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u i At a two-day session of , the
Eastern Baptist Association - held
in. the -Warsaw Baptist , Church,
Tuesday and Wednesday of this
week, Faison W. HcGowen, of
Kenansville,' presided as Modera
tor. Mr. HcGowen has served-the
Association M.modeiratW for the
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past several years. In addition'to
his Church" activities, Mr. McOow
en is 'prominently affiliated with
Masonic,' Junior Order, and other
fraternal organizations, t Furthermore,-
he is the popular and effi
cient Auditor .of Duplin - County.
Altogether, he is one of Duplin
County's most useful citizens.' ;.
) PRINCIPALS IN RAPE CASE
PARADE EMOTIONS AT TRIAL
In
Mrs. Clara Stanley Coo, who
I. II II 11 I T V I n I was' raped by three negroes near
vuvii i i -i nk 11 i
3L B. Williams suffered an. at
tack with his kidneys Wednesday
afternoon. Ee is reported to be up j
ana aoing niceiy,
i Supt. 0. P. Johnson is leaving
Friday afternoon for Oxford, where
he will spend the night with his
brother and attend the" Duke-Tennessee
homecoming football game
Saturday. Mr. Johnson is an' alum
nus of Duke.
. N. IL EXITH " V -
' 'District Organisation Director,
of the North Carolina Farm Bur
eatf who is assisting County Agri
cultural leaders in the drive - for
membership in the Farm Bureau.
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ich. asi he was Ccr-
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1 T?-- diesateaj .'-alternates,'
' ; r ' r;rd the Warsaw
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esual meeting of
t. i ;"t Association
s." n t' s L. " '-ised Tuesday
t... ' - A txo-C. ,4 ram was
K- -1 Vc !aesJay evening. ; .
C:.. r I.! 1 fr the ensuing
fear sit .T.- - morning's' ' ses
s'sa were: F..'.l! Cawen, mod
dt; ti?. J. Herman Barnes,
,;.e-r;"- ?, and C. L Bobin
sia, C ", 1 rarer, all. incum
bents t.l : JL?:3L - - -
Tcrics ;-'I daring-k-the
mectl-t we- -: r ,Iipious litera
ture, tha C. .iive Program,
! . "i ( mete), Sunday
C V.. . Temperance,'
U. U. TT, V.. 3 Missions, Home
1 1 :;es, r;r: i L'Isdons, Chris-
Eiic-at,-, - : u.t Training
COIUNITY' MEETINGS FOR
; FARHIERS OF COUNTY 7:30 P. M.
' Pour young lawyers were sworn
in before the court ' this week.
Monday Judge Grady administer
ed the oath to Grady Mercer s of
Beulaville, Early Clifford Sander
son, of Chinquapin, and Hubert
Everett Phillips of-uear Warsaw.
Mr. Mercer is located at Beulaville
for practice. Mr. Phillips has lo
cated in Kenansville and? Mr.
Sanderson will locate in Kenans
ville or Wallace. - .
Kenansville,'. . Oct. 7. Judge
Henry A. Grady, conducting Supe
rior Court in Kenansville 'tiiis
week, pronounced the death sen
tence on the three negroes who
attacked Mrs. Clara Stanley Coe
on the night of August 18, Thurs
day morning before a crowd esti
mated at 2,500, after a jury had
deliberated for only 30 minutes
before returning a verdict of guil
ty oi rape. t-
Thecase came up yesterday
morning, and the selection of a
special jury took the entire morn
ing, oi the IK5 men summoned,
114 were questioned before a jury
could be -assembled.
