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sSchool Principal L Attacked By IratiFather YesterdaySehool Moii Found .Not C»uil* ty Earlier in Day For Whipping BoyW V Ormond, colored principal of the Biggs school, near With ft ms ton. was assaulted but not badly hurt by an angry patron at the school yesterday afternoon shortly after the pupils had been dismissed for thi day. The attack vwis reimrt ed to court authorities, but no action was taken immediately by the assault victim to prosecute the caseCharles Williams, a patron of the school, waited for the school man to complete his work for the day When Ormond went to his car to drive home, Williams ordered him to remove his glasses It could not be learned immediately whether the professor took off his glasses or whether Williams removed them. It was reported that Williams knocked the school man down and beat him with his fistThe attack followed a long, drawn-out trial in the county court earlier in the day. Ormond facet! trial for whipping Joe Walter Williams, fifteen-year-old son of Charles Williams, the school man’s assailant It was brought out tn the trial that Ormond possibly whipped the lad excessively, but it was also brought out that no permanent injury was done to the unruly youth While the boy was said to have committed indecent acts in the school, the charge was not brought out in court, but according to the evidence, the boy was whipped for fighting, that the professor sent out for three whips and made ready to whip the Williams boy and twoI(Continued on page
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Williamston Enterprise
Williamston, North Carolina, US
Tue, Mar 31, 1942
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