Salisbury, April 29—Salisbury police department has been concerned today about two cases that were more or less mysterious. In one, a white woman, Miss Zelda Martin was reported to have been bound and caged by two negro men at her rooming house in East Council street while Mrs. Theo Plyler with home she lives, was away from home.
The negroes were said to have entered the home last night and secured $20 belonging to Mrs. Plyler. They then bound and caged Miss Martin, according to her story when Mr. and Mrs. Plyler returned home and found her tied up.
The other case concerned the finding of a number of articles of men’s clothing near a negro cemetery, evidence apparently pointing to a tragedy. Enough could be learned from papers in the clothing to indicate that they belonged to Jack Mitchell, 55 years old, and there were instructions to notify some Mitchells in case of death or injury, but this instruction was blurred. Officers probed in a mound of freshly turned up dirt nearby but found nothing.
From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Friday, April 30, 1926
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