Elizabeth City, May 8—Reports from Gatesville last night were that Jim Ballard, negro, charged with the murder of Vernon Easton, deputy sheriff of Pasquotank county, yesterday afternoon was rushed through Gatesville with a crowd of angry citizens hotly pursuing. Thirteen other negroes alleged to have been implicated in the shooting have been arrested and 12 of them are in the Gates county jail, and Hebe Ballard, brother of Jim, is in Winton jail.
From page 4 of the Durham Sun, Friday afternoon, May 8, 1925
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