Cheatham Evans Faces Electric Chair for Killing Arthur Joyner, Nov. 1, 1924

Cheatham Evans Is Sentenced to Chair. . . Found Guilty in Nash County Court of Murder of Arthur Joyner

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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