Anderson, S.C., May 30—Guy Hall, a farmer of this county on whose farm the government charged Tom Washington, a negro, had been held in peonage, has been sentenced to five years’ imprisonment and $1,000 fine on a charge of peonage, and two years’ imprisonment and $500 fine on a charge of conspiracy to violate the federal law against peonage.
Bruce Hall, Dewey Simpson, and Ashbury T. Jones, all of whom were found guilty on the conspiracy charge, with Guy Hall were sentenced to two years’ imprisonment each and fines of $500 for Hall and $250 each for Simpson and Jones.
From the front page of The Durham Sun, Sunday morning, May 31, 1925
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