State's evidence was completed
Wednesday afternoon, forming a
damning case against the defend-
of terror in her eyes on having to ants, Apson Outlaw, Sylvester Out-
recall the horrors of her etperi- law, and Lonnie Gardner. The
ence, Jdrs. Coe told the judge and i victim. Mrs. Coe, was the first
jury : of the . negroes accosting I witness to take the stand. She tore
her and her companion, forcing, her handkerchief . between her
her .to get in the car with them',; nervous fingers as she talked ii, s
and later all three of them at-1 broken voice and told the who! -;
; tacking her and leaving her on a story of the attack. Her ory wja
Pink. Hill on the night of August
18th, walked down an aisle made
through the'. 2,500 people who
jammed the courthouse in Ken
ansville Wednesday to see her at
tackers tried for their .. lives for
the crime. r r ',
Mrs. Coe was nervous and very
much upset when she first took
the witness stand at the begin
ning of the trial, but she gained
composure' hear the end of her
story, and Was able to tell clear
ly what had taken place, Bhud-
deringly, and with an expression
AUTO WRECKS
PJULROAD IN V:
ACCIDENT
Poy H. Purcell, paten medicine
distributor of Wilmington, turned
his car over and wrecked it Tues-
the .road in the edge f Goshen
Swamp, between Pink Hill and
Kenansville, and hit a . railroad
track, breaking one of the rails
in two and bending it back. ; -
Purcell stated that he met an
j Community meetisitsv been
arranged throughout the county
to last for two weeks by the Coun
ty Agent and the Assistant Agent,
in cooperation with the officers
and direcon of the DupliB Cqunty
Farm Bureau.; Bach- oommunity
meeting will be held ia the local
school building and will begin at
7:30 o'clock P. M. Farmers .thru
out the county are being urged to
attend the meeting olosest to them.
give Dnplin , e
f This series of 1 meetings will
give supun County tanners v an
v Walter Thompson Britt of Tur
key was administered the oath to
day and will locate in Clinton, it
Is reported. -,
- 4)stinasiWW'iBJams, i very an
xious for Kenansville to make a
good showing next week when Na
tional Air Mail Week is observed.
He would like for eyerybody to
mail via air mail. It will be in
teresting to send your letters, by
air mail land compare the time re
quired for delivery with that of
regular train schedule.
lonely road.
When the penalty Mrs. Coe and
her father bad demanded the
death .penalty' had been passedj
on the negroes, they immediately
left the courtroom in search of
peace and solitude.
JZ rLthSZ fense failed to place any witness
previously said that he hoped to,- M ... a dot., w
trips to Jforthi r. rrrTlzf T
supported by the other witnesses
for the state, almost completing j
the impregnable array of evidence
before court adjourned for the,
fcy- : ' ;
Work was resumed on the case
Thursday morning,' when the de-
Mrs. Oliver Stokes of Kenans
ville, who has been seriously ill
and? several times at the point of
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automobile with rery jopportunity to learn the. details, lyrThis week sheas
ghts and was blinded, cluing him J of the proposed surplus control RMe to take a trin to Wilmington
to run off tne road, wnen ne n (legislation .plan wnich ;is - beingl0.f11erwtlt The TIMES
make two more trips to JTorth
Carolina from" his home in Flor-ida-one
to the trial of the at
tackers of his daughter, and the
other to Baleigh to see them kill
ed.
But Mr. Stanley was not the
only father to appear in the
courtroom Thursday morning. Af
ter the whites of three pairs of
eyes had rolled up to look at the
judge as he pronounced the deat
sentence, a tearful old negro, A
bram Outlaw, walked down before
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orosstiest The car turned over
its top. y ''.''V. ' '
L. A. "Price,' who lives nearby,
ITsicx t i I.:,-.'.. ;J Eelief, , brought him to Kenansville, where
XLe f,ZjwLj j - -ors were pre-. Dr. 6. Y. Gooding,, gave him first
scut: ev. E, A. i -He, Bev. J. L.1 aid treatment. Dr. Gooding, Gil
Tvntrt, lev. J. I rsan Barnes,' bert HoneyouttV and Cart Newton
Iflv. 7. Ei-' i, EeT. H. G.J carried him to Wilmington, where
rrr'tt, IT. E. V. 1 .Hum, Lev,
J. It. r -' Tvr. T. It. King, Eev.
J. r. t -U. y, It. E. C. Chamblee,
Tov. V. II lassett, Eev. Alfred
1?X r. L. L. Johnson.
