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envytrf a inan infinitely bigger than CUMMINS BROTHERS GO FHE&
h.. marshalled Us '-forces to betray ;; "M'r,v.l' !!AW'-
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au loriner service men anu an . .fter he had W
who believed that the great war wasi lMalinda admitted that she had tn
intimate with Williams Von Lowry
and that the two had been together
on a trip to Hoke county, spending
one night of three at the borne ', of
for something jnore than the loaves
and the fishestf
Never before Jn one issue, so far
Cx lionths ..
tTM Months
as we recall, has.The Robesonian had ned
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Lowry back home; from Hoke counter,
and alBo' spent a night with themiJt
the home of the negro. Both defeqd-j
ants bad been to ner nome at night
when Asbbry was there, but she bad
never heard of any words between
them and Asbury. She denied that
she had told her father that she coqldj
nave wuuaro von ixiwry 10 put as
bury out of the way: v
Willie Chavis, 15-year-old son i
Malinda, corroborated the testimony j
VS. ..V- V V . n. H n A.!
with Norman Cummings ' about An
bury's not going to her home another"
Truth about some movie actors, ob-! night without being bothered. He al-
serves The Outlook, seems to be un-so told or Asbury s going to Ms nonfe
TOLERATE SUCH CR! " V consciously expressed in a bit of cor-,- r" "-nony-
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Entered as second class mail matter
ftt.tfce postrffice at Lumberton, N. C,
2XONDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1922. sensational local items,
sonian. News broke so fast that
everybody connected with the paper
was kept on the jump, but every
thing was duly recorded up to the
moment of going to press. It is
altogether cut of the ordinary for ,a
paper published in a rural county to
have to publish in one issue so many
PUBLIC SENTIMENT WILL NOT
his opinion that Asbury died as a re-j manufacturing liquor. Oxendine was
suit of : the.wounds.: - a sentenced) to 2 years" and Hunt to
At the request of the solicitor. Dr.l. .. rz. w
Hardin exhumed the hodv of Oxendine' 10 m ae, county. toads.
Asbury was looking for his moth&,
who was away from home. Asbury
spent about a half-hour there and he
In ki. rmik to the rrand iurv respondence from Los Angeles
the other day after receiving its re- 'hd in theatrical weekly, reading
t..j r.., ..m w vn. as follows: "Director says the
th brutal murder committed near , best way to test an actor, is to go then accompanied him back to Peij.
Tiimhi.rtnn last Wednesdav nieht' camping with him. He has just re- ro .,. .. d
was the crime of one bad man. such, turned from such a trip, and?uts the Th testimonv of sheriff R. E
'crime as might happen in any com-0. K. on the man who plays the lead- Lewis dealt largely with the trailing
monity, the shameful crime commit- g ro'e m his new production, thus:
ed t St Pnnls toppW mm last , He's a line dishwasner.
ago
Saturday night, a young Jew being ' 0
IcWnadv 4 tnn. rouc-hlv handled "Gardens and truck, pigs
and ordered to leave town on pain of poultry",- la Governor Morrison's
death, is the sort of crime that leaves slogan now, according to the Charlotte
,the impression on the outside world , Observer, which says that a superin
that local sentiment will not demand J tendent of gardening is to be appoint-
punishment In order to prevent such'ed soon. The Governor has caught a
crimes, he said, it is the duty of law-
abiding citizens to let it be known
of the bloodhound to the home of
Norman Cummings. He reached the
scene of the "homicide about 3 a. m.
an(j After daylight se saw some tracks
cotton field immediately east of th
place where Asbury's body lay. It
appeared that the person" making the
tracks stood at the point near where
Asbury was killed. The tracks lead
ing away indicated that the person
vision of a land smiling with pea ;mk5ng hem was runnin? He ollow,
and plenty by reason of intelligent
that public sentiment absolutely will attention to gardening and trucking
ot trtlrt th Rnrh rnmoa dn ana pig ana pounry raising, inere
the county and State incalculable in
jury; and in this connection Judge
Connor mentioned the recent effort
td -bring a negro back to -North Caro
wlinawfsr atrial' frm uX3anada-nd the
efffsr oiTfnat f owrnnTenrToTtow
is no danger of over-training in a
program like that.
O r T
..It ia.. of f iciallamunced? that the f tma
RepuHiaan -onalcc7imitteeCi
ed the tracks around through the
field and into a path that led direct
to Norman Cummings' house. He also
saw some tracks in a field wast of
where the dead body was lying. It alT
so appeared that the person making
these tracks had stood there for some
the negro to be brought back on the
ground that he would be in danger of
owes 'ffDSyiBOS" for Ithe campaign oi
1920 which resulted in the election
of President Harding. Campaign
fceine lynched. The fact that we know; Promises not yet fulfilled number
that that does the State an injustice about as many as the dollars the
does not lessen the bad impressioin ; committee still owes.
that goes to the outside world. o
Such a crime as that committeed at i Free Cotton Seed.
