1 Sep 1910
Raleigh Register, Beckley, West Virginia - Submitted by Nancy Hannah
DISCHARGED NEGRO DRIVES SHARP PICK INTO MAN’S BACK
Harry Withrow, Chesapeake
& Ohio railroad section foreman, was murdered at Huntington last Saturday by Charles
Clayburn, a Negro, who had been a member of the section crew, of which Withrow
had charge.
CRAP GAME LEADS TO MURDER
A crap game at Springton Sunday night terminated in a shooting affray in which
John Young was instantly killed by Walter
Simpson. Young had previously beaten Simpson with an iron bolt. Simpson
broke loose from two men who were taking him to jail and is still at large. Both men are Negroes.
25 Jul 1912
Raleigh Register, Beckley, West Virginia - Submitted by Nancy Hannah
Wasn’t Clark Wiley
The Register last week stated that Clark Wiley had been arrested for creating a disturbance at Mabscott. As a matter of fact, the offender
was Claude Wiley, and the error arose
through the similarity of names, though no one knowing them both would think for a moment of charging the actions
of Claude against Clark, who is known as one of the best and most highly respected citizens of the community.
NEGRO WAS KILLED OFFICER WOUNDED
In a Difficulty Which Occurred at Slab Fork Late Friday Night
OFFICER WAS SHOT IN THE BACK
Last Friday night Officer Nat Ressler,
of the Baldwin-Felts agency, who is also a deputy sheriff, was called upon by the management of the merry-go-round
operating at that place to eject from the premises a Negro named Burton, who had been riding the machine, but refused either to pay or get off, and resisted when
the officer attempted to place him under arrest.
During the scuffle which followed, a brother of the Negro came up behind Ressler and shot him three
times, the most serious of the wounds being made by a ball which penetrated his abdomen.
Despite the seriousness of his wounds Ressler managed to draw his gun and open fire on the Negro who
had shot him in the back, wounding him so seriously that his death resulted almost instantly. The Negro was at
least 50 feet distant when he was shot by Ressler, who was lying on the ground at the time.
The wounded officer was placed on a train and hurried to the hospital at Princeton, where at last accounts
he was lying in a critical condition, with the chances for recovery against him.
The Negro who was the original cause of the trouble succeeded in making his escape.
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