Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1921-05-13

down town and prepared to oper
their campaign. They had just
eaten supper when policemen ar.
rived and carried them off to jail.
They told the officers where they
left the girl. Late in the night
they saw her brought into the
Jail. They say she was drunk
when she arrived there, and that
officers. told them that they had
picked l.er up on the street with
two men. All are said to have
been drinking"
After reading the above in
Mondays News and Observer,
the writer accompanied by Chief
Jackson and a Mr.. Carson, (who
is in the employ of the News and
Observer, but not on the news
staff again went to see the girls,
read to them what Sharpe and
Burleyson claimed, and they de-
MED every insinuated allega-
ton and made their same state
ment almost word for word. The
girls were not together when
seen by the writer either time.
The following article was dis
patched to the News and Obser-
yer which they did not publish
Tuesday but wrote one them
selves, getting the facts twisted
miserably, as will be easily noted
by one reading both articles.
The statements made by the
Sharpe brothers and Alonza Bur-
Lesson as printed in the News and
Observer Monday morning are in
the opinion of many here as ap.
parently as cowardly as the das-
tardly crime they are accused Of.
The beef-iron and wine which
Burleyson would have the public
believe Miss Gillespie was drug
ged" with, was according to a
statement of her brother, James
Gillespie, Jr., bought by him in
Weldon Saturday night for his
wife, who is in a poor state of
health and has been taking this
tonic for some time. Mr.. GILES.
pie said his sister did take some
of this Saturday night.
1t must be remembered, how
ever, that this happened Satur-
day night and not Sunday night
when the girls say they were as
saulted.
When told that her assailants
said she forced herself in the car,
saying that her brother had as
saulted her, she declared this
was not so and again told of be-
ing left behind the Methodist
Church, while Burleson and
Sharpe went for the other
Sharpe brother, stating that at
this time she was in a stupor
and unable to walk or even cry
for help. 1t will be remembered
that this was between two and
three O'Clock Monday A. M.
Miss Gillespie still sticks to
her statement that they left her
in front of Mrs. Ester's boarding
house in South Boston and she
went to the home ofian old gran
ny whom she had known for
years, and sthat it, was there
while asleep in bed she was ar.
rested and carried to Jail.
We have as yet been unable
to find anyone who can cast re-
Election upon the character of
either of the girls. Miss Giles
pie has lived here only a few
weeks and all who know her
that we have talked with, say
they have never heard naught
against her. Miss Barkley is
is only a girl of sixteen, is small
and under.d developed for that
age, and has not yet recovered
from the shock of her horrible
experience of eight day ago.
Miss Barklev when told that
the men said that they carried
her home, replied bitterly that
they did not, that she cried and
begged them to take her home
and they would not. That when
the car reached the corner near
the tent in Rosemary, she opened
the car door, jumped from the
car and ran to her aunt's near
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