Long distance telephone messages from Warsaw told of the criminal assault by an unknown assailant on Mrs. Julia Rhodes, 35-year-old white woman, about three miles from Warsaw shortly after 8 o’clock last night. Bloodhounds were summoned from Raeford and at 1:30 this morning a large posse was congregated for the purpose of combing the country in search of the brute.
“Is there any danger of mob violence if the assailant is captured?”
“I hope so,” the News’ informant said in reply to a question.
Only bare details of the assault were available at Warsaw. Mrs. Rhodes, it was stated, went out in the back years while other members were in front, and a “tall, mulatto colored man” attacked her. According to her story, as told late last night, she was choked until she was unconscious and then criminally assaulted. She was unable to make any outcry for help.
Mrs. Rhodes is a widow and lives with her father and brother three miles out on the Kenansville road from Warsaw. Her father is a farmer and the family is well known in the county.
News of the assault reached Warsaw when a doctor was hurriedly summoned. Her condition was said last night not to be dangerous.
The country round about here was excitedly interested in the news of the assault at an early hour this morning. A dozen cars went from Warsaw shortly after the attack to Dunn, Raeford and Fayetteville in search of blood hounds and a posse of 100 or more men remained at Warsaw to help in scouring the woods for the woman’s assailant. Another posse, which formed earlier in the evening, was reported as already engaged in the search. Beyond the description given above, it was said at Warsaw that the woman could not identify the man who attacked her.
From the front page of The Goldsboro News, Wednesday, Sept. 6, 1922
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