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2 CUMMINGS BOYS GET 2 YEARS FORW. STONE'S DEATHAfter Having Case 3 Hours Jury Returns Verdict of involuntary Manslaughter for Leslie and Foy Cum-' things and Acquits Brown Lowrey.shortly before 10 o'clock . Thursday j night returned a verdict of i.nvolun-1 :avy manslaughter in cases against I Leslie and Foy Cummings, Indians,’ of j Pembroke, tor the death on December) , last, oi D. AV.: Stone of Pembroke, i Hid acquitted Brown Lowrey- of the ame.place of a similar charge. Judge IV;--. A. Devin Friday morning; sen-:enced the two Cummings boys to a erm of 2 years each on the roads of he county.•• r'• ;.. .Every Inch Contested.The. case was one of the most stubbornly fought of the two .criminal ;cvms that came to. a close on Friday.}t hegan beiore lunch Wednesday, and [ :he jury was given the case between! and 7 o'clock Thursday evening. The* lefense made a terrific attack on evidence, of the State’s principal witness, ^harlie Lowrey, Indian, who “walked i££” from the county chain gang af-ev serving 4 days, from the State in-;ane asylum after staying 3 days and hen escaped from the-county home.. Physicians have declared .him unable j o serve a road sentence, and he is j low living at the jail.-. This man told j )f a circuitous route he took on the light of the killing of Stone. * While ‘scouting” he reached Pembroke, he ■aid, and went up an alley between Jdell Carter’s store and an adjoining dace of business; In making a sur- I ey of the territory before him be--tore going out of that alley lie stated J le saw a car come up almost in front! C the Carter store, and Leslie and Poy Cummings, Brown Lowrey and some other tall man got out and went j nto the store. He began to run, he said, and as he did so lie saw some me come out the rear of the store..To refute this testimony the defense mt on Joe Drew, .colored, who testified that Charlie Lowrey came to his some about 4:30 on the evening Stone was killed at 6:15 or; 8:20, that he stayed there until S p. m., after which (Continued on page 6.1STONE KILLED BY AUTOIN TOWN OF PEMBROKEA Robeson Superior court juryDefense Testimony.
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Lumberton, North Carolina, US
Mon, Feb 13, 1928
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