Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-09-29
MAN ARRESTED IN
AUGUsT|NE At TER
"a YEARS LIBERTY
|Confesses to Shooting a
Ma nat His Home IN
North Carolina
John Mccormick Is
Recovered; to Come
Home for Big Tour
fsnecial to The News.)

ct. Augustine, oept' 80"
!, +ha lonely woods Of North Caroiln"
or,,, . half century ago, A years I"
g evasion of the law, and the estaD- "
T. i;shment of the old saying tnat 'ne >
I'D is a small place indeed "er' \
,".ouob+ to light with the arrest yes {
80, of 7 W. English alias Joseph
p Ksmn bv Sheriff E. E. Boyee yes
4ordav in connection with the kilfng
of Daniel Mcneil at Red SPRINGS N
G, on August Is, 1873 4+ isI
Tho silence of Kemp, for that Is
L. name he admitted he went under
e Nortb Carilna, was broken TINS
, bo,rinc when he related the STORY u
J he shooting. r,,o,.;da over a
.ars Of years, he stated, and came
nv 81 Augustine about year "so
y novtona. The story Of MS ar
u 81 si,' after "A years of absence from
: scpne of the killing, which ne Salo
III lsft that very night, is a strange
:, s..eral weeks ago, about dusk, Z
.anoer was seated on bench gus
,t19nf the city gates. Kemp stop
=. - rest and ,5e4alino apa3eab.,-l lt1ie a.,
oafng the course OF snort nan io''
u il developed that the two men Wer
81, originally from the same locality an
lt with the mention of the Mcneil XII
a, ing. Kemp appeared almost too Il
" oil;ar with the details. The strange
- became suspicious and took the ma
: Tor nm with relatives of the dead ma
- in North Carolina. Several days az
,'Il A description of the hunted man,
i'S old tin type portrait of him taken
. the age of II and the fact that )
Iseph Kemp had been indicted Tor IN
degree murder.
Sheriff Boyce placed the y
who called himself English under
rest. He was employed by lo'
I'D contractor as a carpenter and W
at work remodeling a house on 5
Marco avenue.
ling Sheriff Lewis, of Robinson coun
men North Carolina, was immediat
kill communicated with, and word '
the received that he would come
q, mediately to carry the prisoner b
'day to the scene of the killing, which
am admitted.
Kemp told authorities that he
trial familiar with the killing, but VIC
was admit nothing. He was inclined
-hich be silent when questioned. W
.ould asked the direct question, Did
murder McNeil?" he answered "l
four but when asked whether he shot
10 De man he at first refused to ans
re to With further questioning, howe
ward he told the following story;
ne OF At the age of two years he
rhers taken to Red Springs, n, c. th'
place of a few dwellings in the W
10 which a railroad had not yet
iOLl run. to live with an uncle whose
he said <was Mcneil and relate
ION the man who was killed.
The story came back clearly
out vividly to the man who, A years
erwards, stood for the first TINT
hind prison bars IPere was Il
ooN- Idissention, he said. All Of the a'
'ttilng he would not state, he added u
me 'oI forced to do so on the stand.
2 ana Accompanied by Daniel N
proved and his brother, NJ. Mcneil, W
the still alive and said to be tue
was living witness to the shooting h
4 tied a negro on business. Owe
DeS- business an, argument arose in
Tor the word "lie" was passed.
: fough would not disclose the cause
le efcing argument. Kemp stated that
rs due took the argument up, stating
man YOU call me liar?" to which
lc said he replied, If you say ths
= In are one"
=. Sunq He said that then MsNeil
III ,bn- leued him with an axe and ne
Ebts ed away from the scene. Men
allowed him. he continued, and
..,acbed he turned in time t