Loyd Rogers, white man about 45 years old, was bound over to the July term of Robeson Superior Court for the trial of criminal cases by Recorder P.S. Kornegay Friday when probable cause was found on a charge of incest against the defendant.
“It is one of the worst cases to come before this court,” said Solicitor F.E. Carlyle to the reorder while the hearing was being held behind closed doors. Anie Mae Rogers, 15-year-old daughter of the defendant, told of illicit relations she was forced into with her father on three different occasions. She was threatened with severe whippings if she did not yield to him and with death if she ever told of it afterward. Evidence offered by the State was corroborative in every particular. The defendant asked his daughter, after she had told her story, only one question. This was regarding the first alleged misconduct. He only denied that she was mistaken about where it took place, and later, when asked if he wanted to ask further questions, he said he had nothing to say except that he was not guilty of the charge.
In default of a $5,000 bond the defendant went to jail to await trial. Another daughter, whom it had been alleged he tried to assault or to whom he proposed immoral conduct, testified that about five years ago, before she was married, that he did make such attempts on two different occasions. It was also in evidence that the defendant had been married three times, and that two of the women are living, one being divorced and the other living apart and separate from him.
A large crowd was in the court room when the case was called, and waited until the hearing in the jury room had been completed to learn the result. Rogers is a tenant on one of the R.R. Barnes Co.’s farms near Barnesville.
From page 6 of The Robesonian, Lumberton, N.C., March 29, 1926
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