By the Associated Press
Raleigh, April 21—Len Walton, negro, of Hoke County, paid with his life in the electric chair for the murder of Dewey Castleberry, white farmer of Hoke county, on July 14, 1923. Two shocks of the death-dealing current were necessary before the negro was pronounced dead. The father and one brother of the slain farmer witnessed the electrocution.
From the front page of The Concord Daily Tribune, Tuesday, April 21, 1925
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