Turner Blanchard, aged 32 years, a farmer living several miles out from Monroe, was forcibly taken from his home by a band of masked men and treated to the “Needleman” act at an early hour Sunday morning. The man is married and has eight children. The assault was not made known until Monday, when Blanchard was about to die from loss of blood. Mrs. Blanchard says that when her husband was thrown from the car, one of the party said: “Now you’ll pay your grocery bill.” The man was taken to a hospital and a transfusion of blood was made in an attempt to save his life, and at last accounts he was still living. No arrests have been made.
From the editorial page of The Mooresville Enterprise, Thursday, September 17, 1925. Harry P. Deaton, editor.
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