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VOL. LVII.—NO. 10. LUMBERTON, N. C., MONDAY, R^ARCH 14, 1927. COUMTtT. COB AWB TBOTH- BBTABLMHKB '*!<- H!Ca f!VK CKWTB Loving Cup Presented Dr. B. F. McMillan Of Red Springs Veteran PLysic'an Honored by Coun ty Medical Society in Recognition of 45 Years of Service—Papers Read by Drs. Nesbit of Charlotte and Royster of Raleigh. SOCIETY ENTERTAINED AT HOME OF DR. AND MRS. BAKER At the regular monthly meeting of the Robeson County Medical society Thursday evening of last week Dr. B. F. McMillan of Red Springs was pre sented a silver loving cup as a token of affection and appreciation of his 45 years of service to the people of R.beson county and North Carolina cn the practice of his profession. The presentation was made on behalf of the society by Dr. R. S. Beam of Lum berton at the home of Dr. and Mrs. H. M. Baker, Elm street, where mem bers of the society and other guests were entertained at dinner. The home was beautifully decorated ip green and white in commemoration of Saint Patrick's day. After the dinner, preceding presen tation of the cup, Dr. D. Heath Nes bit of Charlotte read a splendid paper on "The Medical Treatment of Pept'c Ulcer." This subject was ably dis cussed by Drs. IDghsmith, Royster and Baker. Following Dr. Nesbit's paper Dr. Hubert A. Royster of Ra leigh read a very illuminating and in structive paper on the "History of Appendicitis." 45 Years of Service. Dr. McM Han was born at Red Springs in the year 1853 cf Scotch parentage. He attended the public schools of Robeson county and enter ed the University of North Carolina in 1878. He was a member of the first medical class which graduated from that institution. After two years studying at the university, he went to the university of Maryland, from wh'ch schooi he graduated in 1882. In the same year he passed the state board and began the prac tice of medicine at Plain View, which is now Rowland. He remained at Rowland until 1899 when he moved to Red Springs, where he has continued his practice until the present time. Dr. McMillan has been a life-long member of the Presbyterian church and an elder for a number of years. He is very much beloved in the com munity in which he iives. He began the practice of medicine before the days of good roads and automobiles, his mode of travel in the early days being the horse and buggy. It wus before the days of the hypodermic needle and the thermometer. His method of diagnosis wits made by means of his hands and his skill. Dr. McM Han has shared the heart-throbs and sorrows of many families and has endeared himself to the many people whom he has served. Pi.ysicians attending ti e meeting were: Dr. D. Heath Nesbit, Char lotte; Dr. Hubert A. Royster, Ra leigh; Dr. J. F. Highsmith, Fayette ville; Dr. Eugene Clark, Clarkton; Dr. Dewey Bridges, Bladenboro; Drs. H. M. Baker, J. N. Britt, H. D. Pope, R S. Beam, E. R. Hardin, J. A. Mar tin, Lumberton; Dr. J. O. McClelland, Maxton; Drs. A. B. Holmes, J. P. Brown, Fairmont; Dr. P. B. Ha'l, Pembroke; Dr. J. McN. Smith, Dr. P. W. Carm chad, Rowland; Dr. L. T. Buchanan, Laurinburg; Dr. B. F. Mc Millan, Dr. C. T. Johnson, Dr. R. D. McMillan and Rev. J. B. Black, of Red Springs; Dr E. L. Bowman, Sheriff McMillan, S. F. Caldwell, R. D. Caldwell, James Caldwell, Lum berton. Farmers Meeting At Orrum Tuesday Night A meeting of aii the farmers of tie Orrum community witl be held in the agricultural room of the Orrum high schooi Tuesday night at 7:30 o'clock. Mr. Homer H. B. Mask of Raieigh will discuss fertilizer materiais and their use. AH farmers of the commun'ty, both oid and young, are urged to attend. HOAD ACROSS ASHPOLE SWAMP !S OBEYED. The road across Ashpole swamp on route 70, between Fairmont and the South Carolina iine, has been opened to traffic. The State highway commission has put in three targe bridges in the swamp and raised the ievel of the dam approximate^ two and a haif feet. 40th Anniversary of Lumberton's Big gest Fire. Mr. Wade Wishart reminds The Robesonian that yesterday was the fortieth anniversary of the biggest fire Lumbcrton ever had. On Sunday, March 13, 1337, everything on the west side of Eim street from where Mr. L. C. Townsend's store now stands to the tent of Mr. P S. Kornegay in front of the town