Raleigh, Oct. 8—Attorneys for H.E. Dallas of Wilmington, sentenced in the New Hanover Superior Court following a bitterly contested trial to serve not less than two nor more than five years in the state prison for killing H.J. Southwell during the railroad shopmen’s strike of 1922, served notice today of withdrawal of his appeal to the North Carolina Supreme Court, which was scheduled to be heard by the court this week.
Dallas’ sentence automatically goes into effect tomorrow.
Dallas, an assistant yardmaster, who remained at work during the strike, fatally shot Southwell following an altercation said to have been raised by Southwell applying the term “scab” and other epithets to him, while working in the railroad yards at Wilmington.
The first trial was pronounced a mistrial, but at the second, Dallas was convicted. He pleaded self defense.
From the front page of The Concord Times, Oct. 8, 1923
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