Judge P.A. McElroy today issued a bench warrant for N.C. Cranford, superintendent of Stanly County’s chain gang, against whom the State some weeks ago. This created interest in Albemarle and throughout the state. A large list of witnesses has been subpoenaed, and the case will likely come up for trial on Wednesday of this week. Cranford has been taken in custody and placed under a bond of $5,500 for his appearance before Judge McElroy Wednesday. Several charges are recited in the warrant, growing out of alleged treatment of prisoners by Cranford. It is understood that this matter will be given a full hearing and all witnesses who have information about the treatment of prisoners by Cranford will be called. Several witnesses, it is said, are subpoenaed from other counties, most of whom are from Montgomery and Moore.
Cranford, it was learned by the general public today, was tried before a local justice of the peace last Friday, where he pleaded guilty to simple assault on Will Vanderburg a prisoner, and where he paid a fine of $1 and the cost for the offense.
From the front page of The Concord Daily Tribune, Tuesday, Nov. 24, 1925
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