Will Broadaway Gets 7 to 10 Years in Prison for Dynamiting Mother's Bedroom, Nov. 25, 1925

Broadaway Convicted of Dynamiting Mother’s Home and Gets 7 to 10 Years

Albemarle, Nov. 24—A Stanly County jury returned a verdict of guilty against Will Broadaway at 5 o’clock this afternoon, and Judge McElroy promptly passes sentence against him of not less than seven nor more than 10 years in the state penitentiary. It is understood there will be no appeal from the verdict and judgment. His attorneys, Brown and Sikes, who were appointed by the court to defend Broadaway, have not definitely announced yet as to whether their client will take the case up, but it is generally believed that they will accept the verdict and judgment as final for their client.

The defense was charged with planting a stick of dynamite under his mother’s bedroom on the night of September 10th and then set it off. Mrs. Broadaway barely escaped with her life, and her little grandchild, who was sleeping with her at the time, who was blown across the hallway and into the door of another room is considered permanently injured.

N.C. Cranford, Hearing Tomorrow

The case which will attract most interest locally, as well as over the state, is the hearing of evidence in the case against N.C. Cranford, superintendent of Stanly County convict camp. That hearing will come up before Judge McElroy tomorrow according to present plans. The judge having brought Cranford into court Monday on a bench warrant, he will set as committing magistrate in the hearing tomorrow. As such he will examine upwards of 200 witnesses. If facts come to light which will justify such action, a bill of indictment will be sent to the grand jury for action. The state has subpoenaed more than 400 witnesses from this and adjoining counties, and the defendant, it is said, has had around 140 witnesses summoned to come into court tomorrow to testify in his behalf.

Mrs. Kate Burr Johnson, state superintendent of public welfare, is expected to be here for the hearing, as well as several officials from her department in Raleigh.

From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Nov. 25, 1925

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