The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-11-10
Two Yeung Negroes Killed a Farmer
Near WaHeaton
IN DANGER OF BEING IYNoHED
Governor Glenn Ordered sheriff Davis
to Protect the Men at all Cosfs-A
Special Tern of Court VIII be Or
dered for Their Trial-Editor Poe
Considering Offer OF n new Position.
Especial to The Messenger.l

Raleigh. y. G.. November 6.-The
governor received Il telegram from
lSherif Davis. OF Warren telling him
that two negro men in jail there for
numbering a farmer, w. G. King. in
the public highway Saturday night are
i'm imminent danger of being lynched
Iby a mob forming TO take him from the
Jail. The sheriff said he thought Il
best to remove them immediately % a
lsafe place. The governor wired him
~ bring them into Raleigh and il nee
lessary TO call out local troops and to
certainly prevent violence. The gov
Iernor talked over the phone with the
lsherif who said the people wanted
a speedy trial and this was the trouble.
THE governor said he would give a
Especial term of court. The sheriff said
ihe thought this would quiet the people.
THE governor ordered che men brought
here tonight, and will order a special
term as soon as he can ecu a judge.
He directed hat ii troops were neces-
lsary they should be ordered as guards
Ito the train, ON to Raleigh. The gov
lernor said:
Il intend to do my best TO maintain
IOrder and decency in this country"
King, the murdered nan was returning
home when the negroes drove up be-
hind him and attempted to pass. One
lcursed King, who got out of his buggy.
At that moment a negro leaped out of
the buggy and cut Kings throat from
lear to ear. King died in a few mo-
mentS. the horses ran away two miles
King leaves IL wife and two small
Ichildren.
INSERT TO PREVENT LYNGCHtN
Tonight Sheriff Davis and Deputy
Peters arrived mere with the murder
ers, who are ia jail. They took :ae
murderers out of Warrenton, where
many persons were gathering, in a
close carriage, 10 Ridgeway, while the
people thought they void go to War
rem Plains. The fast mail was tagged
at RiCgeway, and the men were
brought here without trouble. They
are bright mu!attoes. Burton FARRELL,
%, and Garfield Hicks, "a. The latter
is the murderer. Each denies his guilt,
and declares the other is the criminal.
Sheriff Davis say a white man nam
ed Barnes was in a buggy behind King,
the murdered man, and when Barnes
saw Hicks attack King he tried to
seize Hicks. but FARRELL interfered.
King, with his throat cut to the neck
bone, got in MS buggy to drive to a
doctor, but in a few minutes fell dead
while his horses ran away, and when
they were stopped W miles away the
body was in the vehicle. A large and
bloody knife was found in Hicks peck
ct, who was captured in an hour. He
denied that he had changed his bloody
shirt, but it was found in a house in
a tub Of water.
Editor Clarence H. Poe, of the Pro-
Igressive Farmer has gone to New York
where he may be engaged as manag-
ing editor Of a new farm magazine to
ibe established by n of the best
known American publishers. Poe does
mot wish to leave North Carolina, but
hopes he may be able to do the work
by spending only part Of his time in
New York, without abandoning his
ipresent work.
Governor Glenn has issued a war
Irant for the execution of Preston Dan
Iiels, colored, who on an excursion train
near Parmele, last June, shot and kill
ed William FoOrn, was convicted of
murder in the first degree, and appeal
ed to the supreme court which a month
>iago found no error. The governor d.
lrects Daniels execution to be at VIII
Iliamston, December 2.