Goldsboro, Aug. 24—Isaac Best, colored, about 70 years old, has 20 welts across his back, three places where the skin is broken, and a bruised place on the abdomen as the result of a flogging at the hands of a band of men in the Sherrods Cross Roads section about 2 o’clock Tuesday morning.
Six negroes and one white man are under arrest, charged with the deed, and two other white men are being sought.
A true bill alleged kidnapping and house breaking was bought by the grand jury now in session.
That Best was a conjure doctor and “liable to pizen our wells” was a reason one of the negroes told Sheriff Grant in explanation of why the old man had been beaten.
From page 5 of the Concord Daily Tribune, Wednesday, Aug. 25, 1926
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