Asheboro, Nov. 27—At a hearing before J.S. Ridge, J.P. in the court house at Asheboro, upon motion of the prosecution before the defense had introduced half of its testimony, the charge of murder against Roy Hill and Daniel Briggs, road contractors, was dismissed. Hill and Briggs were arrested on a warrant sworn out on information and belief based on the statement of a negro named J.E. Rogers of Concord.
According to Rogers, at 10 o’clock on the night of November 11th while a force of 30 or 40 negroes under Hill and Briggs were engaged in work on a fill on Route 70 about two miles north of Seagrove, Hill and a negro by the name of “High Pocket” engaged in an altercation over pay. A shot was fired, according to Rogers, by either Hill or Briggs, as to which one he was in doubt, and the negro fell dead. The body was then buried in the road bed and the road built over it.
On Tuesday, Sheriff J.F. Cranford, accompanied by a number of people, took the negro down to the place the alleged murder occurred and had him point out the exact spot of the burial. This the negro readily did. An excavation six feet square was made at the spot in the fill in the road indicated by the negro but no body or trace of any body or murder was found.
From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Nov. 28, 1925
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