Witnesses Testify About Cruel Acts Performed by Nevin C. Cranford, July 16, 1926

More Cruel Deeds Laid to Cranford by New Witnesses. . . Carl Leake Said While He Was Prisoner Cranford Forced Him to Whip Negro Who Said He Was Ill. . . Later Cranford Beat the Negro. . . Witness Said Cranford Drew Ring in Road and Forced Negro to Stand in It to Get Beatings

Albemarle, N.C, July 16 (AP)—Testimony to the effect that former count superintendent of convicts Nevin C. Cranford forced a sick prisoner to get into a circular ring drawn upon the ground and made another lash the man until he was exhausted was introduced today in the trial of the former “whipping foreman.”

Carl Leake, former prisoner under Cranford, who is charged with the murder of James Terry and James Howell, both convicts, said that on one occasion John Quincy, a negro, become so sick that he could not work, and that the “foreman” drew a “ring” in the road and had the negro set in it. He said that Cranford then ordered him to whip the sick man with a stick and that he did so until he was exhausted. Then the “foreman” whipped the man more, he declared.

From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, July 16, 1926

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