Men Admitting Being Part of Mob But Not Mutilating Needleman, April 14, 1925

Admit They Were Members of Mob. . . Deny They Had Any Part in Actual Attack on Needleman

Williamston, April 13—Most of the men who have been arrested in connection with the attack on Joseph A. Needleman have confessed to having been in the crowd that formed on the night of the attack. No one has confessed to having had a part in the mutilation of the young man and few of those who have confessed have even admitted that they went as far as the jail.

John Gray Corey and Clarence Gurkin, who came from the neighborhood where the Griffin girl, who said Needleman attacked her, lived, have signed statements that 13 men from that neighborhood, acting upon invitation, joined the mob on the night of the attack, but with the possible exception of three, all left before the jail was reached.

From the front page of The Concord Daily Tribune, Tuesday, April 14, 1925

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