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FOSTER, Ben and AXIS, Dudley
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Foster, an Asheville, N. Cy, black, and Johiston, a hative of Flori-
da, with two other menHardy Miller of Asheville and Russ Gates of
Tennessee, plotted to rob a prosperous general store in. Exama., at the
time BREXE a mubooge suburb of Asheville. On the night of Feb, 8,
~ 1901, they persuaded the young clerk who BAXB slept in the rear of |
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their making a purchase. Once inside, the men who were masked for-
ced Alexander at gunpoint to open the store's safe. Miller and Gates
_were_standing as lockouts while TFoster_and Johnston were robbing the-
safe when Alexander pulled a gun and WEMNASG shot Foster in the
body. Johnston then shot Alexander, wounding him seriously but the ~
__._ determined clerk was_able to get off another shot that BRE struck
Johnston in the jaw. ‘The four men made their escape, but they were
chee bra.c cked because of the wounds suffered by Foster and Johnston.
XO Fi BEXBS ERS EXER Alexander survived his wound,_ and the.
four men were - charged and convicted of first degree burglary and sen-
“tenced to hang. Their case was taken to the Supreme Vourt on the ~
_grounds that the place that they had entered was a store and not a
residence, but the Supreme Court upheld the verdict stating that
~tnasmuch as Alexander resided in the store it was a residence as————
FOSTER, Ben and XXENEQ, Dudley
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Foster, a Ashe eville, N. C., black, and Jobin aston, a hative of Flori-
da, with two other menHardy Miller of Asheville and Russ Vates of
Tennessee, mistbed to rob a prosperous general store in Eiama, at the
time BEXE a suboog suburb of Asheville. On the night of Feb, 8,
“1901, they persuaded the young clerk who BAXB slept in the rear of
the store, Samuel H, Alexander, eats doors onthe pretext of
their making a purchase. Once inside, the mo an who were masked for=
ced Alexander at gunpoint to jopen the “store's » Miller and Gates
were standing as lookouts while Poster and Nae were robbing the_
safe when Alexander pulled a gun and KEMKASMGH shot Foster in the
“body. Johnston then shot Alexander, wounding him seriously but the
determined clerk was able to get off another shot that BRE struck
Johnston in the jaw. ‘The four men made their escape, but they were
geet tracked because of the wounds suffered by Toster and Johnston,
4 WERE Alexander survived his wound, and the
four men were charged and convicted of fir de gree burg lary and sen-
tenced to hang. Their “@ was taken to the Supreme Court on
grounds that the place that they had entered was a
residence, but the Supreme Court upheld the verdict
ue much as Alexander resided in the store it-was-a-
Ben and XQNEON, Dudley
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» with two other Sate *yaller of Asheville and Russ
Tonnessec , ee to rob 8 prosperous general st: n is
On the night of Fob,
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Johnston wer
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