J.B. Vickers, formerly of this county, is facing a serious charge in Charlotte, according to the following article from The Charlotte Observer yesterday:
John B. Vickers is being held at the Mecklenburg jail without bond by order of the coroner’s jury, to stand trial for the murder last Thursday morning of Allison Y. Rogers, former Union County resident, who was found with his skull crushed on the old Tuckasegee road about eight miles from Charlotte.
The jury resumed Monday, the hearing began Saturday and took the testimony of five persons who identified Vickers as the man they had seen with Rogers Thursday and earlier in the week, when he was preparing to go to Detroit with a friend, alleged to be the prisoner. Vickers denies even acquaintanceship with Rogers, or with any of those who identified him. He retained Conley Robinson as is attorney during the day.
Two more men were positive in their identification of Vickers yesterday as the man they saw in Rogers’ company Thursday morning. Taken to rural headquarters, they pointed him out to officers; even before they had been asked if he were the man, telling them and Vickers that they had drunk cold drinks with him and Rogers Thursday morning shortly before Rogers was seen dead. Vickers denied knowledge of any such meeting.
From page 1 of the Forest City Courier, Oct. 15, 1925
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