The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-11-21

clothes. The pistol he had threatned
me with was large bright one.
feel sure could identify him if l saw
him again.
The negro also told her, she said
that he was from Roanoke. This was
all that she could say by way Of furn
lshing clue to the criminals iden
t1ty. After the negro had left her
she made her way back to the street
In front of the park, where she met a
number of people who had been seek
ing her in every direction.
What became of her husband after
he was shot was told by Mr.. J. S
Pullman, who owns the store towards
which the man and his wife had start
ed.
Cries Heard.
Several people, the car motorman
amQng them, heard groans and out
cries in the direction of the trestle, '
said Mr.. Pulliam. ST heard them my.
self and several of us started in that
direction. We, came upon Mr.. Child
ress dragging himsefe towards the
road He was seemingly in a desper.
ate condition, and we examined him
as we'll as we could by moonlight. He
was shot through the stomach and
through the head"
Mr.. ChiIdress Talks.
I'VE asked him what was the MAJ
ter, and he said that he had been he'd
up by a negro and robbed; that he
and his wife had been forced from
the road to a deep gully and into 1T,
where she was shot and killed and he
away dragging the wife's body. Some
nc n n
been taken from him, and he answer
ed not very much, as he did not have
very much with him"
Officers Summoned.
Mr.. Pulliam, seeing that the wound
ed mans condition, was desperate,
hurried to the store and 'phoned for
both the police and for an ambulance.
The ambulance came in very short
time, and the wounded man was hur-
ried to the hospital. Sheriff Flynt,
Chief Thomas and several members
Of their force were soon on the scene
of the crime. But before they arrived,
hastily assembled bodies of white and
colored people were securing the i'm
mediate vicinity for the woman S
body It could not be found for rea-
sons already given
The hospital reported at late hour
was very critical, not believed to be
'hopelessly fatal. He was resting easy
and there was some chnce that he
would live. He was shot through the
head and through the lower part of
the abdomen.
Mrs. Childress was in very Sc
rious nervous condition after her ter
rible experience. She said later that
she also had been robbed, in addition
to the other horrors which she had
suffered. She had only small sum
with her-$225-which was taken.
Mr.. and Mrs. Childress have been
living at Inverness for several years.
Mr.. Childress is reported TO be about
63 years of age. They have three
daughters, the youngest being eleven
years old Several of their immediate
neighbors said that they we're known
as honest, hard working and inOffen-
sive people.
Every effort is being made by both
the county and city authorities to ap-
prehend the negro responsible for the
crimes.
The Hunt Begins.
Soon after the dastardly crime was
committed, officers were on the scene
searching for the negro, who couldn't
have gotten very far away. Along
about 10 O'Clock Sheriff George w.
Flynt and Chief of Police J. A. Thorn
as met a white boy on the railroad
near the Mengle Box Company switch
who stated taht he had been held up
and robbed by negro few minutes
before. The officers hurried on and
overlook three negroes, a woman and
two men, who separated. A man and
the woman ran off from the railroad
and the other man took down the
track. Sheriff Flynt took near cut
and tried to head off the negro VINO
was alone, Chief Thomas looking after
the others, who were soon lost sight
of.
that he was following on the railroad
track a short distance from where he
was first seen, and when ordered to
halt, he began firing and about the
same time the sheriff's gun was
brought into play. =
Sheriff Wounded.
Sheriff Flynt was hit in the right
hand, probably by the first shot hred