie Robertson, who have been charged with murder in the killing of Lillie Belle Allen of Aiken. Mr. Robertson, a city police...
...the Evans plastic surgeon said Tuesday upon returning from five days in Louisiana. He and Augusta businessmen Charlie Robertson and Andy Jones left Thursday with three doctors from Fayetteville, N.C. They returned in a plane donated by Joe...
...organize and incite them. While police incitement has been alleged before - one of the 10 defendants, former Mayor Charlie Robertson, was a police officer in 1969 and is accused of handing out ammunition and encouraging white gang members to shoot...
...part in the ambush slaying of a young black woman from South Carolina during a 1969 race riot. Standing trial are Charlie Robertson, a policeman at the time of the riots who went on to become mayor, and two men who prosecutors say were members...
...positive response to the judge's question about whether they had heard anything about the case. When then-Mayor Charlie Robertson was arrested last year, he was led out of his office in handcuffs. None stood when Judge John C. Uhler asked whether...
...last year that he shot at the victim's car, a witness testified Friday. Arthur Messersmith said then-Officer Charlie Robertson, who later became mayor, gave the bullets to Rick Knouse, who pleaded guilty in August to conspiracy to commit...
...three men charged with killing a young black South Carolina woman during a 1969 race riot. One of the officers, Charlie Robertson, 68, is charged with murder along with two other men who, prosecutors say, were members of the white gangs that...
...former mayor has only spoken up to say he is "willing" to testify. The towering, white-haired 68-year-old Charlie Robertson has not said anything since the trial began, on his attorneys' advice. Instead he looms beside his attorneys during...
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