Rockingham, Nov. 19—W.B. Cole, his wife and two daughters, Misses Elizabeth and Katheryn, and son Robert, returned to Rockingham this morning from Hot Springs, Ark., where Mr. Cole had been since release from a sanity hearting before Judge Finley in North Wilkesboro on October 13.
Deputy Sheriff Darby Covington served the civil summons in suit for $150,000 damages, which was recently started in the Wake County Superior Court by Rev. A.L. Ormond, administrator of W.W. Ormond, upon Mr. Cole in the yard adjoining the latter’s office at Hannah Pickett mill.
The papers were returned to Raleigh tonight by Sheriff Baldwin.
Attachment of nine tracts of land owned by W.B. Cole, slayer of W.W. Ormond, in Richmond County this week was followed by steps to garnishee certain mill stocks, said to be owned by the Rockingham capitalist.
Attachment proceedings were instituted this week by Douglass & Douglass, Raleigh lawyers, for Rev. A.L. Ormond, administrator for W.W. Ormond, who has filed against Cole in Wake County for $150,000 for the killing of his son by Cole in Rockingham on August 15.
Following his release after an insanity hearing before Judge Finley at North Wilkesboro on October 13, after he had been turned loose by a Union County jury, Cole left for Hot Springs, Ark., it was announced, for the purpose of undergoing treatment.
Complaint in the civil action against Cole was sent to Rockingham early in November, being made returnable in Raleigh on November 12. Cole was out of the county, and they were returned on November 11. Another summons was sent at that time, which was made returnable November 30.
Attachment and garnishment proceedings have been instituted upon the ground that Cole is out of the State to avoid legal process, this being one of the reasons provided by the statute for starting such proceedings.
Attachment of nine tracts of land, which is now recorded upon the judgment docket of Richmond County Superior Court, will constitute al lien upon the property until the final judgment is entered in the suit started in Wake Countyu Superior Court. While the home of Cole is said to be owned by his wife and other valuable property by his daughter, Elizabet Cole, former fiancé of W.W. Ormond, nine tracts of land are listed in the attachment proceedings started this week as follows:
One lot on East Washington Street in Rockingham.
One lot on Fayetteville Road in Rockingham on which is his two-story dwelling.
A two-story store and office building near the post office at Rockingham.
Fifty-one acres of land a few hundred feet east of the city situated on Route 50.
The Joe Morgan lot in Rockingham.
The Norton farm in Beaver Dam Township in Richmond County.
And three separate farms in Beaver Dam Township of 100 acres, 250 and 100 acres in Richmond County.
From the front page of The Smithfield Herald, Tuesday morning, Nov. 24, 1925
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