Fayetteville, May 29—Tom Skipper of Cumberland county is in jail and Walter Jackson of Buie, Robeson county, is under $5,000 bond following their arrest today on bench warrants issued by Judge Henry A. Grady, when Rudolph Willard appeared before the court and declared he had been unmercifully beaten by eight strange men during the early morning hours of Wednesday in the woods four miles from his home in Seventy-First township.
Sheriff N.H. McGeachy is making efforts to identify other members of the alleged mob, but no additional arrests had been made tonight.
Willard claims that he recognized Jackson and Skipper in the band and says that the attack on him was made in revenge because he reported certain doings at Skipper’s house.
Willard, wearing a blood-stained shirt, stated he was called from his home at midnight by some one claiming to the sheriff. Against his brother’s advice, he said he went out to the waiting car and was carried into the woods, tied to a tree with a bag over his head and beaten until he partially lost consciousness.
From the front page of The Robesonian, Lumberton, N.C., Monday, June 1, 1925
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