Police Officer Gravely Wounded in Pistol Duel
A cocaine crazed black man named McNeely fired on pedestrians on South Tryon Street and Park Avenue. Officer L J Wilson wrestled to safety after a speeding motorcycle pinned him, then fired multiple shots and disabled the assailant. Wilson survived surgery while McNeely was captured and hospitalized. a chaotic scene followed with extensive details of the confrontation and injuries.
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Chilef Moore
J. B Hunter
3. C. Pressly
C. B. Earnhardt
Jell
McNesley
Witheaves
Tryon Street
Park Avenue
Saci
Wilson
Lad
South Tryon Street
L. J. Wilson
Joe McNeely
Mr. Wilson
Presbyterian
Good Samaritan
Moore
Nero
Robert McNeeley
W. M. Johnson
Presbyterian Hospital
Preasly
Brealace
Rows
Henry Gromimus
Hawley
de Armand
Government to Place $50 Million in Agricultural Bank Deposits
The Treasury Department began distributing an additional 50 million dollars to banks in agricultural states to aid the crop movement. Initial deposits were made in reserve cities in the South, with Baltimore Richmond Atlanta and Memphis each receiving 750000. Unofficial details indicate Chicago will receive the largest shares, followed by St Louis Baltimore and New Orleans, with totals around 15 million for Chicago and St Louis.
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Kington
Treasury Department
Baltimore
Richmond
Atlanta
Memphis
Chicago
St. Louis
New Orleans
Boy Hero Rescues Sister From Memphis Fire
Homer Strong aged seven in Memphis Tennessee today heroically rescued his two year old sister Florence from a bedroom fire. He found flames in the hallway rushed back into the room ferried his sister to the stairs with trunks and valuables secured by him neighbors aided them after the children were alone at the time of the fire.
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Memphis
Tenn
Homer Strong
Plorence
Homer
Hils Siater
Charlotte Mob Loots Hospital In Lynching Of Joe McNeeley
A mob attacked Good Samaritan Hospital in Charlotte at 2 AM and killed Joe McNeeley by shooting him after they identified him as the man who shot Policeman Wilson. The mob dragged him from a guarded room, forcing entry and firing numerous pistols as onlookers heard the clash and chains. McNeeley survived briefly, conscious at 2:30 AM, but is gravely wounded. police say the attack aimed to prevent him from escaping. The incident follows McNeeley’s earlier shooting of Wilson and a fatal crossroad incident near Newton involving Karl Taylor.
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Good Samaritan Hospital
Charlotte
Joe McNeeley
Policeman Wilson
McNeeley
Observer
Tarleton
Everett Earnhardt
Earnhardt
Wilson
Joe
McNeely
South Tryon Street
Shota
Killing Wrong Man in Drowning Creek Swamp Inquest Verdict
The Rockingham Post reports a coroner's jury found justification for the shooting of Jim Arnold by Gaston Tyner and John C. Tyner during a posse pursuit for Jim Cameron, mistaken as the target. The incident occurred after identifying the man as Cameron near Kever, with Arnold dying from a chest wound in a swamp. he had been sought for rape years earlier and buried by the county after his father declined to claim the body.
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Rockingham Post
Jim Arnold
Drowning Creek
Gaston Tyner
Jim Cameron
Arch Bine
John C. Tyner
Cameron
Gaston
Keyser
Battle memory of Rean's Suellin by Col McWhorter
Col McWhorter recalls the battle of Rean's Suellin fought Aug twenty fifth years earlier near Peters burg. He describes four county companies, Heth's brigade, Pegram shelling with eighteen guns, frontal assault under a prepared timber obstacle, the charge to open breastworks, capturing the position with prisoners and casualties, as the 48th Regiment held centre.
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Rean’s
Elon County
Petersburg and
Welton
Heth
Pegram
William McWhorth |Waxhaw
R. FD
Spartanburg Sheriff Stands Against Mob at Jail Door
In Spartanburg a sheriff faced a lynch mob aiming to free a Black man accused of assaulting a white woman. With dynamite outside and the governor’s aid absent, William J. White vowed to kill the first entering guard. The deed, while grim, showed rare courage and a stand for the law amid South Carolina’s fear and hatred.
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Spartanburg
Hant
Greensboro
Welock
Hut Eloise
South Carolina
Oli
Xot
Wiliam J. White
White
Eney
Columbia
Tragic Collision Claims Young Driver Near Charlotte
A Newton news item describes Taylor, a 20 year old man, fatally struck crossing a track by a train near a box kennel while driving toward Charlotte. The account praises railway staff, notes fuel refill at Clapps drug store, and honors the engineer Bob Smyte for decades of service as colleagues reflect on the unforeseen death.
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Monee Boos Ple
Journal
Monroe
Karl F. Taylor
Mt. Croghan
Me. R. D. Crow
Lenoir
Mr. Crow
Mr. Taylor
Blowing Rock
Mr. Richardson
A. Richardson
Crow
Richardson
Hickory
Charlotte
Newton
Roy Simms
Taylor
Corporation Commission
Tere
J. Clor
A. Richartson
Jock
Mr. McGraw
Antioch Ehurch
Karl Frank Taylor
Frank P. Taylor
Cheeterfield County
Cornelia Taylor
Oscar Taylor
Karl
Acconatatuwba News
Clapp
Tilerory
J. F. Herman & Son
Smayte
Tieiy
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Wil
Tors
Charlotte Observer
Seues Girl
The
Presbyterian Church In
United States of Ameren
Northern Presbyterian Church
Cumberland Presbyterian Church
A. S. van Valkenburg
United States District Court
Kansas City
Cumberland Church
United Church of Church
Missour
Crowe
South Carolina Military Academy
Chesterfield County
J. O. Taylor
W. F. Stevenson
Cheraw
Stevenson
Karl Taylor
Tly
J. Gsear Taylor
Col. McWhorter
Rean
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