Wayne County NcArchives News.....Death of Mag Dinkins April 22, 1898
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The Semi-Weekly Messenger (Wilmington NC) April 22, 1898
Goldsboro Jottings
(Correspondence of The Messenger)
Goldsboro, April 19
Superior court convened in this city this morning with Judge Timberlake
presiding and Solicitor Pou at his post. Among the cases on the criminal docket
which have been set for trial at this term of court is that of Gil Ward for the
murder of Mag Dinkins. Although this crime was committed about five years ago,
yet it was so barbaric and brutal in character that the long intervening years
have not sufficed to efface it from the memory of the people of Wayne county.
The murder occurred on Sunday morning after Ward had been drinking all Saturday
night. Mag Dinkins was his mistress and they lived on his plantation near Saul's
Cross Roads in this county. The woman knew of his terrible temper when he was
drunk, and on this sad occasion for her, she had been keeping out of his reach
all night. She had been told that Ward would beat her when he found her. After
pursuing her from house to house in the neighborhood he finally overtook her at
a negro house. When he came upon her he seized her by the arm with one hand and
with the other he drew his knife from his pocket, opened the blade with his
teeth and stabbed her in the breast. She never spoke. The knife pierced her
heart and she reeled and fell to the ground, dead. Ward took to the woods and
succeeded in evading the arm of the law until a short while ago, when he was
captured in Texas. He was placed in the county jail in Raleigh until last
Wednesday, when he was brought to Goldsboro and placed in jail and is now
awaiting to answer for his rash deed.

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