Pender County NcArchives News.....Frank Powers 1896
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Charlotte Daily Observer 1896
14 Aug 1896

Two Children Beaten to Death by a 10-year old Boy

Mr. W.H. French, of Rocky Point, brought news yesterday of a murder or murders 
last Saturday in Holly township, Pender County.

The facts, as told by Mr. French, are as follows: Mr. Frank Powers and wife 
left their two children (one 14 months old and the other two years old) at Mr. 
and Mrs. Bryant Mill's house, with the latter's three children, while the old 
folks went out to pick dog-tongue. While gone Mr. Mills' 10-year-old son beat 
the Powers children unmercifully because they began crying for their parents, 
and said when the old folks returned and found one dead and the other at the 
point of death, that he did it to keep them from crying.

It was a sad affair and the entire community sympathize with the two families. 
It was thought that the Powers children had also been cut with a knife.


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