Asheville, Feb. 4 (AP)—H. Hoyle Sink, commissioner of pardons, here to investigate a number of applications for executive clemency, will have presented to him the appeals of a number of the men convicted of participation in the mob which stormed the Buncombe County jail last September in an effort to get Alivn Mansel, negro.
Mansel was later convicted of an attack upon a white woman, and sentenced to die. He now has an appeal before the Supreme Court. His case also is being investigated by the pardon commissioner.
When Mr. Sink reached Asheville, the families of 15 of the 20 men convicted of participation in the mob were ready to present personal appeals to him. And in two cases, petitions, said to bear the signatures of a large number of persons, had been prepared.
From the front page of The Concord Daily Tribune, Thursday, Feb. 4, 1926
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