T' e fv" srir rLVJZ r ministers
ail " ,1ir;Llf 1 nc"' were pre-w-t:
T A. - J. Lurtn,' taste
Tv" ') I . "it durrh of Y.IIb
i ..a, If. V. r. Vslters, pas
t r ef tie Warsaw Kethodist
t:j.r.i; Tev.'r IIIu rancycutt,
riv. C. A. r ' -rch of 'Baleigh,
T r. J.. 1 g. I .-r, Tastor of the
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the railroad, belonging to the At- sponsored by the - Farm Bureau
las Plywood Co., it broke one of . Federation,'' stated " Lewis -. W.
the rails and nprooted ' several Outlaw, President of the Duplin
he was placed in. James .Walker
HocDital for an Z-Bay of the
head to find a possible fracture
of the skulL The only apparent
injuries were lacerations about
' the head and face and bruises on
loth legs. - - Jr -
Purcell and his wife, according
County Farm Bureau.
Mr. Outlaw alio stated that I
expected to attend the majority of
the meetings. This meeting will
rive an ounortunity for old mem
bers in the Farm Bureau to renew
their membership, and new mem
ben are being solicited for the
Farm Bureau. v
Hprth Carolina-Farm ; Bureau
has sent N. M. Smith, District Or
ganication Director, to the county
to assist in the explanation of ti
legislation and to promote the
membership drive. .The Farm Bu
nan has recently been making ra
te statements made .to Gilbert 'pid progress in Southeastern
Honeycutt, have just recovered ( Carolina under the leadership of
from injuries received in an autolH. M. Smith, and Duplin County
accident neat SavannslL ' Georgia, l farmers are expected to join in
recently.
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arers were W. it. c. ti- t TT - ' , i - ; - i 1
Outlaw, Thad Korne- .LlSt MOndaV
V M A VUfJUhWisi AiCOD'l .!, sjv, :
t ti t" e r""-:t Orthanage of
t Korne -y, H. D. i-ax-I'tajor
Eiiton.
.rvived by his wife, T V
s, dauj;Lter of Sirs. .
j by a previous tos.:A-
in Ezd
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f and dead in I'j.
iateu!avCIet
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tie several
tie associa-
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fk.
The Countv Board of ? Commis
sioners met in Kenansville Mon
day, October 4 to attend to routine
business, xney reoewea w"';
munication stetingtbat, Governor
Knsv had issued an order li ans
wer to a reqnest of the Board-eall-
ing far a one-week special term oi
criminal court for Duplin County,
bcrmirg on Kovember 1, 1937,
wi a JuJje Luther! Easilton pre
sUing. 1. 1. v- V, , , '
their fight for surplus control leg
islation. ' . v ,
, Duplin County farmers are re
ponding to the call for the Farm
Bureau for membership, and there
is considerable enthusiasm among
Duplin County farmers for Sur
plus Control .Legislation. The Ev-
ep-Kormal Granary Plan is being
uuoussed at the series of commun
ity meetings and the majority of
xarmers iavor this plan as a perm
anent National rarm- Program.
vupiin t'ounty leaders have
Wishes Mrs.
covery.
Stokes a speedy re-
Wednesday and Thursday saw
the largest crowd in Kenansville
in many years. The large crowd
reminded one f the Old Soldiers'
Beunions of former years. Before
night,. Wednesday, one could not
buy an ice cream cone, a fountain
or bottle coca-cola in town, it was
said.
A Pat on the Back
For Duplin Times
The staff of The Duplin Tim
es is justly proud of one parti
cular result of the trial of Mrs.
Clara Stanley Coe's attackers.
One hundred and twenty-five
men were summoned for jury
duty for the case. Of this num
ber about 90 per cent, in reply
to questions af to what - they
knew about the case, stated that
they read about it in The Dup
lin Times. Of the other ten per
cent only one man mentioned
another paper.
- Baseball fans are listening to
the World 8eries these Aay. Matt
fit the Duplin County fans are Wolf SCraDe Asl&
nnllinv for th Knw Ynrt Giaiifoi.. V T.?T rr"?110
but were given a big surprise
Wednesday when pitcher, mighty
Carl Hubbell was knocked out in
the sixth inning. The New York
Tanks took the opening' game bj
an 8 to 1 score. And atraia Thurs
day the Tanks toppled the Giants
over by anootner 8 to.l score.