hnii was destroyed by fire, according to Mr. Wishart. Cotton Market _ Middling cotton is seiiing on the tocal market today at 13 cents the pound. We Are Selling Tires on Fall Terms, with Approved Security. FULLER'S SERVICE STATION Lumberton, N. C. IN ROBESON COUNTY 45 YEARS DR. B. F. MCMILLAN <f Red Springs was presented a silver loving cup by the Robeson County Medica! society at a meetng he!d in Lumber* ton Thursday night. Students Tie For 2nd And Third Places !n Music Memory Contest Elizabeth Biggs and Mataline Nye Both Make Grades of 94 in Race for 2nd Brize and isabei Gray and Lil !ian Rose Beasiey Tie for 3rd Prize with Grades of 90 Each. MARY CATHRINE PROCTOR GETS FIRST PRIZE. Mary Cathrine Proctor won first prize, a soiid goid medai; Elizabeth Biggs and Matatine Nye tied for sec ond piace with scores of 94 each; and Isabei Gray and Liiiian Rose Beasiey made the same score of 90 for third prize in the music memory contest staged by the department of pubiic schooi music, under the supervision of Miss Isabei DeViaming, at the high schooi budding Friday evening. Twenty selections were played on a Victroia out of a totai of 45 with which the students in the grammar schooi had been practicing over a per iod of G weeks, apd the students had to write the names of the composers, their nationatities and the names of the pieces from which the selections were taken. AH had to be spoiled cor. rcctiy. White the papers were being corrected, Mrs. Gordan Ross Hennigar of Ilaiifax, Nova Scotia, Mrs. Oscar M. Israel and Miss Carrie Mae Hedg peth of Lumberton rendered a de iightfui musical program. Another contest will be held some afternoon the coming week, at which the winners of second and third prizes, a sterling silver and a bronze medal, will be awarded. A big majority of the students from the fourth to the seventh grades in clusive took part in the contest Fri day evening, and a goodly number of the parents and people interested in music were present. The unusuaily high grades made re flected great credit on Miss DeViam ing, public schooi music teacher. OPERETTA AT H. T. H! SCHOOL FRIDAY NIGHT "The Feast of the^orn" Wi!! Be Pre sented by the Students and Several Members of the Faculty. "The Feast of the Corn," an oper etta for ladies, will be presented by the students and several members of the faculty of the Barker Ten Mile school in the high school auditorium there Friday night at 8 o'clock. Mrs. D. B. Oliver, wife of the prin cipal of the school, is director of the operetta and has been practicing it over a period of approximated a month. Training School at Fairmont Metho dist Church March 20-25. A training school for Sunday school and church leaders of Robeson county will be held at Trinity Methodist church, Fairmont, March 20 to 25, in clusive. Further mention of the school will be made in Thursday's Kobeson ian. —Mr. C. D. Harrington and Miss Irene Downer of the Marietta school faculty passed through town Friday afternoon enroute to Miss Downer's home at Raeford, school having been closed at Marietta on account of an epidemic of measles. They were ac companied to Lumberton by Miss Lil. lian McArthur of the Oak Dale fac ulty, who spent the week-end at her home in Clinton. —Mr. and Mrs. N. E. Herring and daughter. Miss Doretha, and Miss Mary Nancy Watts passed through town Friday on their way to Purvis, where they were moving from St. Pauls. * TOWN TAXES * _ * * Property on which town taxes * * have not been paid will be adver- * * tised during the month of April * * and sold the first Monday in May. * * J.P. RUSSELL * * Town Clerk and Treasurer. * ********** Check Flasher !s Caught In Hoke Co. ! Man Who Got Worthless Checks Off on Lumberton Merchants Captured After Working Red Springs—Gets Tota! of 9 Months on Roads and !s Mound Over on 2 Charges of f or gery in Red Springs and Lumocr ton Courts. J. E. Phiitips, aiias J. R. Davis, check-flasher who worked Lumborton merchants Tuesday and then went to Maxton and Red Spnngs and worked the same stunt on merchants at tnose places, was captured about 10 miles trom sVagram m Hoke county Ihurs. day nignt by the cLef-of-po.ice ot teed bprmgs and a rurat policeman trom rtoke county and was orjugl.t back to Robeson county ior tnat. He was tried in the Red Springs recorder's