The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-07-17
CRIMSON HORROR
SH0CKSCAROLINA
At Barber Junction Isaac LyerIy, His Wife and
Two Children are Drained by the Axe
of Midnight Assassins.
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The Plants. linen One OF the Girls
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lily Of Isaac Lyerly, a prominen farm
er at Barber Junction, Rowan county,
WAS nr,cticalIv axterminated NV ,our-
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"'''iS at hliohlSht last night Inc
dgad are:
Isaac LXeriy, aged 68.
MIS-. Isaac l4ycriy, aged 40.
John iyeriy. a son, aged 10.
Mice iycriy. a daughter, aged 6.
The daughters of the Lyerlys,
Mary amt Addie. aged II and 8 re
~r"ctiVely, who were sleeping i'll Il
room on the ScCOnd floor of the house
escaped the murderer's X thereby.
suspected of being guilty of the
horrible crime five colored tenants on
the Lycrly farm have been arrested
and Jailed in salisbury. Their names
are a. follows:
Mitchell Graham and wife.
Jack Dillingham; and wife.
john Jordan.
All protest Innocence, but the cir
cuh&taIltlai evidence against the en-
lle crowd is strong.
An Awful Awakening.
The Tvarl,- fan,it,, ,asidina y ,oi1a
west of Barber rotirod at tho ,s,1aI
Enur last niabt Sho3t1v aftnr n,id-
,.i.rbt Nil NJ ,[arlt da+aataI,
.rI,Ln in bor ronr3 ON tr1o 3,rnar 0oo,
and she, with her young sister. Addie,
descended the STAIRS to ascertain the
uoIple. ~
The CHASTITY scene thai met their
h@He as tlley entered thelf parents
.oolli deScflptloh' ON one
"'' ldI me ld1nef ana pfotiicf' coid
Hl dS'Ih, men lofetieadS having bccl
u ISHed 10y a hcaIE hioW from an axe.
III dliGtIltr par o. me same room
NY Oile llGleSS FORM OF tflG llloIlel OF
~ Hou9'tloio' HeI Shdll lihcH lSG
u 1Siled WIN ai axe;
'h me Sdule pea was Alce, aSed
IN. "l'l HNf Drains ooZlHS OUT Oh lllc
u,1lhIS "ouIu ildue py 'he SAME
we p'H'
a. N'dGu 20 tie horror OF tne tfaStd>'
~ JTo upoll "1lch tlle ooul19 OF MIS-
ana sou las was Iould 10 De on
'0uIi"S itaNlIlS p,oh Sot-
4i"'o' WIN olt ana lIreu ny llle muir
Y,.Si@ III an eIl9ft 10 pur1l me DWELL
-" II 'togI o hiIc ,ilGir crime.
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Nv, '"t IlIeee99 remains OF men loFei
nt' l Al 81 olc oou.S7 were
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'''' where dealh lo1oNcd
HE Alarm Given
The alarm was given and a SUM
nous wired to Sheriff Julian. of Sails
bury. who left Immediately with !,
posse of fifty citizens for the scene +.
IF the tragedy. the blackest i'll the
history OF his part of North Carolina.
Suspicion soon fastened on the ten |
ants on the farm, who had threatened
harvested the wheat crop neglected by
them. Feeling runs extremely hign
here. though there is little prospect of |
I'll I1nching- AS Governor Glenn has in
I rlra a. --.f IN ,4 It. |