Albemarle, N.C., July 16 (AP)—Another story of cruel deaths alleged to have occurred in the prison camp of Stanly County was painted before the jury trying N.C. Cranford, former “convict boss” in Superior Court here today.
Carl Leake, negro, who served under Cranford, testified that he had beaten another negro, John Quincy, until he fell to the ground exhausted, and that Cranford had administered further punishment. Leake said Quincy died during the night, and that on the following day he helped Cranford take the body into the woods an secretly bury it.
On cross examination Leake admitted he had offered to aid Cranford, who he liked, and had gone to work for him when he had served his sentence. He said he later became angered at the “foreman” and went to the state’s attorney with his story.
From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, July 16, 1926
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