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Ernest McPhaul Arrested for Murder of Sellers Skipper, Red Springs Barber, Oct. 4, 1922

Red Springs Barber Is Dealt Fatal Blow

Lumberton, Oct. 3—Sellers Skipper, white barber of Red Springs, Robeson county, who was found in a road in the outskirts of that town in an unconscious condition at 8 o’clock Sunday night, died this afternoon in a hospital in Fayetteville. A blow on the back of the head caused the death of Skipper. He died without regaining consciousness, it is said.

Ernest McPhaul, a young white man who lives in Hoke county, was arrested today on the charge of dealing the blow and was placed in jail here late this afternoon.

From the front page of The Wilmington Morning Star, Oct. 4, 1922

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