The Lexington Dispatch in its last issue carries the following:
“Baxter Shemwell, who was arrested in Salisbury Sunday afternoon, was brought to Lexington and placed in the county jail, went to work on the county roads, Monday afternoon to begin a sentence of 30 months given him by Judge J. Bis Ray for an assault with a deadly weapon on Wade H. Phillips and J.C. Bower on January 16, 1921.
“Mr. Shemwell was carried to the road camp which was on Monday at work in Reedy Creek township, but which was being moved yesterday and today to Silver Hill and upper Emmons, where they will be engaged in road construction for several months.
Foreman Fred Everhardt is in charge of this camp. It is learned here that Mr. Shemwell was dressed in convict garb after his arrival at the camp, and was placed at work with the other convicts. It was stated that the same treatment accorded to other prisoners would be given him—no better and no worse—and that no special privileges would be granted him He is 65 years of age, but according to the report of the county health physician who examined him Sunday afternoon, is in splendid condition.”
From the front page of the Mooresville Enterprise, July 12, 1923
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