St Pauls is most unusual in Robeson
ihe-blood
hound trailing zrdni'tne point to the
west of the body to the home of .Nor
man Cummings, the dog making the
same trail twice. The dog went to
the front door steps and would have
gone inside the house, but he held him
back. He considered the dog depend
able in trailing the human scent
James Lowry and Hursey Jacobs,
both of whom live near the scene of
the homicide, told of hearing the shots
county. It has no public sentiment to A"i"euu"L " ty"T-w. v 'and hearing Asbury moaning and an
it, so far as The Robesonian . iZrT"" w," .i ng Richard Cummings when he
back
can , learn b it gives the county some Mmited number of QUart packages of!eJ ? lL. ?SS
bad advertising. It is to be hoped that
the guilty ones will be brought to
justice and severely punished. It is
the duty of every good citizen, as
Jndge Connor pointed out in his talk
above referred to, to see to it that
no thoughtless remarks shall leave
the impression that such crimes are
lightly regarded or will be tolerated.
cotton seed that they think is an im-
, i u .-.(- nm nu. hcoi ijjiii auawci. uaiuua lean-
provement over the variety now m fjed that fae tfllked wift Arch Cum
general use. xiiey wish uiese sceu
CALLS FOR INVESTIGATION
A series of crimes, culminating in
a brutal murder, followed the escape
last Tuesday and Tuesday night of
eight convicts from the county chain
ing, and Thursday the grand jury
reported that it had found twenty
three trusties on the chaingang of
sixty-seven convicts and expressed a
doubt as to the wisdom of having so
large a' proportion of trusties.
Of course there may be no connec
tion between the escape of the con
victs and the number of trusties; all
the4 trusties honestly may have
earned, by exemplary conduct,
the 1 larger, liberty and con
fidence given them; but natur
ally a question is raised in the mind
of -the public as to the wisdom of
placed in the hands of farmers who
will follow the instructions of the
Department and make a report at
the end of the year. They propose;
if the seed meet their expectations,
to arrange to furnish a half-bushel
of seed to those making the report
for next year's planting.
I will be glad if you would call
attention to this through the col
umns of your paper, and I will be
pleased to send a package of this seed j tw, IT "5 i-i X u"'
tWp WriW fnr Rmo. As .f ould have done them like they
must be sent out by the 28th of Feb
ruary I suggest that those wishing
them write at once.
Yours very truly,
H. L. LYON,
House of Representatives
Washington, D. C, Feb. 2, 1922.
TOWNSHIP PRUNING DEMON
STRATIONS THIS WEEK
Pembroke Hugh Monroe, Tuesday,
February 7, 10:30 a. m.
Wisharts J. R. Phillips, Tuesday,
February 7, 1:30 p. m. '
Sterlings Thompson Williams,
Wednesday 8th, 10:30 a. m.
Orrum Geo. Branch, Wednesday,
8th, 1:30 p. m.
mings about his tires being cut the
afternoon previous to the homicide,
Arch said he didn t see how they cut
his car and failed to take the double
barrel shot gun, which he had in it."
Lowry also talked to Arch about the
car being cut the day previous to the
killing. In the conversation Arch
told him that the car was trimmed
up in good shape and that if he could
have been about the porch with the
two buckshot shells in his gun, he
did
his car. Arch didn't call any names.
Body Was Exhumed.
Dr. Harding told of conducting the
inquest over the remains of Asbury
about 11 a. m. on the day following
the killing. He reached the scene and
found body lying beside the A. C. L.
railroad track about one and a half
miles north of Pembroke. He found a
gunshot wound in each side of the
deceased, both just beneath the mar
gin of the ribs. The shots entering
the right side made a larger hole
than those entering the left. It was,
on Monday of last week to determine
the size of the shot An 'autopsy .was
made and some buckshot 'and also
some, smaller shots were ' removed
from the body. The shot were shown
the jury.:. '; nr
Jim Oxendine, son of Asbury," told
of reaching his -father some 40 or 60
minutes after be was shot He was
dead when he arrived. :He saw his
father's pistol lying near his head.
Jim exhibited the -coat arid vest which
his father wore at the time he was
shot, both of which had holes in each
side, apparently made by the . shot
He and his father operated a store in
Pembroke, and Malinda Chavis was a
frequent visitor to the store. '
J. R. Maynor asked - Arche Cum
mings if he had any idea who cut his
tires, and he replied, "No."
Bennie Sampson exhibited some gun
wadding, which he testified that he
found near the body of Asbury. '
Effie Jane Oxendine, sister of Ma
linda Chavis, told of being at the
home of Malinda on Sunday prior to
the homicide and of Norman Cum
mings going there that afternoon.' She
testified that after he left Malinda
told her of the conversation with
Norman, in which he said that As
bury had been going to her home at
night without being bothered, but
that he would not go another' night
and leave unbothered.
Rural Policeman A. R. Pittman
testified as to the trailing of the
bloodhound to the home of Norman
Cummings. He admitted that a double
barrel shotgun which was in Nor
man's home did not appear to have
been shot in some time.
