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Sunday, January 8, 2023

Robert Grice, John Carswell Held on Murder, Criminal Assault Charges, Jan. 8, 1923

Hold Young Man in Old Shooting Affray. . . Warrant Charging Murder Issued in Gastonia for John Caswell, Who Has Been Arrested There. . . Another Arrest Also Expected. . . Two Warrants Have Also Been Issued for Robert Grice, Young Man Who Lives in Kings Mountain

By the Associated Press

Gastonia, N.C., Jan. 8—Activities of local officers to solve a reported shooting affray on the outskirts of Gastonia on the night of November 7, 1922, in which one man was killed and a woman seriously injured, were resumed here today with the arrest of John Carswell at his home here, and the announcement that another arrest would follow.

Carswell was charged with murder and criminal assault, an officer announced that similar warrants had been issued against Robert Grice, and that deputies had been dispatched to his home at Kings Mountain to take him into custody.

John Ford was killed in the affray and a young woman was shot and injured, but Ranson Killian and another young woman who made up the automobile party escaped injury. According to information gathered by the police, the quartet were halted on a lonely road near town by unidentified men. Several suspects were taken into custody shortly afterward but released later, but it had been some time since any outward activity had been shown by the police although it was claimed by some of them that eventually they hoped to make arrests.

A Later Report

Gastonia, Jan. 8—Robert Grice and John Carswell, father and uncle, respectively of the young woman, one of a party of four alleged to have been held up and attacked on a country road near here on Sunday night, November 7, 1920, were arrested today on warrants charging criminal assault and murder. John Ford, who with Ransom Killian, had taken two women to ride, was killed at the time.

From the front page of The Concord Daily Tribune, Jan. 8, 1923. The newspaper said the shooting occurred Nov. 7, 1922 in the first article and Nov. 7, 1920 in the second article. Also a name is spelled Caswell in the headline and Carswell in the articles, and a first name is spelled Ranson in the first article and Ransom in the second article.

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