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---Vernon Edkor Whitt.*, Marvin Will,.,,, Sett, WllUnm H Cnn.p, Jr, Bob.* 1E M„. B BW Orore, Wo.drntt WWMd j^r.^T^E Slln hSTJoseph ^ Crouch. Doric U Hnrper. Brntoe W. Book, Boot B Northlngtn, Ei«ene BnoU Blover, Wlllhuri C. Mj»«r ss& r^sn^wSbTu^ - Harris Shearin. ___ "~ ———— NEGRO IS GIVEN LIFE TERM Allowed to Plead Guilty to Accessory Before the Fact in Slaying of War Veteran William E. Moody, 21-year-old negro, who went on trial yesterday afternoon in Halifax County Superior Court, charged with the murder of Jonas Hyman, Jr., 23-year-old Scotland Neck war veteran, was allowed by Judge Burgwyn to plead guilty this morning to the charge of “accessory before the fact.” The negro was sentenced to life imprisonment. Deputy Sheriffs J. A. House and J. Bracy left with Moody immediately after wards for Raleigh where he will be confined. Four days after he is alleged to have shot and killed Jonas Hy man., Jr., 23-year-old Scotland Keck World War veteran, William E. Moody, 21-year-old negro, went on trial yesterday in Halifax County Superior Court charged with murder in the first degree. The state rested its case in the afternoon, and Judge W. H. S. Burg'vyn overruled a defense mo tion for a verdict in a lesser de gree, since it was contended there was no evidence presented prov ing the crime was of first degree. Solicitor Ernest Tyler prosecut ed the case and the negro was defended by court-appointed at torneys, D. Mac Johnson of En field, and Lunsford Crew of Roa noke Rapids. Young Hyman was shot and killed, allegedly by Moody, when he and Lonnie Bryant* Scotland Neck electrician, were wiring the farm tenant home of Moody’s par ents, five miles from Scotland Ne-’k last Saturday afternoon. Bryant fled for his life and sum moned officers who captured the Negro. Lonnie Bryant testified that the Negro fired a shotgun at short range and without provocation at Hyman, killing him instantly. He sa:d neither he nor Hyman had had any trouble with the Negro and neither had ever seen him be fore. He said he ran when the Negro appeared to be reloading his gun after killing Hyman and he got behind the home. The Negro came around the house and he heard him ask a Negro girl “where’s the other one, I want to get him, too.” Then Bryant testified he fled the scene to get help. Sephas Banks, Negro, who was in the house when the shooting took place testified he crawled un der the bed when he heard the report of the gun. While hiding, he testified, be heard Moody ask the Negro girl, “where’s the other one.” Moody was taken into custody by sheriff’s deputies shortly aftei the shooting. He was first lodged in the county jail at Halifax, bui was later carried to an undisclos ed jail for safekeeping. The shooting apparently wai without provocation, officers re ported. Young Hyman, who hac been employed as an electriciar since his discharge from the Army following two years of service* had gone to the farm of Georgi Davis, about five miles from here it . 1... to wire a tenant house in whicifc Moody lived with his parents. Bryant reported that they began their work on the outside of th© house, and were engaged in the preliminary work when they saw the Negro with a shotgun. They asked him what he was going to shoot, and he said he was going after a squirrel. They then con tinued their work, and a few min utes later, Bryant said, the Negro came around the corner of the house. Bryant said he heard a shot, and Hyman, Who was about nine feet from him connecting a wire, fell to the ground, dying al most instantly from a severed jugular vein. The Negro was about 25 feet away, Bryant said, and was slip ping another shell in his shotgun. Bryant then ran through the house and down the farm road to the highway, leaving his automo bile. He went to the nearest farm house and telephoned Scotland Neck for Deputy Sheriff Dick Bracy, who immediately went to the scene with Deputy Sheriff Al bert House of Hobgood and two or three other men. When they ar rived Hyman’s body had been moved and subsequently was found about 150 yards away in a peanut patch adjoining a woods area, where the Negro is thought to have dragged it. The deputies searched the house and nearby area, and found the Negro’s gun. After a short time a man was seen heading down a road in the woods and Bryant identified him as the Negro. ■When captured Moody had an other shotgun shell in his pocket. The Negro’s only explanation, offi cers said, was that he killed the man because he had been meddling with him. Funeral services for Hyman were conducted Monday afternoon at 4 o’clock from the Scotland Neck Baptist Church by the Rev. W. E. Goode, former pastor, and the Rev. Douglas M. Branch, pas tor of the Scotland Neck Baptist Church. Interment was in the church cemetery. Hyman, a member of the Scot land Neck Baptist Church, is sur vived by his mother, Mrs. Mollie ; Hyman; two brothers, Alton Hy man of Fayetteville and Talmadge Hyman of Scotland Neck; and five sisters, Mrs. Cicero Price of Tar ■ boro, Mrs. M. J. Spain of Norlina, I Mrs. R. W. Smith of Kinston, Mm i W. J. Harris of New Bern, and Mrs. R. H. Wiley of Scotland Neck. schools Will Open Sept. 3 Roanoke Rapids schools will open on Tuesday, September 3, for the fail semester, according to an announcement made today by Super’ntendent I. E. Ready. Klondaiy, September 2, at 11 a. m., a general teachers’ meeting will be held. All principals of the schools, however, will begin their duties on Tuesday, August 20. The faculty is almost complete, there being only one vacancy, ninth grade general science. This posi tion is expected to be filled within a few days, however, said Mr. Ready. The school buildings, some