Albemarle, July 27 (AP)—Cross examination by the state today featured the morning session in the trial of Nevin C. Cranford, charged with the murder of two negro convicts.
Arthur Pickler, who was assistant superintendent under Cranford in 1913, admitted “hitting a few” prisoners. He said he knocked down one prisoner with a brick because he was advancing on him with an axe.
T.L. Caudle was conducting the cross quiz.
Mr. Caudle asked the witness if Cranford had not whipped prisoners every day. Pickler answered that the “foreman” did not whip “every month.”
He admitted, however, seeing Cranford whip two or three convicts “pretty hard.”
Dr. Caudle told the court he was trying to discredit the witness who yesterday testified that Cranford treated his prisoners fairly and without cruelty.
From the front page of The Concord Daily Tribune, July 27, 1926
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