Fred Johnson, the negro man who killed another negro, Willie Williams, by cutting his jugular vein with a razor last Friday night, was captured by the police Monday morning on the Mangum farm in Durham county. He was tried before Mayor Roberson Tuesday, bound over to court, and taken to the jail in Hillsboro.
The killing took place on West Franklin street in front of one of the negro restaurants. When the police arrived Johnson had disappeared. Eye-witnesses told them what had happened.
When Johnson was captured Monday and brought to Chapel Hill, a great crowd of negroes gathered around the jail. The victim of the tragedy was well liked by the negroes of the town, while they feared and disliked Johnson.
From the front page of the Chapel Hill Weekly, Nov. 20, 1924
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