Len Walton to Die in Electric Chair May 27, 1924

Len Walton Will Die in Electric Chair. . . Convicted of the Murder of J.D. Castleberry, Farmer in Hoke County

By the Associated Press

Fayetteville, N.C., April 19—Len Walton, Hoke county negro, today was under sentence to die in the electric chair at the state penitentiary at Raleigh on May 27. He was convicted last night at Raeford of the murder last July of J.D. Castlebury, a Hoke county farmer.

The jury that found the negro guilty was composed of Cumberland County citizens, summoned after it had been found that a quality jury could not be obtained in Hoke county. The trial lasted two days and the jury was out 40 minutes.

From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Saturday, April 19, 1924