POLITICAL MIXING WITH NEGROES MEANS MISCEGENATION; THE AWFUL PRICE PAMLICO’S SHERIFF PAID FOR THE POLITICAL SUPPORT OF THE NEGRO VOTERS; A WARNING THAT WHITE FATHERS SHOULD HEED, a headline in the News and Observer read. Daniels’s reporters underscored the point by reporting, without evidence, that Bessie had attempted to abort her bastard child but died from a “concentrated lye given her by her negro destroyer.”
