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
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THR Rt)Rp:s(t\iA\. ^
Lumber ton, R. (j.