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Thursday, April 21, 2022

Crime, Fires, Other News From Across N.C., April 21, 1922

Sandy and Hardy Sisk, twin sons of Ed Sisk, a Rockingham county farmer, are in jail at Wentworth, where they will be held with their father, who was arrested and locked up on a charge of killing Chief of Police Ed C. Ziglar of Mayodan.

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Chief of Police B.H. Wheless of Black Creek undertook to arrest Grant Smith, a negro, for disorderly conduct, and was perhaps fatally shot by the negro in the streets of Black Creek. Smith himself lies riddled with bullets in a hospital in Wilson and is not expected to live.

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William Williams, age 8, of Wendell, was knocked down and instantly killed by an automobile driven by H.C. Linthieum of Raleigh.

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Caught in the twisted wreck of his engine when a Norfolk Southern freight train crashed through a burning trestle over Middle Creek, 13 miles out of Raleigh Saturday morning, Engineer W.C. Davis withstood without a murmur the torture of rushing steam and scalding water that rushed over him for two hours before he was rescued. He died at Rex Hospital in Raleigh a few hours later.

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The Utility Manufacturing Company plant at Goldsboro was destroyed by fire Saturday night. The loss is estimated at $100,000, covered by insurance.

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Almost the entire town of White Hall, 18 miles from Goldsboro, known for its famous Seven Springs, was destroyed last week by fire. The loss was estimated at $100,000.

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The women’s training camp site on the Swannanoa River on the State Central highway near Asheville will be abandoned by the women this year and will be used as an automobile tourist camp.

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Raymond Allison lies in a hospital at Fayetteville with a bullet hole thru his body inflicted by Policeman J.W. Mills, when he attempted to arrest Charlie Allison, a colored attendant of young Allison’s father, ex-Sheriff J.T. Allison. When Policeman Mills read the warrant to Charlie Alison, charged with selling liquor, Raymond hit and kicked the policeman, the fired, but the bullet went wild. Mills returned the fire twice, one bullet taking effect and passing entirely thru the chest.

From The Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., April 21, 1922

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