court Friday morning on t..ree charges of giving wortnless checks and one of forgery, receiving bo cays cn the roads on each ot tne wortntess checks charges and being bound over on the charge ot forgery unuer a $1,000 bond. It is stated tnat some 16 or 20 people were present at the trtai with worthiess cnecks, but aii of them did not prefer charges agunst the man. Alter the teed bpnngs recorder finished witn Pnil Rps, he was brought to Rumoerton t) answer charges or giving a wortntess check and lorgery nrougnt by Mana ger O. C. Duncan of Etird's depart ment store. Recorder P. S. Kornegay handed htm out an additional sentence ot 6 months on the roads and b^und him over to Superior court on the for gery count unaer a $600 bond. Pniilips' arrest was brougi t about by his giv.ng a check to Mr. Clyde atanton, fiiiing station operator at Red Springs. Mr. Stanton got in be hind tne man, tne Red Springs chief of-police traced him into Hoxe coun ty, where he was joined by a rurai policeman, and the two of teem stay ed on hts trail until they effected h s capture. The man's handwrit.ng was identified by the Laurinburg post master as tnat of J. E. Pj.ili.ps, who lived between Laurinburg and Wa gram. Phillips, who is older than clc-ck flashers usually are, refused to make any statement about his game when piaced on the stand in ) Rumoerton. He is said to have stafed uut of court, however, that he became hart, up for money and that he started cneck-flashing last fall, thinking he could get by with it until be coula get on his ieet. It is reported that he has served a 4-months' term in f ed eral prison for defrauding the mai s. Wnen working Rumoerton mer chants, Phillips gave the name of J. R. Davts, of R. 1, Maxton. He show ed here Tuesday a deposit slip for $101 and got a check off on ELrd's department store for $16 and one cn Weinstein & Schaeman for $6, ^ther stores refusing to cash his checks. Joint Meeting Of Legion and Auxiliary Thursday Night 17th AH Members Urged to Attend—Sev eral Things of Importance to Con sider. "COMMUNITY SERVICE" IS SLOGAN FOR THE YEAR. (Hy J. L. Spivey, Commander) There will be a joint meeting of the American Legion and American Legion auxiliary at the 1-egion halt on next Tuesday night, March 17, at 8 o'clock. AH members of the American Legion and the Auxiliary are especial, ly requested to be presept, as there are several things of importance to be passed on by both organ. tins meeting. The slogan for the American Legion and Auxiliary for this year is "COM MUNITY SERVICE". This is a worthy programme and should demand the cooperation and support of each member of the Legion and Auxiliary, as well as the public in general. In order to successfully carry out the idea suggested in our slogan, it is necessary for each organization to make every effort to increase its membership to the limit just as early as possible. In order to do this we must have the hearty cooperation and active support of the individual mem bers. We suggest that each member of the legion and auxiliary constitute and consider himself or herself a mem ber of the membership committee and make a special effort to secure at least one new member between now and next Thursday night. In additioh to securing just as many new members as you possibly can between now and next Thursday night, please make a list of all ex-service men that you know that are not now members of the legion and all mothers, wives or sis ters of ex-service men that are not members of the auxiliary and bring with you so that we may know who is eligible and have something"7fefm ite for the membership committee to work on. Let's see just how many leg. ionairs will bring in numbers for the auxiliary and how many members of the auxiliary will bring in new mem bers for the legion. Please do not leave this for the other fellow. Do it yourself. The other fellow might not know the one you have in mind. We wish to solicit the cooperation and to invite all citizens of our town, regardless of whether or not you are a member of either of the above or ganizations, that are interested in "community service," to meet with us at this meeting. Coed music, refreshments. 