Looks like only a four game se
ries. v i
-v Killis Barber' 27-year-old man,
of this county, died in the Bich
lands jail Saturday night. A cor
oners jury said he died from an
overdose of alcohol, or in other
words too much whiskey. '
J Dont' forget to renew your sub
senption to The TIMES. Only
ta th ttmks. oniv a
NAt x:. alii A. X
:- - - .buuiv uiue t w get as . v cub
,uw menusrs at te goal or ti month free for a year's renewal.
County Farm Bureau, .
Kcrric jay Heme
. tun am rasas ' avuuy mvmm . , a- J,
' Koala, the living "TedSf Bear, I Kerr
li the best loved ol all Australian I
animals and may b seen In parks gy J
i . ie c 1 1 ore t;aoe or w.
, rt J-'snt resident
near the c
I'd Is a tu
t-wi'i 'f tO
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of
several years
s 1 i torjht recently by
y-ars the old
1 ry one of
Just mail 'your dollar direct to
the office or give it to B. S. Gra
dy in Albertson or Miss Buth Mur
ray in Bosehill. v .
; Mrs. Kenneth Fussell of Bow
den has returned to her home aft
er an appendicitis operation. '
. Dr. B,
Health doctor, is attending the A.
merican Publio Health Associa
tion in Eew York City,
For New High
School Building
The county board of education
met Monday morning in regular
session., t, Routine . business was
looked after and a delegation
front Wolf scrape was heard. A
A dozen or more men appeared
requesting that the board do some
thing about giving Wolfscrape a
high school. They, were informed
that there was no money available.
The county could not issue bonds
without vote of the people. There
is no money available from the
state nor from the Federal Govern
ment, ' -f V , . .
' At one time the peonlftof Wolf-
scrape toted against a high school
when it would necessitate dn in
crease in their taxes.
' They were also informed that
the State Department. of Educa
tion were opposed to the proposed
scnoii as it would result in two ot-
her high schools in the county sro-
I. Carr, Duplin County ing off the accredited list the
new school would not be on the
accredited list and another high
school would seriously suffer. In
other words it would r"' the
tween the lawyers for the prose-
cution and fjr ihe' aefense the
attorneys pleas were left off and
the judge proceeded to charge the
jury.
At 10:30 Thursday morning'
the jury filed into the jury room,'
and thirty minutes later returned,
to report its verdict of guilty.
Judge urady immediately pro
nounced sentence, ordering that
the defendants be taken to state
prison in Baleigh, and held in the
quarters for capital' offenders un
til Friday, December 17th, between
the hours of 10 in the morning
and 4 in the afternoon, when th
shall be put to death in the leth
al gas chamber.
The state's evidence centered a
round the testimony of Mrs. Coe
and the confession of two of the
negroes, Apsom. Outlaw and Lon
nie Gardener, which agreed with
the tsory told by Mrs. Coe. Attorn
eys for the state were State Pros
ecuting Attorney Jim Powers, and
Rivers Johnson, also J. T. Gresh-
am, Jr., who were retained by ti
plaintiff to assist him. The def
ense based the case for the defen
dants on their supposition of in
nocence, claiming that there was
no proof that the negroes had at
tacked the woman, or if they had,
that there was no proof that it
was against her will. '
Attorneys E. C. Wells, Eobcrt
West, and Norwood Boney were
appointed by the state, and reluc
tantly acted as the defense attoru
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Rosehill Grocery
Merchant Jailed
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Carlton - Scott, grocery mer
chant of Rosehill was lodged in
jail Monday when officers took
him in Wallace.
Scott is alleged to have gone to
the home of a negro, by the, name
of Carr, living a few miles from
Bosehill Monday morning to col
lect a bilL The Negro did not pay
Soott, and it is said Scott pulled
out a pistol and fired at the Ne
gro three times. . One bullet hit
his left hand and a second bullet
struck him on the left chest. The
third bullet missed. Carr was not
seriously injured. ' - ,
. Scott, it is said, was heavily
under the influence of liquor; He
was brought to Kenansville and ,
jailed. later released on bond. Af
ter an attempt to run away he was
jailed. Later he was released on 1
bond. After an attempt to run a
Way he was again jailed and will
be tried Friday on chars of as
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