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Posse Searching for Killer of John Fesperman, 21, Sheriff's Son, Feb. 17, 1924

Unidentified Negro Kills Sheriff’s Son

By the Associated Press

Charlotte, N.C., Feb. 16—John Fesperman, 21, son of Deputy Sheriff Vic Fesperman, was shot and killed shortly before midnight by an unidentified negro on the Wakefield farm near this city, during a liquor raid. Young Fesperman had been deputized for the raid, in which a number of sheriff’s deputies participated. At midnight a posse of deputies and city policemen was scouring the countryside in search of the slayer.

From the front page of the Durham Morning Herald, Feb. 17, 1924

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