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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1926
Page
3
Ned, kept under strict guard, earns trust after confessing he only wanted to be among the roses. He vows not to escape and is assigned to garden work on the prison grounds, where he remains for three years.
Ned’s tireless work with shrubs flowers and lawns turns an ugly prison yard into beauty and later transforms the executive mansion grounds with a profusion of flowers and thousands of bulbs. He runs a greenhouse for year round cultivation and even sells to Raleigh florists. Despite clemency appeals, Governor McLean refused parole, though Ned’s passion for flowers remains acknowledged.
Christmas arrives at North Carolina prisons with trees, meals, stockings, and decorations. Superintendent Pou orders full holiday observance, even in death row, while prisoners share in a two day lay off. The festive effort extends from Caldwell to the Blue Ridge prisons. Forty North Carolina dailies report a combined circulation exceeding 300,000 as Grist notes the diverse press landscape and total periodical circulation.
Stuffy McInnis, New Philadelphia National manager, criticized the Speaker and Cobb case saying he has faith only in the two men under charge and believes a serious mistake may have been made in the matter. He spoke in Boston on December 23.
Ned, awaiting official parole, works in Raleigh as a landscape gardener for prominent clients. He greets visitors from among soil and flowers, joking that the flowers deserve credit for his parole. He expects more work than he can handle.
Ben Rudner indicted with Patrick McDermott and Louis Mazer for the Don R. Meiler murder took the stand saying he does not know McDermott and never spoke to him at Rudner Hardware in Massillon. Prosecutors say McDermott contacted Rudner in Massillon on July 8 9 and again on July 26 the alleged pay-off day.
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