Wilmington, Aug. 13 (AP)—Charged with attacking a young white woman within the city limits of Wilmington. Tom Robinson, negro janitor, was arrested here today on a criminal assault charge. Robinson and Morris Tindale, negro held as a witness, were rushed to Raleigh for safe keeping by Sheriff George C. Jackson.
The attack is said to have occurred during a thunderstorm last night in a vacant lot within a block of the James Walker Memorial Hospital, where the young woman has been employed as a nurse for the past two years.
Robinson was arrested at his house by Sheriff Jackson, Police Chief Joe Wayne, and several deputies. After considerable interrogation, the wife of Robinson is said to have divulged a number of details of the occurrence. She at first said she withheld the story because her husband threatened to kill her if she told.
From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Aug. 13, 1925
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