15-Year-Old Testifies Against Three Men She Says Assaulted Her, Jan. 24, 1920

From The Daily Times, Wilson, N.C., Jan. 24, 1920

Girl Insists Men Abused Her

Goldsboro, Jan. 23—With prospects of a battle royal of the best legal talent in this section of the state the court house was filled to its capacity today by Wayne county people, among these being a large number of prominent citizens residing near Mount Olive, to watch the developments in the trial of Jasper Farmer, Sylvester Mathis and George Hopewell, three young white men of this county under indictment in the Superior Court here for criminal attack upon Miss Martha Outlaw, 15-year-old white girl who resides near Mount Oliver.

Miss Outlaw stuck to her previous statement while on the stand this morning, in which she claims that the three defendants, Jasper Farmer, Sylvester Mathis and George Hopewell, carried her into the woods and terribly abused her.