The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-02-20
NEGRO Convicted of the Murder of
a White Man
PRESIDENT MooRE's ITINERARY
Negro Charged With Stealing More
Than 1000 Chickens i'm a Year.
Treasurer Lacy's Health Improving.
To Promote the Interests of Ma
.sonry i'm the State-Plans for the
Success of the Summer School.
Messenger Bureau.

Raleigh, n. r., February Il.
3erton farrell, a negro from Warren
county, this morning succeeded short
u after three o'clock in effecting his
escape from Wake county Jail, where
he had BEEN confined at the request
of the Warren authorities for safe
keeping, threats having been made
against his life by lynching. FARRELL
was charged and convicted Of murder
in the second degree for the killing Of
w. G. King, a white man, at the De-
cember term of the Warren county
court, his sentence having been
twenty five years in the state prison.
The case vEs tried before Judge Il. +.
Long at a special term.
Garfield Hicks, who was implicated
in the murder and who was confined
with FARRELL in the Game cell refused
to leave the Jail this morning, though
he enjoyed eyEy opportunity for depar-
ture Hicks was carried back to War
rem county and again brought back to
Raleigh last Tuesday, February 18th.
It is stated by other prisoners in the
Jail that all of the work was done last
night through which FARRELL effected
his escape. A gentleman whose bust
ness detained him down town last
night to a late hour states that since
knowing of the occurrence the fact
now recalls itself to him that he saw
a man standing in front of the cell
window just before IL o'clock and
again shortly after II o'clock-oniy Z
Natural incident since he could have
had no pre-suppOsitiOn as to a Jail de-
livery. There is no evidence other
than that all the work of saving the
irons was done last night and certainly
in a quiet manner. .
The delivery was brought about
through a cell on the lower floor on the
north side of the Wake county Jail.
The result of the negro's earuestness
is proven by the fact that he cut
through eight bars, w and One-half
inches by three Fights of an inch,
those of the inner cell and n one
inch bar at the outer window through
which he passed to freedom. The cells
are arranged in double tiers, the lower
tone having been occupied, as stated
by Hicks and farrell, while above was
Robert Lilliston, recently! convicted by
Wake superior court and sentenced TO
fourteen years in the penitentiary for
the killing of Charles G. Smith Of Pet
ersburg, Va, a follower Of the fair.
Lilliston this morning stated that he
was also offered freedom by these ne
groes who offered to saw his way
through, but .4e declined such inter-
ference and remained in his cell.
Your correspondent talked with {. {.
Moore, president of North Carolina di-
vision of the Southern Cotton associa-
Hioa as to the frequent queries he is
called upon to answer concerning the
source of the present cotton sales
President Moore said he had been look
ing carefully into the matter and from
all available sources he found out that
the only sales were made by those who
had bought cotton when the prices
were lower, who had held on to the
staple by warehOusing or mortgaging
the same and were even now able TO
sell at a profit of something in the
neighborhood of ten or eleven dollars a
bale. This head officer of the state Or
sanitation is strong in his belief of
and with the cotton farmers of he
south, and each day seems to add to