Raleigh, June 1—H. Hoyle Sink, commissioner of pardons, has just returned from a trip to the Piedmont section of the state where he made investigations regarding Fred Jones, negro, under sentence of death for murder, whose case has been formally presented for executive clemency.
Jones was convicted of the murder of a laundry man in Winton-Salem and has been denied a new trial by the supreme court. His attorney’s plea is that the negro is insane.
Mr. Sink secured considerable information in Rowan county, where Jones at one time served on the chain gang, the pardon commissioner said. No decision has yet been reached.
From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, June 2, 1926
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