The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1922-01-28
NORTH CAROLINA DE-
MANDS MAN HELD in CAN
ADA.
Much Interest Aroused in
Case. Is First Of its Kind on
Record.

Jackson. ~ c., Jan. 26-Announce-
ment was made at the office Of Solicit
for Midyette here that the paptrs in
the case of Matthew Bullock, Ne
gro under arrest at Hamilton, onta-
with a request that the Governor ask
the State Department at Washington
TO arrange for extradition Of the Ne
gro to North Carolina for trial on sew
eral charges growing out of the at
tack made on white men by Negroes
at the Norlina railway station on the
night of Jan. 23. 1921. Bullock is al
legged to have been the leader of the
Negroes.
! Two young white men, named Tay-
lor, Were shot and dangerously wound
ed and an engineer was slightly in
jured. The trouble is said to have
been the outgrowth of an argument
Plummer Bullock, Matthews brother,
had with clerk over the purchase
of 10 cents worth Of apples. Plummer
Bullock. although not a member of
the attcking party, and Alfred Will
liams were removed from Warren
County pail on the night of Jan. "a
by masked men and lynched
Bullock will not be handed over to
the police of Norlina, N. c., at once.
f. F. Trealevan his counsel, was ad-
vised at Hamilton that Inspector Rey-
nolds OF the Dominion Department
! or immigration had served Governor
Ogilvie of the jail with a war
rant directing that Bullock be held
in Canada. American authorities must
show that they have a bona fide
charge against the man before ne will
be deported
In an editorial on the case of Mat
interest in Canada,
The Toronto Globe says:
Matthew Bullock is under arrest
IN Hamilton as a fugitive from justice
IN North Carolina, where, It is alleg-
| ing which a number of persons were
shot, but none fatally. Following the
! riot. Bullock's brother--the young Ne
| gro whose quarrel with a white gro
Ger as to the quality of some apples
sold to him seems to have been the
first cause of the disturbance-was
ohed.
Matthew Bullock. fearing the same
fate, set out for the Northern States
and ultimately for Canada. Admission
was refused by the immigration Off
Gals in March last Bullock crossed
on tne Ice at Fort Erie, thereby
breaking Canadian laws. Since that
time he has been living and working
in Hamilton, where, apparently, he has
given trouble to the police. He says
he would rather spend a long time in
a Canadian jail than go back to North
| Carolina, where, he asserts, he is ell
most certain 10 be lynched as his
brother was
THE crime with which Bullock is
charged is an eXtraditable one Under
the treaty that provides for the ex-
change of persons charge with crime
in Canada or the United States who
cross the border to evade the law
there Is no doubt at all that Matthew
Bullock is in Canada illegally. anc
under normal circumstances he would
have to be sent back to stand tria
That is the law.
but behind the legal situation there
is the ugly fact that Bullocls brother
did not stand trial, but was strung
up outside of the /jall that failed e
shelter him from the mob. This coun-
try would feel that it had not give
Matthew Bullock a square deal If /.
were to be sent back to North Caro-.
lima under an eXtradition order only
to meet fate like that of his bro.
Their.