The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-01-01
Advanced on Father In
Law With Knife
WAS SHOT TO DEATH
Vifc Had Gcu Him and c~is rat" ~
Ills Determination to Take Tier
laCk Home tau~u the
Trouble Which Cost
Life.

Christmas morning James Fserce
& negro co wears ~ Age went IS the
home nc squire Keeers ale, cnlarea.
AlS lath~cr-sn-taw mcsr LrseyIlje. in
Ear;aa.s Creek township. 50 Ect hls
wife ana chHJrya. b had len him
For hNe lang months pierce had aud
erred up ANA down the land without q
wsfc. terrifying good people 1uI DEFY
lns tho law. ttlz wif,. al Industrious
and frugal woman reared III tne be1t.
"i g h.tFa working fAl&.gs% had been
hsaitFtat"d 10y beer 4n}4ultuus uB3.c AMI
about AN" months seHa. tbr Treatment
81 h'r by her husband passing thr eu-
dNfahe point. she returned te thr
nous of htr father Ior care and pace
| lection.
In the meantime Pierce Travelled ~
t'uslvoly III Virginia and the C8rolln4s
spending considerable Ilue In Rich
Iuuud. lie would write 10 ~. utfe
Who left him. ana the woman ana
>~ered the letters az her tguuHt ha4-
band. telling him that she wanted ia
see him, but SHE dad NOT pram#.a a.,
return 20 him again. b. had tried
ihat btiore-mauy tlmes-aud her
brutal htlp-m,,t weary oI g.ufIrn-ss.
with relentless uger-1fke f,eacly
cursed ana beat her.
The woman. Tired - his mean sYIrlt
aud bruised by his blows. returned ta
hcr father for the last time The
husband Gld not then cudruvor q. p@r-
Suade her tp go back to him. and leff
the place, only officers uf Tho law
hearing of him for some time W.--
rants for trcspass Were issued for him
In both Wake aud Granville counties.
ana these We're out when he was Il i'll
ed. II was said of him that hc Was
mean and desperate. and that the OFT
GERS feared him. lie had been lndl,t-
ed for Whipping his wife.
Christmas morning Pierce went to
TIE home of Rogers to get his Nife.
He had returned To the vicinity Of
LeesVillc several days before, with the
determination to spend Christmas
with his Wife. His father-iu-Iaw ala
not intend 10 put up longer with the
fellow, and when Prince arrived IT
the house he was ordered off. IL
gave trouble In leaving. and iuceusel
by his bad reception, left with threats
pouring from his tongue aud told sew
eral negroes that he was going 10 KIN
the old man.
Late in tho afternoon ne returued
to the house, armed witlt an uEiy knife
and brandishing il around him ad.
Nanced towards the door. there at
tempting to break in. Refusing e.
leave when ordered away. and atii
issuing threats voluminOusiy, "
having h appearance OF being highly
intoxicated, he created excitement and
the end Of il was that he was s1ot
12N I'M - dO6+ iAOBtI1 WIS tiiisiIl
Of him, and not knowing to what nor
rlbIc extent the black fiend's anger
ana hatred would carry him. no took
from It's place in tn" cornor of his
room an old doublc-baLrcl breach
loadlng shot gun, and cmpticd the
charge in his assailants abdomen.
Prince was killed instantly, and hls
BODY remained in Rogers yard till
after five O'Clock.
Rogers directly after the SHOOTING
sent for Deputy Sheriff j. !. Harvard.
ana submitted. He Wa.s taken before
justice of the Peace X. =. Honeycutt
and given n hearing. The ryidourD
clearly showed the innocence 81
rogers. proving the act To be justiia-
pie homicide, and the negro was given
his freedom.
Rogers is a respectable and wcll-to-
40 negro farmer, and lives ON the
plantation of w. G.. Jones. In Bartou'-
creek township, where ne has been
over HItecn years. He is 80 years
old ana the father of twelve children.
IAe dead man was Il Iaborer.