Perjury Charges to be Brought, Says R.L. Huffman, Dec. 29, 1920

Solicitor R.L. Huffman came to Hickory from Morganton today to begin an investigation into a dozen or more witnesses against whom charges of perjury will be preferred at the March term of Burke superior court. The solicitor said that Lone Young, after hearing of Dock Hefner’s statement, said it was all a falsehood so far as he was concerned and that he knew nothing about the murder of Glenn Lippard. Solicitor Huffman said, however, that he was confident the three men who did the killing were in the Burke county jail and that they would go to the penitentiary. Baxter Hilderbrand was not arrested on any statement little Dock might have given, but on other evidence, the solicitor said. Witnesses in Hickory, Burke County and Rhodhiss will be caught in the net the solicitor is preparing for them and the Record was told that Carroll Eckard, Emmett Mitchell and his wife Fannie, and Cora Crouse would be charged with perjury along with Hanes Parham, Marshall Cook and Coy Hodge of Rhodhiss, Waverly Rudisill, Gene Hilderbrand and a number of others from the Henry River section of Burke county. . . . . . (From the front page of The Hickory Daily Record, Dec. 29, 1920)