Ed Green, alias Ed Hunter, is in the Thompson Memorial hospital here in a critical condition as the result of an assault made on him late Saturday afternoon by an unknown person near Pope’s crossing about 5 miles south of here.
Green claims he is a brother of the man who was killed in a gun battle with officers at a whiskey still in Ashpole swamp a few months ago. Officers are discounting his story, however, and do not believe his name is Green or Hunter, but that he is a member of a notorious gang of whiskey blockaders. He claims he does not know who assaulted him, stating that someone came upon him from behind and with a knife cut him severely about the head and neck.
No information can be secured from anyone who would throw any light on the mysterious affair. Officers are working on a theory that the assault was the result of a quarrel among whiskey dealers, and are hoping that as soon as the injured man realizes the seriousness of his condition, he will give the desired information.
From the front page of The Robesonian, Lumberton, N.C., Monday, May 10, 1926
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