Asheville, April 20—“Big” Bob Anderson, found guilty of manslaughter by a jury in Buncombe County Superior Court late Wednesday in connection with the death of his uncle, Alonzo Anderson, was given the limit of the manslaughter law, 20 years of hard labor in the State penitentiary, Thursday by Judge P.A. McElroy.
For the first time during the trial the towering mountaineer showed signs of emotion. His face flushed up and he frowned, then turned to hold a whispered conversation with his father, equally as large a man as “Big Bob” but with the swarthy complexion and high cheek bones of an American Indian, in sharp contrast to the fair hair and fair skin of his giant son. Throughout the whole of the trial, “Black Bob” never moved from the side of his son, sitting there with no emotion, sentiment or sympathy expressed by his stoical features.
From page 4 of The Concord Daily Tribune, Friday, April 24, 1926
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