THK HUUNSWICK BEACON. Thursday, December 17, 1987—Page 11-A
SBI Probe Into Alleged Beating Underway In Columbus, Brunswick
IN AriAii;te
BY RAHN ADAMS
SBI agents last week began an in
dependent investigation in Columbus
and Brunswick counties to determine
how an Ash man was injured almost
seven weeks ago.
Supervising Agent Dave Marshall
of Jacksonville said Monday the SBI
probe into the alleged beating of Ken
neth Marlowe is expected to last
“several weeks at the minimum.”
Marlowe told lawmen that he was
beaten in the Columbus County com
munity of Crusoe Island on Oct. 31 by
a gang of white men.
The 37-year-old black man suffered
a broken jaw and cut lip, and lost all
but four of his teeth. He was released
from New Hanover Memorial
Hospital in Wilmington on Nov. 5.
However, a preliminary investiga
tion by the Columbus County
Sheriff’s Department determined
that Marlowe's injuries were suf
fered in a pickup truck wreck the
same night of the alleged beating.
Marlowe was a passenger in the
pickup owned by W.C, Clewis of
Crusoe Island. The wreck happened
just inside Brunswick County off N.C.
130 when the pickup struck a ditch,
then traveled 50 j’ards across a field
before striking another ditch,
lawmen said.
Columbus County Sheriff’s Capt.
George Dudley said his department
is sticking with its theory that
Marlowe was injured in the wreck.
“We haven’t changed our position,
but again I don’t want to talk about
our investigation.” Dudley said last
Thursday. "We have asked that the
SBI take this case, which they are.”
Dudley indicated that his depart
ment requested the SBI probe due to
the Marlowe family’s claim that
lawmen “intimidated” Kenneth
Marlowe into signing a statement
saying he didn’t remember being
beaten.
"Obviously you’re aware that the
Marlowes aren’t happy with our in
vestigation,” Dudley said. "That’s
basically among the reasons we’ve
asked the SBI to investigate it.”
Noting that the case was still open,
Dudley said last Thursday he was
awaiting test results from teeth, skin
and hair samples that were sent to
the FBI laboratory in Washington.
Seven of Marlowe’s teeth were
found inside the truck. Particles of
teeth and a skin sample containing
what appeared to be a hair from
Marlowe’s mustache were removed
from the truck’s dashboard.
Dudley said last Thursday that no
charges had been filed, although his
department has suspects in the case.
Marlowe's brother confirmed last
week that the Marlowe family was
unhappy with the sheriff’s depart
ment’s investigation.
“We welcome the SBI here,
because the way the investigation
was going before they intervened, it
wasn’t much of an investigation at
all,” I,avcrn Marlowe of Cedar
Grove .said last Thursday.
He added that his brother had been
advised by an attorney not to com
ment on the case publicly.
"He (Kenneth) was intimidated
(into signing the statement),”
.Marlowe said. “There was no
physical force, but Capt. Dudley said
he would have Det. Roy Norris (the
invc.stigating officer) lock him up for
causing a racial disturbance. He
(Dudley) did not want the NAACP in
volved.”
I.avern Marlowe also said his
brother was treated like a suspect,
not the victim, because he was asked
to lake a polygraph test on Nov. 19.
Kenneth Marlowe refused the
polygraph test after sheriff’s depart
ment investigators “confronted
(him) with the evidence we had,”
Dudley .said last month.
Jessie Bryant, president of the
Cedar Grove Chapter of the NAACP,
last Thursday declined to comment
on his organization’s involvement in
the case.
“I don't know what to say until I
see what they’ve done,” Bryant add
ed, referring to the SBI investigation.
Raleigh attorney Amos IJnk said
last Thursday he had agreed to
“represent Kenneth Marlowe’s in
terests.” Link said he began an in
Board Reaches No Decision On Superintendent
Brunswick County Board of Educa
tion members met for approximately
two hours Monday night in a con
tinuation of their Dec. 7 meeting.
Much of the two-hour meeting was
devoted to discus.sion of personnel as
board members continued their
review of candidates for the
superintendency.
No decision was made.
The board had expressed a goal of
selecting a successor to former
Superintendent Gene Yarbrough by
the end of the calendar.
Board member Dorothy Worth of
Shallotte said Tuesday, the board
“hopefully” would do so, adding,
“but we don’t know.”
Policy Proposed
Members gave first reading to a
travel policy proposed by member
Doug Baxley that will be voted on at
the board’s Jan. 11 meeting. It calls
for all travel by board members and
administrative staff to be reviewed
and approved in advance by the
board. With the system “tightening
its belt” in other areas. Interim
Superintendent Jack Kaufhold later
explained, it was felt travel would
also be a place to check spending.
Under current policy, for instance,
any board member who so desired
could attend an upcoming National
School Boards Association con
ference in New Orleans, while Bax
ley has proposed sending perhaps
just one.
Other Business
In other business, the board:
•Heard a construction report from
Bill Turner, assistant to the
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dependent investigation of his own by
interviewing Marlowe Dec. 5.
SBI Deputy Director Charles Dunn
said Friday that his office requested
additional information after reading
media accounts of the matter. His of
fice also received “some calls” on it.
he said, although he didn’t know who
had contacted his office about the
Marlowe case.
.'Vlarshall said !Vlonday that two
agents were assigned to the in
vestigation and tlud tliey were “star
ting from the beginning ... to follow
up on all the leads."
He said agents were attempting to
interview everyone involved in the
case, including doctors and dentists
who treated Marlowe and members
of the Brunswick County Sheriff’s
Department who initially in
vestigated the incident before turn
ing the case over to Columbus County
authorities.
superintendent, and also a proposal
to cut a straight road through the
county government complex to the
school garage. Board members sug
gested such a road be hard surfaced,
not gravel, with Turner to do further
research and report at the Jan. 11
meeting.
•Continued, briefly, a discussion of
the proposed 10-year plan to be sub
mitted to the N.C. Department of
Public Instruction by Jan. 1, with
staff noting again, as at the Dec. 7
session, that the current list is in only
rough priority order and that it can
be realigned or amended as needed.
Most members agreed that comple
tion of classroom space should
precede construction of a new ad
ministrative facility.
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