Raleigh, Feb. 6—Arrival Thursday night of Robert Lumpkin and Booker T. Williams, Robeson County negroes who slew Chief Boyd M. Rogers of Rowland, brought the death row population to six this week. These negroes helped to make the uncommonly bloody record of the last 1,925 days. The state had an epidemic of homicides. These young fellows were tried by Judge Frank A. Daniels, who sentenced them Tuesday of this week. There will probably be no plea for clemency for them. Their district will be heard in a few weeks and if there should be an appeal, they would hardly get a new hold on life. The jury that convicted them was out less than an hour.
Other inmates on death row are:
Jim Ballard, Gates County negro, sentenced to die February 19th for murder;
Fred Jones, Forsyth County negro, who has an appeal pending from a sentencer of murder;
Alvin Mansel, Buncombe negro, who has an appeal pending from a sentence for criminal assault; and
Rory Matthews, Harnett County white man, who has an appeal pending from a sentence of murder.
From page 2 of The Concord Daily Tribune, Monday, Feb. 8, 1926
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