Wilfred Roseboro, NC, 1903 September 10

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"TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO: LANDMARK, APRIL L, 1937 - A front
page story told of browsing in the 1903 files of the
Landmark and finding the story of the last hanging to
take place in Iredell (County, Ne Ce) = the execution of
Wilfred Roseboro by Sheriff Summers on a gallows borrowed
from Buncombe Countye Roseboro had been convicted of
murdering a Cool Springs Township housewife and throwing
her body in the well.'"' This extract from the LANDMARK
an Iredell County paper, provided by Mrs. Mildred J.
Miller, Route 2, Box 128, Stony Point, NC 28678, 2/23/'83

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Pe (aan eek 10, 1903.6 (Special, ) - Wilfred Rose=

boro, colLore was execite 2 C4 ;
» Colored, was executed at Statesville, N. Cs, shortly

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ver noon today for criminally assaulting and killing

ROSEBORO, Wilfred ; |
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"TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO: LANDMARK, APRIL L, 1937 - A front
page story told of browsing in the 1903 files of the
Landmark and finding the story of the last hanging to
take place in Iredell (County, Ne Ce) = the execution of
Wilfred Roseboro by Sheriff Summers on a gallows borrowed
from Buncombe Countye Roseboro had been convicted of
murdering a Cool Springs Township housewife and throwing
her body in the well." This extract from the LANDMARK
an Iredell County paper, provided by Mrs. Mildred d.
Miller, Route 2, Box 128, Stony Point, NC 28678, 2/23/'83
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i Sept. 10, 1903. (Special.) - Wilfred
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after noon today for all; her

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assaulting and killing

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“TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO: LANDMARK, APRIL ‘L, 1937 - A front|
page story told of browsing in the 1903 files of the
ndmark and finding the story of the last hanging to
take place in Iredell (County, Ne Ce) - the execution of
Wilfred Roseboro by Sheriff Summers on a gallows borrowed
from Buncombe County. Roseboro had been convicted of
murdering a Cool Springs Township housewife and throwing
her body in the well." This extract from the ure
an Iredell County paper, provided by Mrs. Mildre:
Lee Route 2, Box 128, eae fone NC 28678, ied
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