Troy Munds of Dunn is dead and buried and Robert Flowers is seriously wounded as a result of an assault that a masked mob made on James Webb of Meadow township last Thursday night, according to information that reached here yesterday.
Webb is said to have been a persistent liquor dealer for the past year or mor, and it has been reported that the Ku Klux have warned him to abandon his lawlessness.
A large delegation of masked men, ostensibly members of the Ku Klux Klan, went to Webb’s home early last Thursday night. They went to Webb’s house in the night well armed, and as they thought, completely disarmed Webb. Then they told him that his house must be cleared of his liquor trade. Webb is said to have stayed well armed during all the year, and after the white-capped mob left his house he fired into them, inflicting a fatal wound on Troy Munds and a serious wound on Robert Flowers. Other members of the mob were hurt, several of whom are in the hospital. Forty-four empty shells were found in Webb’s yard the following morning.
Webb has not been arrested.
From the front page of The Smithfield Herald, Tuesday, March 9, 1926
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