Is Three Years Too Long a Sentence for a Murderer? Sept. 5, 1919

From The Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., Sept. 5, 1919

Think Three Years Too Much for a Murderer?

The family of Silas P Ferebee, the murderer of John C. Thompson, will ask Governor Bickett for a pardon for Ferebee next Friday. Ferebee shot and killed J.C. Thompson at Shawboro, Currituck county, on July 5, 1918. He was convicted of murder in the Superior Court of Clurrituck last September and given a term of three years in the penitentiary. Commutation of Ferebee’s sentence will be bitterly opposed by Mrs. J.C. Thompson, the widow of Ferebee’s victim, and her family.