William W. Green, negro military instructor of Greensboro and for many years a soldier in the United States army, is being tried before Judge Stack in Davidson County Superior Court this week on the charge of committing rape on a young girl of his own race of near Linwood.
The assault is alleged to have occurred while Green was hunting near Linwood and was a guest at the home of the girl’s grandfather, where she lived.
From the front page of The Courier, Asheboro, N.C., published Thursday, March 8, 1923.
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