P.W. Stevens, well known Camden farmer, has been suffering this week from a number of bruises about the head and body, inflicted by a club in the hands of a colored farm hand Monday morning, whom Mr. Stevens had ordered to perform some work. The negro, Willie Outlaw, refused to do the work. Cursing Mr. Stevens shot him in the arm.
Outlaw fled after beating Mr. Stevens, but was captured down the road apiece and went to jail in default of $500 following his appeal from a sentence in Camden Recorder’s court to two years on the roads.
From page 4 of The Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., Friday, April 6, 1923
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