Mandy Ross, negro woman who is charged with having set fire to the home of Frank Phifer, also colored, Tuesday night, will be given a hearing in recorder’s court tomorrow afternoon. Judge A.B. Palmer does not have final jurisdiction in such cases and is expected to bind her over to Cabarrus Superior Court.
The woman is said to have confessed to firing the Phifer home, seeking revenge against Phifer, who is said to have drawn a gun on her in Salisbury on May 30th. She came to Concord Tuesday night, bringing with her a box of kindling, kerosene and matches, and sometime after midnight applied one of the matches to the house. She forgot to take her kindling and kerosene with her to the Phifer home and when they were found in the room she had engaged for the night, her confession was made, it is said.
From page 4 of The Concord Daily Tribune, June 10, 1926
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