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Soldiers Still Guard Negroes in State Prison, Aug. 5, 1922

Soldiers Still Guard State Prison

By the Associated Press

Raleigh, N.C., Aug. 5—About 40 soldiers from Raleigh and Durham, called out last night on rumors that a mob of Moore county citizens was gathering to lynch three negroes charged with an attack on Mr. and Mrs. A.C. Ketchen near Southern Pines, were still on duty at the state penitentiary today.

Warden Busbee explained that the troops were being held purely as a precautionary measure and that they would be sent home soon.

Criminal court convenes in Moore county on August 15 and the three negroes probably will be tried at that term. Conviction of the offense with which the three negroes are charged is punishable by death in North Carolina.

From the front page of The Hickory Daily Record, Saturday, Aug. 5, 1922

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