Source: NC Christian Advocate, 14 January 1915. Available at the Internet Archive.
Category Archives: McDowell
HENSLEY, Nora H. – (d. 1914)
Source: NC Christian Advocate, 14 January 1915. Available at the Internet Archive.
Edwin Brown Arrested (1889)
In our last issue we mentioned the killing of an Editor, Roger J. PAGE, of Marion, NC. A late dispatch from Marion tells us that one Edwin BROWN, charged with the homicide went to the Sheriff’s office voluntarily and surrendered. He waived examination and was committed to await his trial at the October term of the Superior Court.
Source: Roanoke Beacon, 9 August 1889. Available online at digitalnc.org.
PAGE, Roger, J. (d. 1889)
Sensational Murder Over A Woman at Marion, NC
Col. Roger J. PAGE, a prominent lawyer and editor of the Times-Register at Marion, N.C. was shot and instantly killed at that place just after alighting from the midnight train, which brought him from Round Knob.
He had gone a hundred yards from the station, and was leaning on the arm of his friend, Judge HAYWOOD, of Texas, while on his left was another friend, when someone came up behind him and shot him through the neck, which was broken by the ball. His assailant ran, mounted a horse and fled the town. A coroner’s inquest was hurriedly held, rendering a verdict of death by a person unknown.
A young man had threatened to kill Col. PAGE, and was seen following the dead man at the station. Quite a crowd had gathered, expecting trouble, and, indeed, the rumor that some one intended injuring Colonel PAGE was current in the town, and when the pistol shot was fired at midnight many persons remarked that Col. PAGE was in trouble.
It is said that a woman is at the bottom of the tragedy.
Source: Roanoke Beacon, 2 August 1889. Available online at digitalnc.org.
SPENCER, Chas. (d. 1885)
Horrible Murder in McDowell County — On Sunday there was discovered in Mill creek, near Old Fort, the body of a negro man, named Chas. SPENCER, with his neck broken and his skull crushed. There is little or no doubt but that the negro came to his death by violence. The following, from this mornings Advance, gives the facts in the premises, which are in keeping with the information we have obtained.
SPENCER was employed on the railroad as a section hand, and came up to the town of Old Fort, Thursday evening, where he met two young men by the name of YARBOROUGH, both of whom were drinking to excess. At the earnest solicitation of these young men, SPENCER accompanied them home. One of them says that he came with SPENCER a portion of the way back and left him. The next day, Friday, he was not seen by any of the citizens in the neighborhood, and Saturday his family became uneasy and instituted a search for him. The body was found Sunday morning, with the neck broken and a portion of the skull bone broken in, lying in the edge of a creek, about 75 yards below where YARBBOROUGH says he parted with him.
A coroner’s jury was summoned Sunday and an inquest held. The evidence disclosed the facts above stated. The jury returned a verdict that the deceased came to his death at the hands of party or parties to them unknown.
The Asheville citizen. (Asheville, N.C.), 22 April 1885. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. <http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84020682/1885-04-22/ed-1/seq-1/>
PRATT and SHEHAN Killed (1905)
Chapter of Fatal Accident
Asheville, Oct. 26. – Jas. PRATT and Mrs. Dan SHEHAN, of Marion, were run over by a passing train near Nebo, a station five miles from Marion, last night, and instantly killed. Few details of the accident have been received, but it is stated that these two and Mrs. PRATT, wife of the victim to the accident, were walking along the track and failed to heed an on-coming train. Another account has it that the couple were killed. Both bodies were horribly mangled, and it is stated that fragments of the man’s body were scattered along the track for some distance. Both Mrs. SHEHAN and PRATT were elderly.
There was another fatal accident near Marion last night when Horace NICHOLS, aged 24, the son of a prominent McDowell county farmer, was run over by a local freight and had both legs completely severed from his body. He died at Biltmore hospital early this morning. It is said that NICHOLS was also walking the track when a train struck him and inflicted the injuries that resulted in his death.
Robert WILLIAMS, a section hand of the Southern Railway, was also struck by an engine yesterday near Balsam, Jackson county, but his injuries, while serious, are not thought to be fatal. His nose was broken and he was otherwise painfully cut and bruised.
Earle SMITH, an employee of a planning mill, at Marshall, Madison county, was yesterday caught in the machinery and seriously, if not fatally injured. He was attempting to make some repairs when he was caught in the belting, carried into the machinery and horribly crushed. One leg was splintered and he sustained other serious injuries.
Source: Kinston Free Press, October 27, 1905