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Jim Collins Admits Killing Sebury, July 29, 1924

Negro Admits Killing Anson County Farmer

Concord, July 28—Jim Collins, negro, today was in the Cabarrus county jail held on the charge of slaying a farmer named Sebury in Anson county on July 19. Collins has been hunted continuously since the slaying and on being arrested is said by officers to have admitted the slaying and declared he would have surrendered but he feared he would be lynched.

From the front page of The Wilson Times, Tuesday, July 29, 1924

newspapers.digitalnc.org/lccn/sn92073953/1924-07-29/ed-1/seq-1/#words=July+29%2C+1924

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