Joseph SCALES, a negro aged 15, is in jail at Reidsville for outraging a 6-year-old daughter of Mrs. John HUSKEY, who captured him herself and marched over to the house at the muzzle of a revolver. There she range the farm bell and men came and took the young brute to jail. Only his youth saved him from lynching.

Source: Roanoke Beacon, 7 September 1900.  Available online at digitalnc.org.