of : tlfc^m at least, have been undergo •f ing repairs. The inside of Central i ar.d Rosemary schools has been' j given a new coat of paint. The ! outside of the junior building, 1 Rosemary, Vance Street and Claja f Htarne schools has been repaint ed. Repairs to the roofs on some of the buildings have also been made. The enrollment for the 1945-46 term was as follows, based on aWage daily attendance: Junior Senior High School, 758; white ele mentary schools, first six grades, 1,010; colored high school, 95; colored elementary schools, 453. This is a total average daily at tendance of all schools in the city system of 2,316. Mistrial In (Negro's Case A mistrial was declared in the case of William, alias Jack Brad ley, Roanoke Rapids negro, who was tried this week in Superior Court on a charge of assaulting his mother-in-law, Henrietta Bart ley. During an investigation of the crime last February, it is said e/foence was “uncovered” tending to show that Bradley had attempt ed to poison his mother-in-law in December of last year. After the jury heard the case and had returned to the court Iro'm, presumably with a verdict I of ‘“not guilty,” it was “polled” jand discovery of a dissenting vote • was made. Judge Burgwyn imme diately declared a mistrial and set itwcase for a rehearing at the J|n0K term of Superior Court. (Two More Days oi Racing Scheduled Two more big days of horse racing have been scheduled a! Choekoyotte Park near the Coun fry Club next Saturday and Sun dtjfcit was announced today. If 'About 60 entries have been made for the event, which consists o Ifour taces each afternoon. Includ |Lj in the entries are some of thi Ifinest and fastest horses in thi Ibart of the country. The purse Rot- the two days will run approxi litiately $2,800. Playgrounds Close Season With Success The 10-weeks season of the city playgrounds closed last week with splendid success, J. C. Hoyle, sup ervisor, announced today. Operating twice daily the five grounds drew an average attend ance of 250 kiddies per day or 1200 per week. The swimming pool, naturally more popular dur ing the extremely hot days, drew an average attendance of 1600 per week. This was decidedly the best playground season yet held and the program of activity was con siderably enlarged. Assisting Coach Hoyle in con ducting the playground activities were: Vance Street School: Mason Harp and Ann White. Central School: Buddy Smith and Doris Fahey. Clara Hearne School, Sam Wood and Martha Starke. Rose mary School: Bill Hawkins and Grace Taylor. | Chief lifeguard at the swimming pool was Frank Hawley. At the Chaloner Park play ground of the John Armstrong School, where Mary Brewer and Hazel Ivey ha,d charge, the aver age attendance of colored child ren was between 65 and 75 per clay. This is the first time the Chaloner Park playground has been operated for the full 10 weeks’ period and was the best season held yet at that playground Baughan In New Position H W. Winstead of the U. 3. Employment Service disclosed to day that Gilbert Baughan, 301 Hamilton Street, a former inter viewer of the Employment Ser vice, had been promoted to vet erans employment representative, effective August 11. Mr. Baughan is on vacation this week but will begin his new duties on Monday i morning. Mr. Baughan’s new duties will consist of assisting veterans ir locating suitable jobs, contacting employers to encourage employ ment of veterans, to develop jol orders for veterans and to be i source of information for veteran: concerning any question of em [ pi jyment. All veterans are urged to con i tact Mr. Baughan at the Employ i ment Office concerning employ i ment and employers are urged t . report all job openings to Mi Baughan immediately. 'Faulty' Rim Blown Off; Prause Hurt While putting air into a truck ti-e at the Whiteway Service Sta tion Iasi Monday afternoon about 6 o’clock, Eddie Prause. operator of Eddie’s Garage on Tenth street, suffered a deep gash over his left eye, four compound fractures of the left arm, and a slightly sprain ed right wrist when a “faulty” rim was blown from the wheel. A strange coincident of the a,c cident^ according to Prause, is. the r'a ct that the vision in his left eye has been restored. Prause declared that he has1 been totally blind in the optic for 15 years, but can n.iw see perfectly. Prause was treated at Roanoke Rapids Hospital for his injuries by Dr. Bahnson Weathers and i3 now recovering at his home. Howard O. Hale Given Discharge Howard Oscar Hale, son of Mr. and Mrs. O. C. Hale, 651 Charlotte Street, has received an honorable discharge from the U. S. Naval Reserve. Howard served from June 11, 1945, to August 7, 1946, and was stationed for a long period of time at Norfolk. Shearin Back In U. S. Air Corps Franklin L. Shearin, 1011 Bur ton Street, a former staff sergeant in the Army Air Corps, has been accepted for another three-year enlistment. Sgt. Shearin was dis charged from his first period of enlistment on November 19, 1945, and entered his present period of active service on August 12, 1946. Temporarily he will be stationed at Fort Bragg. Letter Delivered Promptly Without City's Name On It Sometimes Uncle Sam’s mail service goes “haywire,” and postal officials get “cussed” for it, but then again, you have to give the mail men credit for doing a good job. On August 8 a letter was mailed in Scotland Neck ad dressed simply: “Mr. J. A. Seaman, j “District Manager, “Southern Dixie Life Insur ance Co.”' There was no further address and no indication as to where Mr. Seaman lived. The letter arrived in Roanoke Rapids on > Friday, August 9, and was . promptly delivered by the post office to Mr. Seaman.
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