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SEVERAL WOUNDED Caledonia Escape Attempt THREE BREAKS IN PERIOD OF WEEK AT PENAL INSTITUTION White Prisoner Dies Wednesday Morning In City Hospital Of Gun-Shot Wounds Suffered In Tuesday’s Attempted Escape A wave of unrest has broken out at Caledonia State Pris on Farm, located in Halifax County, within the last ten days that has caused three riots and “rush” escape attempts, re sulting in the death of a 17-year-old Negro boy inmate of the institution last Friday, and the fatal shooting Tuesday of Louis Pendleton, White man, who died in Roanoke Rapds Hospital at 10:05 A. M'. Wednesday from wounds received in the third “rush” escape attempt within a single week. ihe dead are: Louis Pendleton, white man, who was serving a 6 to 10 year sentence from Cumberland County for mur der. Clarence Stone, 17-year-old For syth Negro youth. Lonnie Taylor, 40-year-old white man serving a 20 to 30 year term from Harnett County, was last seen Tuesday, June 6th when he jumped into the Roanoke River. It is supposed that Taylor drown ed, tho his body has never been found. Last Tuesday’s escape was evi dently carefully planned, but ended fatally for Louis Pendleton, while Stanley Hodges, serving a 14 to 25 year sentence for store-break ing and larceny in Gaston county is surviving from bullet wounds in the chest and abdomen in Roa noke Rapids Hospital. Louis Smith, serving a 7 to 10 year term on a similar charge from Colum bus county, suffered gunshot wounds in the leg. J. B. Owens of Transylvania, Tate Stanly of Onslow and Oliver Ferguson of Rockingham, all serv ing maximum 5-year sentences were the other three prisoners to figure in Tuesday’s break. It was about 9:30 in the morn ing when a squad of prisoners be ing worked by W. C. Whitley, fore man, made a break. One of the ring-leaders yelled “Man Gone Crazy!” This was evidently the signal, agreed upon and being communicated from prisoner to prisoner by the ever-mystifying “grapevine” route that has puzzled many a prison warden. A number of prisoners grappled with Whitley, who was armed with a pistol. Whitley’s guards were standing some distance away, and altho quick to interfere, it was not before several prisoners had jump ed on the foreman with hoes they were using in cleaning up. Whit ley received no wounds, but shot thru the sleeve of his shirt in at tempting to shoot one of the pris oners during the scuffle. Friday/ June 9th, the second “rush” of last week occurred a bout 2:00 P. M. when a squad of 38 prisoners were cleaning up new ground and five colored men made an attempt to escape. Clarence Stone was shot by either guard C. J. Gordon, or L. Count Visitor Of World Exposition ROYALTY VISITS WORLD FAIRlj Count Folke Bernadotte (above),! nephew and representative of the J King of Sweden, shown as guest. of honor at luncheon in Adminls- ' tratlon Building of the 1933 World Fair In Chicago* \ B. Caulder, and in spite of the quick work of the guards, two colored men escaped and are still at large. Stone died two hours later from gunshot wounds. In a graphic word picture of last Friday afternoon’s escape at tempt, before County Coroner W. C. Williams at- the investigation, C. J. Gordon, guard, testified as follows: “We were working about three miles from camp. Capt. W. G. Andrews, foreman, with 38 men. We were pick ing up roots, clearing some land nearly a mile from a thicket. I was standing on a ditch bank at the end of the squad and Caulder (guard) was on the other end, when four men ran to my left. I call ed to them several times to stop. Caulder ran back a round the end and both of us shot about the same time, twice each. Caulder then per sued the men and gained on them rapidly. One man ran a bout 275 yards, staggered and fell. Caulder then followed the other* three, all of whom were caught. After each of us had emptied our guns, a fifth man ran to my right and before I could load my gun he had gotten out of my range. This man escaped. In a few minutes the truck came and the man who was shot was taken to the camp for medical aid.” Caulder s testimony was about the same, and each of the men stated they are employed by the State, armed with double-barrel shot guns and instructed to keep the prisoners and bring them back to camp. Their only means of keeping them is in running them down or shooting them and each stated they used the latter means as a last resort. In the first break, Tuesday, June 6th, Lonnie Taylor, 40-year-old white man serving a 20 to 30 year term for second degree murder from Harnett County, broke away from the squad with which he was working and ran to the edge of Roanoke river and jumped in. That is the last time he has been seen or heard of, and altho an ex haustive search has been made up and down the banks of the river, the only clew to the fugitive the guards and searchers have been able to unearth was the man’s shoes, abandoned near the point where he dived into the muddy waters of the treacherous Roa noke. It is supposed that the Harnett county man drowned, tho there have been no substantial clues to support this fact. “I somehow have a sneaking notion they’ll never solve perpetual motion.” “I don’t believe that for a minute. They’ve solved it in the House and Senate. The House will get a bill ok ayed. Up to the Senate it’s relayed. Then back it’s sent with some revis ing. The House then offers compro mising. The Senate stands pat on its ground. And thus the bill just scoots around like eddies in a storm-tossed ocean. Ana tnat, iriend, is perpetual motion.” The Roanoke Rapids Building & Loan Association is an ex ample of perpetual motion. It will be here paydng good dividends after we are all gone. Roanoke Rapids Building & Loan Assoc. 12 W. Second Street DIAL R-444-1 Many Applications For Secretaryship N. C. Railroad Co. Governor Ehringhaus relates that one man, calling on him, said he did not want much from him, just the appointment as secretary of the N. C. Railroad Co. “It might interest you,’’ the Governor replied, “to know that there have been more applications for that job than any other I have to appoint. D. F. Giles, Marion, now holds the job, from the Gardner administra tion. Judge Wiley G. Barnes, of the Raleigh city court, held it un der Governor McLean. It’s a part time job, with fair remuneration and railroad passes. NOTICE OF SALE By virtue of the authority con tained in a certain deed of trust executed on the 30th day of Dec ember, 1925, by John A. Shaw and Nannie C. Shaw, his wife, to John A. Cutchins and E. A. Matthews, Trustees, of record in the office of the Register of Deeds for Halifax County, North Carolina, in book 365 at page 562, (the latter Trus tee having left the State and be ing unable to execute the trust the undersigned, Julian R. Allsbrook, has been duly substituted in his place and stead by appointment duly made April 26, 1928), default having been made in the condition of said deed of trust, the under signed trustees will on the 27th day of June, 1933 at 11:00 o’clock A. M., at the courthouse door of Halifax County, in the Town of Halifax, North Carolina, offer for sale at public auction to the high est bidder for cash, the following described real property, to-wit: All that certain lot or parcel of land, with the improvements there on, situated, lying and being in Roanoke Rapids Township, Halifax County, North Carolina, fronting 50 feet on the West side of B. Street and running back the same width 227 feet, and being shown and designated as Lot No. 8 in Block D., according to the map or plat of the Massengale property, which said map or plat is duly recorded in the office of the Reg ister of Deeds for Halifax County, North Carolina, in plat book No. 2 at page 152, to which reference is hereby expressly made for greater certainty of description. This notice dated and posted the 24th day of May, 1933. JOHN A. CUTCHINS TRUSTEES and JULIAN R. ALLSBROOK, Substituted Trustee. Immediate action... whether it rains or not. Non-acid. Vital valuable rare elements: iodine, po tassium, calcium, etc., just as Nature put them there. To make absolutely sure of getting “Chilean , say “Chilean” when ordering from your dealer. He can supply both kinds —Champion and Old Style. Fine condition. Lowest Price in its Historyl
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