In diving in Stony Creek near Goldsboro Walter Lee Morse Jr., 11-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. W.L. Morse, struck the bank of the creek with such force that the impact broke his neck, resulting in his death a few minutes later.
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Burlin Ward is held in the county jail in Lumberton for the grand jury as a result of his surrender to the sheriff with the statement that he had shot and killed his wife accidentally.
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Claude Coward, negro convict, on the Lenoir county roads, has been promoted to a trustyship but insists upon being locked up at night. Coward’s case is the strangest tht has ever come to the attention of the superintendent and guards. They humor him by turning him into a cage filled with prisoners each evening at sundown. “Ghosts” are responsible for Coward’s fear of the dark. He refuses to spend the night hours alone.
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Rather than return to the Mecklenburg Industrial school, Tillie Moore, young white girl, leaped to safety from the rapidly moving automobile of Sheriff R.G. Fry early Thursday morning about two miles beyond Albemarle. Before Deputy Sheriff Kelly could bring the car to a stop, she had disappeared in the thick woods.
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In a eulogy of W.J. Bryan in his charge at Shelby this week to the Cleveland county grand jury, Judge Shaw of the Supreme Court took a fling at the evolution stand of the State university. The jurist further declared “that all the laws in our law books are based on the laws of God and when we destroy the Bible we are destroying the foundation of our law and society.”
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In Shelby Superior Court Walter Abrams, negro, was given a sentence by Judge Shaw of 12 to 20 years for the killing on the Shelby streets several weeks back of Will Carpenter, colored chauffeur.
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Daniel J. McLeod, aged 62, well known Harnett county farmer who made his home near Kipling, was shot and instantly killed Thursday morning by Roray Matthews, 45, with whom McLeod had some trouble over land.
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Contending that although the North Carolina State College has been declared a corporation by statute, it is still a mere institution of the State and therefore cannot be sued, Attorney General Dennis G. Brummitt and Assistant Attorney General Frank Nash filed a demurer in the Wake County Superior Court to the complaint filed recently in the suit of Emmett McCoy, negro janitor, for $5,000 damages for personal injuries while working at the college.
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The population of Raleigh as of January 1, 1925, was 30,372, according to the official government estimate, which is figured on the average rate of increase shown between the census years of 1910 and 1920 and which takes into consideration increases in the city limits.
From the front page of The Carolina Jeffersonian, Durham, N.C., Aug. 4, 1925
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