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Sunday, February 27, 2022

State News Briefs From Greensboro Patriot, Feb. 27, 1922

State News Briefs

Conductor Crawford Freed

Salisbury, Feb. 24—Upon payment of the costs, R.E. Crawford, Southern railway conductor who submitted to a charge of manslaughter last week, was freed here Thursday. He killed D.S. Hinton, a Southern engineer, in the Y.M.C.A. lunch room at Spencer on December 5 when Hinton made uncomplimentary remarks concerning his wife.

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Davenport President

Statesville, Feb. 24—L.C. Hornaday, of the faculty of Trinity college, has been elected president of Davenport College at Lenoir.

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Woman Shoots Husband

Asheville, Feb. 24—Mrs. Alice Baldwin is held in jail here without bond while her husband, Preston Baldwin, is in a hospital, believe to be dying. The woman shot him in front of their home near here.

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Bold Holdup

Goldsboro, Feb. 24—Last night Alex Davis, a Goldsboro man, was several miles from this city in his automobile when two negroes asked him to let them ride. Davis agreed and they had not gone far when they held him up at the point of a pistol and took $60 and a gold watch from him and made for the woods. One of the alleged robbers was captured today.

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After Shemwell

Raleigh, Feb. 24—Governor Morrison may take a hand in the case of Baxter Shemwell, it became known here today. Insurance Commissioner Stacy Wade is calling on the governor to demand action on the part of the Davidson county authorities. The Blue Sky stock law is being invoked in an effort to get Shemwell out of Asheville, where he now resides.

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Suspect Freed

Concord, Feb. 24—Harvey H. Adams, detained here voluntarily for 36 hours as a suspect in the William Desmond Taylor murder mystery, left Concord yesterday afternoon after the local police officers were assured by a conductor on the Southern railway that the man held there was really Adams of Richmond, Va., and not Edward F. Sands, former butler-secretary to Taylor.

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Dies From Burns

North Wilkesboro, Feb. 25—Miss Grace Eary, 16 years old, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R.L. Earp of Moravian Falls, died at her home Friday morning from burns received when she fell in a fire a week ago.

[The newspaper printed her last name as Eary on first reference and Earp on second. I don’t know which is correct.]

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Asheville Man Electrocuted

Asheville, Feb. 24—A newly installed electric sausage grinder claimed the life of J.W. Pace, 30, proprietor of a meat market, when he started the machine early this morning. The wires became crossed and he was electrocuted.

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Dies at Age of 104

Winston-Salem, Feb. 24—Mrs. Nellie Hunt, widow of the late Andrew Hunt who die din 1887, passed away yesterday at Cid, Davidson county, nearing her 104th birthday. Mrs. Hunt retained all her mental faculties until the end. She was able to sew and thread a needle up to a few days ago, when she was taken ill.

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Breach of Promise

Wilmington, Feb. 24—Suit for $5,000 damages was filed in Superior court today by Mrs. Ada V. Perry, a nurse, against Cleveland Reeves for breach of promise. Mrs. Perry alleges that Reeves persuaded her to divorce her husband, from whom she was separated, under promise of marriage and now refuses to discuss matrimony.

From the front page of the Greensboro Patriot, Monday, Feb. 17, 1922

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