15,466 Lb*. Poultry Sold For $3,477.76 Total Saiea Not So Large A* L**t Time But Larger Number of Farm era Share in Proceeds from Car— Tart of Chickens Have to Be Ship I ped in Box Car. ! CROWD SURPASSES ANY EVER AT POULTRY CAR HERE. i 15,456 pounds of poultry were ship ped from Lumberton in the co-opera tive cariot shipment made through the Division of Markets by the Robe son County Poultry association and the home and farm agents Thursday for a total of $3,477.76. These figures j do not include 47 guineas which were sold at 35 cents each. The crowd at the poultry car Thurs day surpassed that of three weeks before when Robeson county broke all records for this county and the State record for the year for the amount of poultry shipped from one loading point; it was larger than any ever seen at a poultry car here. Numbers were given to 343 poultry raisers after the hopte and farm agents reached the scene early Thurs day morning, and it is estimated that at ieast 50 peopic were there with chickens at that time who were not given numbers. When^ the big ship ment was made frem l.umberton on i February 17, a total of 327 farmers re ceived cash for their pouitry. A larger number of families shared in the ship ment made last week, then, although the total sum received at the former shipment exceeded that of Thursday by $202.13 and the total weight then was 2,130 pounds more than that Thursday. The average price per pound Thursday was 22.52 cents as compared with 21.64 in the preceding shipment, notwithstanding the fact that a number of turkeys were in cluded in the latter. One car would not begin to hold the poultry here Thursday, and another was telegraphed for. The second car failed to arrive, however, and a num ) her of chickens were sent in a box car. Two School# Close On Account of Measles St. Pauls and Marietta Having No School This Week on Account of Epidemics in These Communities— Approximately 560 Cases in County Since Jan. 1. St. Pauls and Marietta communities are having no school this week on ac ' count o^ epidemics of measies in those sections. St. Pauls has had no school now in a week and will not have any for'another week. Marietta had one session each day last week but sus ! pended Friday afternoon until Mon day, March 21. There have been approximately 500 cases in the county since the first of the year, according to Dr. E. R. Har din, county health officer. Barnesville, Orrum and Fairmont sections have a!, ready had their epidemics and are pretty well over with them. The epi demics in the upper and lower ends of the county now are the fourth of the year, Dr. Hardin says. He estimates cases in the county at this time at 100. Measies and whooping cough arc about the only diseases for which ! there is no preventative, and it is practically impossible to stop their spread. They arc carried about and ; spread over large areas by direct con tact before it is known that a person has them. Measles is reigning supreme among contagious diseases in the county at this time, according to Dr. Hardin. There is some scattering whooping cough, but the cases of this are not ) so numerous as they were at one time. No cases of diphtheria have beer/ re ported anywhere in the county in some time. Detour By Way of Clarkton and Whiteviilc. Trave) from Lumberton to Wil mington now detours by way of Clatkt n and WhiteviHe, ieiving route 20 at the Seaboard railway crossing about two miies east of Lumberton, foiiowing route 211 to Clarkton, and taking route 21 from Ciarkton to Wbitevitle. Route 20 is paved t) the Se t board crossing and route 211 is paved from the Big swamp. It is expected that route 20 from Lumberton to Boardman wii) be compieted in about 00 days, and this wi!l compiete the iast stretch of un paved road on route 20 from Wil mington to Rutherf rdton. - Mr. Prank Jennings of White viHe has accepted a position as sales man for Chrysler automobiles for the Williamson Motor Co. IF YOUR WATCH IS ON THE HUM. SEE US At! work guaranteed to be first class MOORES tan SHOP Chestnut Street, Phone 431. Another Arreat For Murder Of Rogera Rufus Ford. Colored. Named In Con ffusion of Booker T. WiMiama. Heid Without Bond in Robeson Jaii for Murder of Chief-of-Poiice Rogers of Rowiand. : Rufus Ford, colored, of Rowland Is held in the Robeson county jail with out bond charged with the murder of , Chief-of-Police M. B. Rogers of Row i land in December 