By the Associated Press
Nashville, N.C., Nov. 1—Cheatham Evans, Negro, today was sentenced by Judge C.C. Lyon to die in the electric chair on December 23rd, following his conviction by a jury in the Nash County Superior Court late yesterday of the murder of Arthur Joyner, public chauffeur, on the night of July 26 last.
Joyner was employed by a party of negroes on the night he was robbed and killed, to carry them into the country. After he had been robbed and murdered, his body was thrown into a creek where it was found by the searching posse after Evans had admitted to officers that he had been a member of the party of negroes.
From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Saturday, Nov. 1, 1924
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