Winston-Salem, July 26 (AP)—Judge J.M. Oglesby of Concord declared in charging the grand jury in Forsyth County Superior Court today that the time had passed in North Carolina when cruelty to convicts will be tolerated.
“whipping convicts is an insult to the decent citizenship of North Carolina, and I don’t intend to sentence any man to any chain gang where he is beaten with a lash or anything else,” said the Judge. “If the superintendent or guard can’t get service out of his men without whipping, then he is incompetent to be in charge of convicts.”
Editor's Note: Some men end up on chain gang when they can't pay fines.
From the front page of The Goldsboro News, July 27, 1926
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