1925. Ford's arrest followed a confession of Booker T. Williams, one of the two negroes sentenced to die in the elec } trie chair Friday for the murder of the Rowland officer. Williams sent lor Pardon Commissioner H. Hoyle Sink a few minutes before he was to die, telling him that he had a state ment to make. In the warden's office ; he told the pardon commissioner and a few others, among whom were Sher iff B. F. McMillan and Deputy Sher iff W. C. Britt of Robeson county, that he did not want to go to his death with a lie on his lips and that Rufus Ford fired the shot that killed Mr. Rogers. Robert Lumpkin, who a few minutes afterwards was electrocuted, was then called in and stuck to his old story about the murder, failing to mention Williams as naving anything to do with the killing, according to Sheriff McMillan. Williams' story, neverthe less, made an impression on Mr. Sink, and he was granted a 3-hour reprieve, and later his sentence was changed to life imprisonment. Solicitor T. A. McNeill telegraphed Sheriff McMillan from Fayetteville Saturday morning to arrest Ford if he could be found. The officers thought they could find him at Rowland, and within an hour after the telegram reached Lumbcrton, Rural Policeman Mark Page had placed him under ar rest. Sheriff McMillan and Rural Po liceman Melton Ivey went to Rowland for him. in addition to Sheriff McMillan and Deputy Britt, those from Robeson at. tending the execution of Robert Lump kin in Raleigh Friday were Rural Policeman R. C. Cox of Fairmont and Chief R. C. Jones of Rowland. MOTHER OF MRS. C. H. DURHAM PASSES IN STATESVILLE Funeral for Mrs. Ida Tatum at States. ville This Morning and Interment in Davie County. Mrs. Ida Tatum, mother of Mrs. Charles H. Durham of Lumberton, passed away at her home in States ville Saturday afternoon, March 2, after a period of invalidism extending over several years. She was 67 years of age. Funeral scrices were conducted from the residence in Statesville this morn ing at 9 o'clock, and the body was' then taken to the family burying ground in Davis county, where inter ment was made. Mrs. Tatum is survived by 3 sons, 5 daughters and 2 stepsons. Mrs. Durham was with her mother practically all of last week, and Dr. Durham and daughter, Miss Kathleen, have bpen with her since Saturday. No preaching services were held at the First Baptist church, of which Dr. Durham is pastor, Sunday. Besides Mrs. Durham, deceased is survived by the following daughters and sons: Mrs. L. V. Moore, of Washington; Mrs. A. G. Clock and Mrs. L. P. Zachary, of Elkin; Roai Tatum, of Statesvil'e; Pink Tatum, of Washing ton, daughters; P. H. Tatum of Co lumbia; E. W. Tatum and J. C. Ta tum, of Salisbury; R. C. Tatum, of Statesville, and R. L. Tatum, of Ham let, sons. GEN. METIS ELATED OVER MOBILIZATION OF THIRTIETH AT CAMP JACKSON TH!S YEAH Raieigh, March 14—(INS)—J. Van B. Metts, adjutant genera! is eiated over the mobilization of the 30th Div. ision at Camp Jackson, S. C., this year. "As our troops do not have an op portunity to sec or mix with iarge bodies of troops, I feei that the mob olization of the 30th division every few years is a great advantage as weii as very instructive to every young man in the guard." The adjutant genera) has written Senator Simmons, of North Carotina, expressing his appreciation for his ac tion brought to bear in the interest of the mobilization of the division. —Senator G. B. McLeod returned Saturday from Raieigh, where he re mained a few days after the I<egis!a. ture, in which he represented Robeson in the senate, adjourned. Senator Mc Leod has agreed to give The Robeson, ian for Thursday's issue an interview .in which he wili give a resume of at) the iegisiation for Robeson county during the 1927 session. —A bridge tournament was heid at the Lorraine hotei Saturday afternoon. NOTICE Edwards' Electric Shoe Shop, next to t'e Singer sewing machine office. 