Carthage, Aug. 26—While driving a car late Tuesday near Hemp, a man named Sanders from Montgomery County ran it into a ditch and it overturned. He could not get it righted and hired a white man named Whitaker to stay with him at the car that night. Sanders was drinking and when he hired Whitaker he pulled a roll of money from his picket and paid him $5. Two negroes, Will Dumar and George Cranford, saw the money, and early in the night from sanders had gone to sleep in the car, they returned, and drawing a gun on Whittaker, made him stand by while they robbed Sanders. Then they compelled Whitaker to accompany them nearly three miles, when they shot him in the back, but he bullet lodging in his liver. They left him, and he lay in the road until found by neighbors some hours later, after Sanders had sobered enough to give the alarm.
Dr. J. McN. Blue of Carthage attended the wounded man, and says that he has internal hemorrhages, and his condition is serious. The negroes have been working on a road force and are well known. So far they have eluded the officers.
From the front page of The Dunn Dispatch, Aug. 30, 1921
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