The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1908-11-23
MURDER IN FIRST DEG ZEE.

January s for Murder of Alex
McKoy Murder in Second
Degree and MansIaughter as
to Duncan Monroe and Law
renee Townsend for Killing
VIII Smith -Two-Weeks 7 erm
of Criminal Court Closed at
Midnight Saturday-Oth r
Cases.
Guilty OF murder i'll the first
degree.
70 be hanged by the neck
until dead on Friday, January g,
1909.
The above fateful verdict and
sentence were heard Friday
morning shortly after Robson
Superior Court convened at $50
O'Clock and Junius McKoy, 6
light-colored negro about 80 or
IS years old, is the convicted and
doomed man-convicted of the
murder at Rowland on February
22d last of Alex. McKoy, also
colored, and doomed to hang
therefor.
! To all appearances the pris-
oner heard the verdict and SEN
/ tonca unmOyed. He stood up
steadily, walked steadily and
showed no emotion, not realiz-
ing, apparently, just then the
awful import of what the jury
and the judge had said; failing
to grasp all at once the awful
fact that he had been convicted
of setting a limit to the life of a
man and that now the law had
set a limit to his days and had
decreed that on the 9th of next
January the mortal machine in
which he lives and moves shall
stop short, never to go again.
And so he walked steadily and
showed no emotion just then.
Judge J. Crawford Biggs has
been on the bench two years and
he will always remember Junius
McKoy as the first man he ever
sentenced to be hanged. 1t was a
trying moment for him, no
doubt, but sentence was passed
with all the sOlemnity and
impressiveness that the occasion
demanded.
When Coroner Rancke made
his Investigations in regard t.
the murder of Alex. McKoy he
committed June McKoy, the con
demned man, Berry Mclean ane
Frank Jacobs, all colored, to jai
for the murder. At the Jul!
term Of criminal court Solicitor
N. A. Sinclair sent in a bill
against Berry Mclean and jun
McKoy, but for reasons salts
factory to the State he did no
+ send bill against Frank Jacob
at that time, but continued hi
case and held him under a JUST
fed bond in the sum of 81, 600
At this term, last Tuesday, Nc
Lean and McKoy were put o.
o trial. At the close of the State
evidence, which all tended
, show McLean's innocence, Sc
D licitor Sinclair announced to tn
Y court that the State was nc
justified in asking for a vel
dict against Mclean and agree
that he be discharged. Mr.. G
B. Patterson, of Maxton, repre-
sented Mclean.
The evidence against June M
j. Koy was very conclusive. Til
!. testimony of 13 witnesses was
- the effect that he had arme
himself with three half-bricE
=, and had sought Alex. McKoy fl
| two or three hours on the nigl
e E McKoy was killed and had mao
q threats to do away with the de
: ceased because he (the deceased
was a liquor spy; that he did NJ
want but one d-n lick at hin
l. The evidence traced June McKc
/ step by step to Advil Brown
B. store a little before ten o'cloo
B. and followed him up across Il
7. street up which the deceased hi
m gone about five minutes befor
Alex. McKoy was never SEE
g alive again. Early next mornin
I'd about Is steps up the street fro
g Browns store, was found a pc
of blood three feet in length,
:. half-brick with hair on it al
lg Alex. McKoy's hat. Five wee
V, afterwards, about 900 feet fro
n. Browns store, within the corpo
IN ate limits of the town, was -four
a hole about four feet deep whiC
~ had been covered with brool
~ straw and small bushes al
which contained the body of t
Ts deceased, stuffed in head dow
In ward and with the legs bent
p get them in the hole.
ID It was also in evidence tn
June McKoy went to Berry M
ne Lean and begged him to help p
re Alex. McKoy out of the way, b
in Berry refused to have anythi,
oy to do with it, advised June to
ry the deceased alone, and we
lis home. On the witness stand
the prisoner denied making a
o, of the threats testified to a
stated that while he was passi
at the time deceased was kill
e. he saw Berry Mclean strike {
ceased with a brick.
Frank Jacobs is still held /
ed der bond. He seems from
ok evidence to have been with Ju
on McKoY about the time of t
Ter killing.