4th street. Special this week ladies' rubber hees 35c. men's very best soles $1. Good work. W. F. Edwards, Manager. CERTIFIED OTOOTAN SOY BEANS. REASONABLE—EL ROSE FARM, Fairmont. ; W!LUAMS SAVED BY LASI-MNUIE REPR!EVE, LHMPKM PAYS DEATH PENALTY Mot/Mr o/ 22 CAtMrea -ooMEs-ne Mrs. Mary Walford Fultz, Sg, mother of 22 children, of Martins ville, !nd., makes claim as the champion mother of the United States. Mr. Fultz is her third hus band. She has iost contact with two of her chiidren, Saiiie and 01 ver Wood, and wouid iike to hear from them. —The regular weekty iuncheon of the Lumberton Kiwanis ciub wiii be he!d at the Lorraine hotei Tuesday —Mr. W. ii. Cain and famiiy mov ed to Lumherton Friday from St. Pauls. They are occupying a house on First street. — Ur. T. A. Normcnt was aide to return to his office today after being confined to his bed a week w th sciatica. ^ Mr. John S. Butler of St. Pauis, member of the house of the Legisla ture, Mr. H. A. Thompson of Fair mont and Mr. D. ii. Britt Jr., of Mc Donatd have been commissitmcd no taries pubiic by Governor McLean. I -—Mr. R. M. Norment has resigned his position as advertising manager f r the firm of R. D. Caldwell & Son and has gone nto the sates promotion business. He wii! make his head quarters in Lumberton. — Miss Kitty Kiine Benton, former stenographer and bookkeeper for The Robesonian, passed through town this afternoon enroute from her home in Cerro Gordo to Chariotte, where she wiii visit Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Moffitt for a few days. —A competitive examination was hetd by the Civii Service Commission here today for the postmastership at Btadcnboro. Six appticants were ex amined. 5 men and t woman. After papers are rated by the commission, the iist from which appointment wiii be made wiii be issued. —Dr. E. E. Downing of Fayette viiie, who has just received his diploma a3 a chiropractor, has decided to lo cate in Lumberton. He will open an office soon in the Planters Bank & Trust Co. building. Dr. Downing and his father, Mr. E. M, Downing of Fayetteviile, are in Lumberton today making preliminary arrangements. —Mr. N. A. Mercer of R. 7, Lum berton, was in Lumberton today to see Mrs. Mercer, who some tithe ago un derwent an operation for mastoiditis at the Thompson Memoriai hospital. A!ts. Alcrcer was quite sick for several days, hut her condition is now much improved, and she will be ab!e to re turn home shortty. —Mr. W. S. Britt has assembled materia) and wit! begin this week the erection of a one-story briek ware house H3 by about 100 feet facing the j!)ey ;n rear of tie Kirkman-Wicker hardware store and the Canady jew ciry store, on the )ot from which the o)d frame warehouse was torn down s me months ago by order of the fire department. —Mr. H. W. Bullard, agrieu)tura) teacher in the Orrum high school, says that some of the tobacco plants in his section were killed by the re cent cold weather hut that the farm ers stid have enough to plant their crop. Mr. and Mrs. Bullard and sons, Barnes and Harry, and Miss Puryear. music teacher in the school, were in Lumberton Saturday. —Mrs. Cordon Ross Hennegar and son. Master Cordon Ross Jr., who have hcf-n spending some time here v siting Mrs. Hennegar's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Barker, expect to leave Wednesday morning for New York, where they wtH spend a few days, after which they will sail on the White Star Dominion Line "Regina" for the r home in Halifax. N. S. —Bruce Brown, colored, was tried on a ri arge 6 months old by Record er P. S. Kornegay Saturday after noon. Brown was arrested in Au gust. 1926, by Mr. Ed Clover for be ing drunk end escaped from Mr. Clov er whi'e sitting in the town halt with a pair of hand cuffs on. Rural pp l'ceman McRainey of Parkton learn ed that he was at Rocky Mount the the:- day and went there for him. The recorder fined him $25 and costs, but Brown was unable to pay the amount and went to the roads for dt) days. Robert Lumpkin Goes to Death Chair for Murder of Police Chief Rogers of Rowland. WILLIAMS GETS LIFE TERM One of Negroes Sentenced to ihe tor Murder of Kowtand ftft'cer ,\omH < art in Siaymg and Lets Reprte e Atter time Set for ffeatt.— ittvre ! Vverc No Requests for Hcmeacy for Lumpkin. Robert Lumpkin, negro, wu.- ex-: ! cutett tn the eieetnc chair n the atax ,,ns.n at Ratetgn rrmay i -r toe mnr oer of Lhtet ot Rottce a., R. Rogerx of Rowrand on t nristmas Lve, t arc) oooker i. Wtf*M*ms, negro, convwted at toe same time for toe .< tct -itc ; tn Rooeson bupermr court, was g.ven a iast-mmute repneve ny ' ! McLean and inter his sentone- wa commuted to iife imprtsottm nt. \t-t j.iams made a deati.