Dr. Peacock Freed by California Court Instead of Sent Back to N.C. to Serve Out His Sentence, Oct. 13, 1924

J.W. Peacock Freed on a Habeas Corpus Writ

San Diego, Cal., Oct. 10—Dr. J.W. Peacock, for whom extradition was sought by North Carolina authorities as the result of his escape from the insane ward of the North Carolina penitentiary at the state capital, where he had been confined for the shooting and killing of Chief of Police Taylor at Thomasville, N.C., was freed on a writ of habeas corpus in Superior court today. He returned at once to his ranch near here.

From the front page of the Lincoln County News, Lincolnton, N.C., October 13, 1924

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