{"id":254,"date":"2009-01-05T13:39:49","date_gmt":"2009-01-05T20:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/martin\/?p=254"},"modified":"2009-01-05T13:39:49","modified_gmt":"2009-01-05T20:39:49","slug":"mob-operates-on-man-charged-with-assaulting-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/mob-operates-on-man-charged-with-assaulting-girl\/","title":{"rendered":"Mob Operates on Man Charged with Assaulting Girl"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the March 30, 1925 issue of the Robesonian, newspaper of Lumberton, NC<\/strong><\/p>\n

A mob, numbering 50 or more, forced their way into the Martin County jail at Williamston,N.C., about 3 o’clock this morning and took therefrom Joseph A. Needleman, traveling salesman for a tobacco company, and carried him to a nearby piece of woods where a serious operation was performed upon him, according to a telephone message received here tonight from Deputy Sheriff Luther Peel, at Williamston.\u00a0 Needleman is now in a Washington, N.C., hospital, and his condition is regarded as serious.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Needleman, according to Deputy Peele, had been lodges in the Martin county jail on charge of\u00a0 making at attack on a 17 year-old girl, whome he had out riding recently.\u00a0 About 2:30 o’clock this morning, the deputy stated, several men went to the house of Sheriff H.T. Robeson and demanded that the keys of the jail be turned over to them.\u00a0 Sheriff Robeson, he said, refused to accede to the demands of the mob.\u00a0 Before he could dress and secure assistance, however, the men had forced the bars of the jail and removed the prisoner.<\/p>\n

On leaving the jail the mob took Needleman to a nearby piece of woods, where the operation was performed.\u00a0 A knife, according to Deputy Peele, was used in performing the operation.\u00a0 The members of the mob then left in automobiles, leaving their victim behind.\u00a0 He was found a fwe minutes later by Sheriff Robeson and a posse he had organized to disperse the mob.<\/p>\n

Sheriff Robeson, according to the deputy, is making a thorough investigation of the affair, but anticipates no further trouble.\u00a0 Needleman gave his age, when arrested last Friday on the assualt charge, as 21.\u00a0 He makes his headquarters at Kinston, N.C.,\u00a0 but claims that his home is in New Jersey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the March 30, 1925 issue of the Robesonian, newspaper of Lumberton, NC A mob, numbering 50 or more, forced their way into the Martin County jail at Williamston,N.C., about 3 o’clock this morning and took therefrom Joseph A. Needleman, traveling salesman for a tobacco company, and carried him to a nearby piece of woods … Continue reading “Mob Operates on Man Charged with Assaulting Girl”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22493],"tags":[22580,22588,22596],"class_list":["post-254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspaper-extract","tag-needleman","tag-peele","tag-robeson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}