• few milee
»
air. J M.
Ha
that when he «u a child ha
■ it <u about 1841, ha nnwh
hat hi* people all wu»t to tha
at RockfonL He hae the fat
at tha
taU tha story in after years. Ha *agra
that a white man named Lewie Fork
Hill, tha napo waa knows aa "Free
Hard Hill", becaoae ha waa a fraa
nsfru. never having bean a (lava. Ha
killed Forkner with a little pan knife
tha Made of which waa broken, by I
■tabbing him. For tha crime ha paid1
with his life on tha scaffold at old'
Boehford juet before tha county Mat
waa moved from there to Dahaoa.
We published tha facta about the
of Chariaa Stokes, and Mr.1
says that ha distinctly re-'
i bearing hia father tall about tha
haactef of a wan at Rockford by the
naasa of Rash, but ha doaa not
her the facts about this
m la mm work that the county
M need to do tha» would an
i of our citiiana from tt wwhw
when you come to think of it,
a man naeda to be saved from
, for it ia aaay for a man to
hia own worat anamy. Down
la tfca country a f«w mile* eaat of this
city live some young man, aoaaa of
them with young familiaa, who have
fmikt aach othar until thay hawa
bscams notorious. They have bean la,
the county courta hare at Mount Airy
and at Dobaon and invariably thay
have been able to ahow that thay are j
hard working young farmers with,
good connections. In that way thay,
have usually been let off with light,
isar.tancas, the courta no doubt believ
ing that the young men would not be
entangled again. But this diapoaition
to fight each other has gone to that
length that it puta young men in bad
lisht to have to answer again for the
sine charge. Not long ago one of
these young men waa let off with a
suspended road sentence with the
promise that ha would go back home
sad avoid further trouble. Now they
tall how he has been again entangled
and how be haa left the country and
bow hia wife ia closing up hia business
and preparing to follow him. We hear
of another young maa who haa boao
caught in some suspected violation
aad haa left the county.
The latest affair that thia aaeticn
>aa developed waa pulled off laat Sun
day afternoon on the road to PUot
lfeunts in when three young men ia
eae automobile aad threa ia another
met aa the road aad quarreled. After
a tfcae they cam# to blown, aad for aa
hear, with rocks and sticks aad bara
hands they triad to devour aach othar
aa brute beasts. They would fight far
aad then tike t
i they would go at aach ithsi
i aa we said above, aa
i trying to injure
1b aay way thay i
mm tfca fight,
to play afe by net
Aad ao thay fought
_ > kited, far ha waa
pat eat of the fight by a heavy Wear
aa the top of the head with a reek.
Iter carried hka to a doctor aa bleody
aa if ha had haaa hatoharad far salt.
With groaaa and appearing to be ia
aa aha eat, dying i iif IIHsa ha waa car
ried away. Another of the yaaag aaea
gat hia etothca almost eat frosn his
body, though he escaped any aarioaa
injury.
Thay toll aa that noma of thaaa
faod brSefiTor. and to
again Ia I'erfs i \ n/1 i i
CI yd* Stack waa taxed with the
Mrt, HJO far wp—Hmg.
3. Sanford Chilton and Dto Law la
OTfaU ai
ta pay tha
on in which thay wai
'ighting.
Tha policemen rounded op a bunch
>f eight negroes engaged in gambl
ng gam* in a iter* building on Nead
nore • tract. Thay wara playing for
-athar larga stakes, and mom of than
-lain to hara loot several dollar*,
rhay wara made to pay tha coatj
mounting to about $10.00 aach.
A story of human intaraat
irought out at the eesekm of die court
hat strikingly illuatrataa tha awk
irard positions that poor aaortala
rftan entangle thwiilraa in. Ta nee
he namae of the partiaa would da a*
rood and would add nothing to the
rain* at the itory.
A week • nicely dieaaed woman
ame to town from Winaton and aaid
■ha waa her* to visit a friend, bat
if tar arriving her* aha waa not able
jo locate tha friend and aa
i local hotel, hot failed to
ifter securing a room. The apme day
k citizen came to town from Winaton
ind juat happened to ant up with tha j
ady who happened ta ha an aid friend;
if hia. He claimed to be a mechanic
ind to be her* on business. Together
hay rod* about th* town and took in
he aighta and later in th* day the
nan registered at the aame hotel and
'or soma cause registered under aa
tssumed name. Now "murder will,
rat" and in some way the pal ice got
rind of the two visitors and somebody I
lappened to know that both th* am
ind th* woman war* known hi the
>olic* cirdaa in the town where they
lave lived. About threa o'clock th*
tight they war* here the police riait.
id th* room where the wnaaan waa
■pending the night at the hotel and
rreatly to the embarrassment of all
larties the man in the cast was there.
With this woman waa a pretty little
rirl who waa hi the ream with her and
hey claimed to be spending th* mk
ng at a game *f
'Hands. Bat th* polic*
'i*d with th
-eetad them oa th* charge of
ing a roam at a hotel far
i husband tiring it Kaloigh and had
visiting har pooplo for a tin* at
Whan aha found haraatf ia
tho hands of a cold-bloodod aat of
rfficers and the charge • liars ona
•ha boca»s aa humble aa a
lag and baggad so hard to ha
!o go back to har huabaad that aha
lot on tha narrsa of tha officers wha
r to taara on har ward that
of *26. On this
•aa allowed to laara town, and
ad by wtra as quick ss aha got
Bat tha man waa loekad ay hi Jaft
it tha taara hall and thara I
ihad. if langnithad is tha a
ha flfi allowed Jadgs TilWy to
lava town. It took six days
tafora ho eoald gat a htaring
his Una ha triad to Mrs ssaaa of
>eys about tha Jafl to boy Mas a
aw and offorad thee* a dollar ta got
tiss one. IV boys tkBsd ta fell for It
nt told tho police wha hopt a striet
natch oa hist after that. Whoa hatad
nto court tho fsttaw appeared as a
*wyar. Ha had sonsa enough to soo
.Ltitu
REVIVAL MRTING AT
M CHURCH.
Tki revival ■illhl which
Sunday at the Frienda
In intereet and att—danra with
it well known her*
hi* praeeatation of
roapal truth* i* at once dear, lacteal.
Mid forceful, and hla aarmona ara
■tronc entertaining and gnppmg. Ha
la aMy aaaiatad by lav. John Pannar
_ _ l«
training a flaa choir and hte aoia sing
ing ia already reaching and touching
many haarta. The public I* cordially
invitad to attend all eerricaa.
i
\Wo«out Ate old
a #
mmgs you Are so
1 Vim) of and comc
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