Here the State rested. After the
jury had been asked by Judge Connor
to retire, he called Richard Cummings,
father of the defendants, to the stand.
Richard told of what he saw and
heard on the night Asbury Oxendine
was killed. He was dozing when he
heard the first shots. He heard four
shots, after which he ran out of the
house . and. ..heard a . "f urge."
tnwards thA TBilxnan -wn
ailed him. Norman and
his wife (fame to the door. He asked
Norman to go with him to where
the man was complaining, but he
said they might also get shot. His
wife said she didn't want Norman to
'eave her. He then went near where
Asbury was lying and hailed. Asbury
mswered him and asked him to go
"here. He asked Asbury what was the
matter and he replied that he was
hot and asked him to hold his head.
He placed Asbury's coat under his
head, but didn't ask him who fired
the shot. He sent his son, Redmond
Cummings, to advise Jim Oxendine,
son of Asbury, that his father was
shot and also sent for a doctor. This
was before Asbury died. When asked
the direct question, he said that Nor
man was dressed in his night clothes
when he first went to his .home after
the shooting. Norman did not go to
where Asbury was that night, though
Arch arrived later in the night Rich
ard denied that he called Norman
and he failed to answer him, also that
he called Norman's wife.
Oxendine was killed beside A. C. L.
railroad track, near the home of Ma
linda Chavis. The defendants and
their father lived in separate houses
on the west side of. the railroad from
the point where Oxendine was killed.
There are a number of houses on
each side of the railroad in the open
ing where the homicide took place,
Malinda Chavis living nearest the
scene.
Other cases disposed of after the
report of the proceedings published
in Thursday s Robesonian was writ
ten were:
Claud Oxendine and Thurman Hunt,
Jesse" McRae; atore-breaKing' not
guilty. ,iT-
Jno. Wesley Jones, .bigamy; sen
tenced to 4 months on the roads, with
leave for the county commissioners
to hire him out after he has served
60 days on the roads. : .
Newland McDonald entered a plea
of. guilty of, manslaughter and was
ordered committed to the Jackson
training schooL McDonald shot, and
killed his brother, Carey McDonald, at
the home of the parents of . the two,
near, St Pauls, about a month ago.
-. ; A- Valuable Layman. ""-
'Major A. J. McKinnon, of Maxton;
N. C, who though widely known, will
probably be known to more of our
readers' as the father of our mission
ary, Miss Sallie Lou 'McKinnon, has
been quita ai at Spartanburg-.1 S.- Ci
where he had rone to heaf, Billy-Suhr
day. . We are glad, to learn that he is
very much better. The prayers of the
church .should ascend, for ; the j, c6m
plete; r?coverx iof; this vuabIe' Is
mail, 'the father of our' honored and
beloved missionary. North Carolina
Christian Advocate. ,
Mr. Nash Lamb of R. .2, Fairmont,
is a Lumberton visitor today. v
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TVi nmncrkn a Cr4-f Gfn-riA TVtiiw-a
making trusties of one-third of the j day, 9th, 10:30 a. m.
convicts, especially since it was learn-1 Fairmont W. G. Pitman, Thurs
ed recently that a negro serving a ' day 9th, 1:30 p
term for murderous assault from a
whiskey car on Lumberton policemen
had been made a trusty and had es
caped. Certainly rigid investigation of such
a situation as this should be made at
once. The grand jury's investigation
impressed at least one of its mem
bers that this is a chaingang deluxe,
where too many men convicted of
crime are allowed the liberty of
trusties, allowed to go and come too
much at will, merely putting in time
during the day at not too hard tasks,
with board and clothing during a time
when many men are out of employment.
BEFORE AND AFTER
"When the devil was sick, the
devil a saint would be. When the de
vil got well, the devil a saint was he."
Up and down the land it was pro
- claimed in divers ways during the
, - vrar that when the soldiers came
home all they would have to do to
r.v get anything in sight would be to
ask, for it; but according to news
. coming out of Washington former
. Vrvice nen are. receiving scant con-
aidefatin at the hands of the Hard
ing administration in making post
office appointments. The way form
er service men have been sidetracked
. , to make a place for party workers
who failed to make as high a grade
1 !n the examinations is scandalous,, if
one is to believersome of the instances
: given. - But what is one to expect from
a party that has for its Senate boss
Y a. man who, to feed is own hate and
m. i
Smiths H. A. McNeill, Friday,'
10th, 10:30 a. m.
Red Springs J. M. Brown, Friday,
10th, 1:30 p. m. i
O. O. DUKES, j
Farm Demonstrator.
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Mr. N. B. McArthur, member of
the lower house of the General As
sembly, is a Lumberton visitor to-'
day I
Mr. C. M. Oliver of R. 2, Fairmont,1
was a Lumberton visitor Saturday.
Mr. E. A. Baxley of R. 2, St. Pauls,1
was in town Friday.
Mr. K. S. Monroe of R. 3, Maxton,,
was a Lumberton visitor Frjday. j
Mr: J. D. Kyle of Fairmont is
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Mr. C. W. McArthur of R. 2, Row-!
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