Maxton, Oct. 24. – M.A. SUTHERLAND, while intoxicated, was arrested by Officer J.S. SMITH, it is claimed, because of something that SUTHERLAND said to him. SUTHERLAND, it is said, was not violent, but when the officer started to arrest him he resisted feebly. On this SMITH struck him to the ground, striking him again after he fell. A bystander caught the stick, and SMITH was arrested. Some ugly wounds were inflicted on SUTHERLAND’s head, and for hours he was unconscious, but he will recover. SMITH’s attorneys waived a preliminary examination and the defendant was bound over to superior court in a $200 bond.

Source: Kinston Free Press, October 25, 1905