Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1952-04-02
SIX new
DEFENDANTS
ARE NAMED

After two day hearing, true
bills of indictment were returned
by the Grand Jury against Is
alleged members of the XII Klux
Khan in "a cases of flogging at
the one week term of Superior
Court which began in Whiteville
Monday.
Of primary interest through.
out the area was the indictment
of six more defendants not pre-
viously mentioned in the vio-
lence cases.
/; One of these was Jack Ashley,
present chief of police in Far
Bluff. All the defendants are
charged with conspiracy, kid
mapping and assault. The kid
mapping charge on North Caro-.
lima warrants carries maximum
penalty of life Imprisonment.
Grand Jury Foreman R. L.
Thompson of Hallsboro, brought
in the true bills shortly before
six o'clock Tuesday after the
group had heard witnesses for
the greater part of two days.
Judge William T. Hatch, solicitor
Clifton L. Moore and a few Off.
GERS and visitors were on hand
when the foreman made his re.
port.
Other persons who now face
charges who had not previously
been named, in addition to Ash.
ley, are Pittman Foy Strickland,
Harvey Barfield, Mack Norris.
Ernest Ward and George White.
The remaining 10 defendants
had been arrested previously by
S3I agents and county officers.
Seven of the rs persons indict-
ed also face federal charges of
kidnapping.
The indictments Stemmed from
the floggings the men allegedly
administered to Esthc' Lee
Floyd, Negro, Dorsey Robinson,
Negro, Woodrow Johnson and
Greer Pinkney Wright, all of
whom were kidnapped between
November II and December 29
CT last year.
Only three of the rs men indict-
ed today are charged With rarti.
cipation in as many as three OF
the floggings. These are George
Miller. 10, who was indicted in
the Wright, Floyd and Robinson
incidents. Eerly L. Brooks, "A, in
the Floyd, Robinson and John
son cases, and Steve Edmunds,
.26, in the Floyd, Robinson and
Johnson cases. Miller was
brought into the Wright case fcr
the first time today.
Richard Gore, 20, Whiteville
electrician, was also indicted IN
the Greer Wright flogging.
Defendants in both. the Floyd
and Robinson cases are E. L.
Ward. 40, Route 2, Chadbourn,
l.. C. Worley, rs, Fair Bluff, Pitt
man Foy Strickland, 20, Far
Bluff. julie C. Richardson, A.
Fair Bluff, Ed Floyd Rigers, Jr.,
Is, Fair Bluff, Hubert Hilburn,
81 Fair Bluff, Edwin Brooks, 20,
Fair Bluff and Florence, S. c.,
Bobby Brooks, IS, Fair Bluff ana
Raleigh, Bob Hayes, 3S, Fair
Bluff, Billy Horne, 25, Chadbourn
and Jack Ashley, Fair Bluff:
Johnson case defendants, in ad-
dition to Barfield, Norris, Ernest
. Ward and George White, Whc
were among the six indicted tor
the first time, are Henry Otto
Edwards, So, Whiteville, Ray
Kellv 43, Whiteville, Frank
Lewis. 81, Fair Bluff, John
Honeycutt, Jr., Chadbourn, ard
LEROY Honeycutt. Chadbourn.
Seven of the Is have been IN
dicted in federal court on charges
of kidnapping Dorothy Dillard
Martin and Ben Granger last
October. These are Early l..
Brooks, Bobby Brooks. strlck.
land, Hayes, Worley, Miller ana
Edmunds.
The federal and state indict'
ments thus far have covered the
cases of six flogging victims
leaving seven cases still unsolved.
The other victims were Clayton
Sellers, ]. M. Russ. Robert Lee
Gore, H. D. Best, Lawyer Jeral'
gan, Evergreen Flowers and Lee