The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-11-24
-Four Hangings and an M. E.
Conference at Valdosa,
Ca, Next Week.
FATHER, TWO SONS AND
NEGRO AL TO Be HUNG
Marks End of Famous Feud Between
TIVE Powerful Revival Preachers
Who Qaurrelled Because Of
Trivial Disagreement Between the
Children of the Two Families.

Annotated Press to The Evening TimeA.
Valdosta, Ca, Nov. ga Methodist
conference and four hangings all
within a period of week is believed
to be too much for an ordinarily quie.
town. So at least the people of Val
dosta believe, and they would like to
see one or the other of the attractions
postponed. But the way things look
at present it appears very probable
that the whole program may be car
ried out according 10 schedule.
The scheduled executions are those
of the Rawlins. father and sons, whose
case has attracted attention through
out the country. ALI Moore, the negro
accomplice of the leawlins, Is to be
hanged next Friday. The elder Raw
Inns is to 60 to the gallows three days
later and at the end of the same week
the two Rawlin boys are under SEN
tence to pay the penalty Of death.
There seems to be some chance that
the Rawlins boys may obtain a respite
or Communication of sentence, but the
case of the father. already carried to
the highest tribunal in the land, ap-
pears hopeless.
The execution Of the father, his sons
and their negro accomplice will mark
the end Of one of the most mereiless
and deadly fueds ever recorded In th..
annals of this country. These men.
were convited of the murder of two
little children, Bob and Annie Carter,
in an attempt to exterminate the fam
lily of w. l.. Carter.
Carter and Rawlins have been pow
erful revival preachers in the Meth
odist church. About twenty years
ago they married into wealthy famil-
les and settled on adjoining planta-
tions. The Rawlins family comprises
three boys and two girls. Carter had
one son and three daughters.
The quarrel between the two fam
lilies originally started among the
children and was most trivial affair.
But the elders took it up and then be-
gan the feud. Finally the trouble
reached the fighting stage and it was
mutually understood that trouble
must ensue whenever the members of
the two families chanced to meet.
One evening the cattle in the Carter
barn made great runlpus. Bob and
Annie, two of the children, ran out to
learn the cause of the trouble. Carter
had reached the porch when he saw
the children shot down by men with
shotguns. Suspecting that it was but
the forerunner of the murder of the
entire family, he ran into the house
and barred the doors. The children
had been murdered outright. 10 still
their dying cries the murderers had
ground their heels into the children's
faces and kicked them until their ribs
were broken. All night long the mur-
derers besieged the house, hoping for
an opportunity to kill the occupants.
Mrs. Carter's hair turned white in the
night and the rest of the family be-
came nervous wrecks.
On the strength Of a statement made
by Moore, the negro. the crime was
charged against Rawlins and his sons,
Moore and another negro named Tur-
ner. Rawlins was in another town on
the night of the murder, but was ar
rested on Moore's claim that he had
plotted the crime. Moore said the in
structions were to kill every member
of the family and to burn the house.
He said he had been paid 500 and