-cnat<* stateoi ^ : to Pardon Commissioner bmk a'-t ! others tnat convinced tuem tnat was not guiity of premeditated mur !uer atid t. at oe mu not rue tne ia: d snot, ine .sews and Ouservcr g'-'cs tne roiidwtng account: me wnce.s ct just ee grrund sw:it iy yesterday ino^ning as Lo xcc r. ; Wiutams and Mount Lumpxi!!. !,. grots convicted of tne knitng tn i oi if*. **. Rogers, cruet o* poute of rtowtand, were on tne tiire..,no*u or i tne.r deatn marctn A m.-t rnttmt commutation cf ttic sentence or w i* itains to iite impiisoiimti.t aaved h o rrom tne eietti,o cnarr, nut at r.o:oo i c-umpatn paid with his tire ^$^Ltoo s ay mg ot tne officer. ^ cumpKin enjoyed a brief rept cv when a- ftRdo pardon LorMm.s.uomn' ti. noyte & ns, fOiiowirtg a conn , t n o witit ute men, oruereu tne txtcuu t neid up untii notice from tne execu tite enamour wnere he pianneu to dieet witn governor McLe..o. twenty ) minutes u*tcr harden .vorin.n - t, I notified ti nt Wiifiams ban i,< i a m, ,tn n.s iourtn reprieve but that Lmnp ath was to pay With ms hit. i, r } .n tne uay Governor McLeair annooo. - eu tnat Wiiiiams' sentence had te n commutted to iite imprisonm i .. tnank Cod," Wiiiiams mutteted, wnen tnf rnted of the comn.atation. I two shocks of the deatn.ueaoag current were necessary to < .tact t supreme penaity from Lumpkin. < u - swttcn was pu*nMf at fU:oo t.y r r r so itioner i homas and for one m.r.u.c and 55 seconds the current sped ti.rough the man's body. Anotner si.ocg of one minute snuffed out th iast sparks of fife. The negro m..do no statement after he nad been orougnt to the death chamber save to teii nts spir.tuai adviser that he wan "ready." Admitted Part fn Crime. The pardon commission s action in urging a reprieve for Wiiiiams foi ioweu a conference with tne negro, who shortty before the t me ior tit. march to the octogunai death en; ru ber had asked for Mr. Sink. iVtifiam : adm tted to Mr. Sink and others that he had heiped to obtain the gun with which the kitting was done, but Jon-to tnat he was the murdutr. fits reprieve was at first for I u three hours, hut earty in the after noon tne commutation to iite impris onment was announced and the c.an* was denied its second vtcbm ot to day. Peak Mitche), Chatham r.tyr; sentenced to die yesterday, was grant ed a reprieve Thursday became < t an appeat to the Supreme court. Lumpkin went to his death without demonstration. He seemed rc.itgueu to his fate as he entered the death chamber. As attendants fasti r ed him in the chair, he was asked if he wished to make a iast statement, tie nodded in the affirmative, but satd no more save t; teii his spirttuai adviser that he was "readv." Both Given Three Reprieves Lumpkin and Wiiiiams were first sentenced to dte Aprii 20, ib26. They were granted three reprieves, and in this respect their cases st^od nut among death penaity sentences m posed in the State. The iast minute reprieve for Wiiiiams, com n ' as )t did twenty minutes after the tune for i.is execution, wdn the ensuing commutation, ranks among the ;< . such cases in the history of ti,..- State.. Lumpkin was the eghty-mgi th w - tim of the death chair at St tr prison. The kiiiing for which the ta-gto -a had been convicted recurred Lh. ^ n her 24, 1025. Lumpkin and Vs i!!:.,-]: were adeged to have been d[;... gers attempted to arrest t em . ad Lumpkin declared i.e'd he "ticnmed if he'ii ever get me again." tie h <d been arrested a number of times iy Rogers. Rogers set upon the ? and was fataiiy wounded. Kvidtnc: at the tria! was that the fat<.i might have been f;rcd by a negro who resembied Wiiiiams. Th-s mysterion negro has been the object < f search since the triai and during the tore - reprieves granted the men. but has never been found. Tie triai soik-itdr had recommended ciemen y for Wii iiarns but there were no repeats for ciemency for the man execut'tsi yes terday, Among the witness* , at the execution cf Lumpkrtt was R. Jones, who succeeded Rogers as ch at (Continued on page five.* COM MHXCEMBXT ^ VfTATfOX s Let us furnish your commencement invitations andca!!ingc:rds. Wchavet a compiete iine of sampies which.wo shaii be giad to show you. THR Rt)Rp:s(t\iA\. ^ Lumber ton, R. (j.
The Robesonian (Lumberton, N.C.)
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