Albemarle, June 8 (AP)—A special venire of 100 men has been called for the hearing of murder charges against Carl Sweat, Theodore Gray and Mack Lawrence, set for tomorrow in Stanly County Superior Court. Superior Court Judge Webb has ordered the venire to report tomorrow morning.
The men are charged with complicity in the murder of “Dad” Watkins, aged man, who was killed ad his body burned some time ago. John Gray, now under death sentence at state prison, Raleigh, for the crime, is being returned to testify against Sweat, it was announced.
From the front page of The Concord Daily Tribune, Tuesday, June 8, 1926
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