Yancey County NcArchives News.....An Eighteen Year Old Youth to Hang December 10, 1897 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Natasha Miles bittersweet3@yahoo.com June 1, 2020, 5:41 pm The Semi-Weekly Messenger (Wilmington NC) December 10, 1897 An Eighteen Year Old Youth to Hang (Special to The Messenger) Raleigh, NC December 8 - The supreme court decided that Riley Pate, and 18-year-old boy of Yancey county must suffer the death penalty for the murder of a 15-year-old boy, his friend. They were on a frolic and Pate, who was drunk, shot him. The court expresses much sympathy in the case. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/yancey/newspapers/aneighte770gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ncfiles/ File size: 1.0 Kb