One of the Occupants
of Car Says Driver Named Dove Turned Out of Road and Drove Over and Killed 2
Negro Children
A news item in last Monday’s Robesonian told of two colored children being run down by an
automobile near Whiteville and killed. Since that time two young men named
freedman of the Chadbourn section have been arrested. One of the Freedmans
turned State’s evidence and testified that he was in the car and that a man
named Dove was driving the car when it struck the children.
Dove has not been
arrested and it is reported that he enlisted in the army after killing the two
children. Freedman said the three men were drinking and that Dove drove the car
out of the road in order to strike the children, one of whom was instantly
killed, and the other died in a short time.
I went back to the previous Monday’s paper to find the first story.
Children Killed by
Reckless Auto Driver
Two colored children, one aged 3 and the other 12, were run
down by an auto and killed at Whiteville Friday afternoon. Those who saw the
car say the driver drove out of the road in order to run over the children who
were playing by the roadside. There were three white men in the car, it is
said, one of them wearing a soldier’s uniform. They sped away after killing the
children.
And in the June 6 issue of the paper:
Children Killed by
Reckless Auto Driver
The killing of two negro children in Columbus County by a
reckless auto driver was mentioned in The Robesonian 10 days ago and again in
the last issue. The following is taken from a special of the 2nd
from Whiteville to the Wilmington Star:
“The coroner’s inquest re-convened Friday evening to come to
a final decision in the case of the killing of two negro girls in the outskirts
of Whiteville last Friday by an automobile."
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