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jthc automobile had only one light. II (then went to Dillon, S. C., trying nnd the ear he thought struck Ston *1 ' Hoard Car Strike Slone-• John Me Kao hern was going to t) • picture show when he heard the c; comingi and heard it strike Stone, f jumped a ditch, lie stated, to keep U - automobile from striking him. !, I;saw Ston a wounded body and nb 2j Johnson after the ear had passed o i Stones body did not appear to i moved far from the place where i was struck.Car Damaged.'I L(i. Huxley went to the scene afi | bearing of Stone’s death ami saw 11Ford touring ear with the left si ;!0f the radiator knocked against t ; j.lsood and also the left light and lam 'i post, knocked in. The automobile \v : parked near Ocell Carter's store ■j stream of water trailed, from Ston. body as far as the hard .surface wci almost to the car _ ' /Roy Tyner stated'he took the c to his filling station and examined tHiding about the same type of brui os as Mr. Baxley told aiiouL. A hrwas knocked in, the radiator and itop water hose was broken, and , the water had leuked out of the radi tor, he stated. The car stayed the o or G weeks. He repaiied it and tuv cd it over the Juddy Mavnor, who sa he had bought it.Sheriff H- F.. McMillan teslifi, that he and his deputies undertook cover all the roads from Pembro' when they heard of Stone’s death. I arrived in Pembroke some 2 hours a ter it was alleged Stone had been ki cd. He saw the car in front of OdeCarter’s, learned the name of its o crs and went in search of them. Pif I i-’.V tiieiii.out oi.. the crowd came James C nimirs with his two sons, Leslie Foy. The elder . Cummings told therewere the 2 hoys he looking for and turned fover to himc. Leslie Ctilings told him, he said, that, automobile he had owned and that younger brother Foy, had it on icar had been stolen fiom the I.mNormal school grounds, that it was night. Leslie said be knew nothin. Stone's killing and hail not driven car. Foy told him that he had dri the automobile to the school giou and that it was stMc-n while he at an outhouse.Other Testimonev.Lacy Maynor, student at the Tnlt; normal, testified he iiad an engn ment with Leslie Cummings and other boy to go to :t box supper the night Stone was killed. W Leslie was at liis loom, Fov cameand toid Lhat the Ford had b j stolen Foy got Leslie’s Fs.sex ear i rode about over town with Sloe Dees looking for the Ford. Lc 1 Stayed on the school grounds look for the car. Soon Foy and the Dees returned, and Leslie came in and s: ed lie could not go to the box sum Ojlie i.ocklcar saw Foy looking the car. Odell Carter heard sever and ,went to the scene of the killi roy Cummings came up and said ■had lost his ear, and he took him the.wrecked car in front of his St. jammings said the car was ills' then took botli the Cummings bov» thou- father’s. Their mother was and her husband asked him to t tlie boys back to Pembroke. Both Cummings boys took the stand ; told about the same story of the fairs of the night as their witne?had related. Neither of them kr or. Mono’s death until they were io mg for the car which thev claimed been stolen.A large number of the leading t pie of the Pembroke section gave Cummings boys arid Brown Low splendid reputations and Cha Lowrey a bad one.Witnesses for the State were pi cd m the jury room before thev te fied'ann those for the defense v; m the grand jury room. Felix St. art violated the judge’s orders bv staying in the room he had been s to and was not allowed to testify the defense. R. B. Harper, default State witness, was fined $-10 bv judge.The defense was represented bv law firm of Britt Britt of Lumiton and by Mr. W. ij. Cox of Lamburg. Solicitor T. A. McNeill \ assist ed in the prosecution by Mr. *• ^hc Lumberton bur.« JZ°n* in,th? case were Messrs.cm, r- r- c 'v* Nance- A. .r. Ja v- ’ tT Spivcy- A. McMillW- H. Chason, W. F. McCormi Lawrence Smith, F. L. P.ovnit, He.
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Lumberton, North Carolina, US
Mon, Feb 13, 1928
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