Scipio Douglass, a worthy colored man living near Hamlet,
dropped dead Tuesday night at his home under unusual circumstances. It would
seem that he practically grieved and worried himself to death.
On Tuesday, his land of 105 acres was sold under mortgage at
the courthouse door here, this land being on the Hamlet-Bennetsville road and
for which it was said he refused $35,000 two years ago. The land was knocked
off Tuesday to Martin Freeman for E.C. Odom, for $6,700. Scipio had tried in
every way to raise the money to stave off the sale, but was unsuccessful. And
when he went home Tuesday night, he had barely seated himself in a chair before
he dropped over dead—heart failure.
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