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episode 15: Episode -15 The Murder of W. W. “Bill” Ormond by Mr. William Bonaparte Cole.
Episode -15 The 1925 Murder of W. W. “Bill” Ormond by Mr. William Bonaparte Cole.
Part one. Saturday June 1st at 7:00 pm.
William Bonaparte Cole started in N.C. textiles at the age of fifteen as a mill bookkeeper in Rockingham, NC. Cole was able to advance himself to becoming a powerful Mill Owner, Businessman and resident of Rockingham North Carolina.
W. “Bill” Ormond, a veteran of the trench warfare of World War One was a young man returning home from war. He becomes romantically involved with William Cole’s daughter. An excepted relationship, until the Young Miss Cole turns her attentions in another direction. This sets former suitor against father in a name calling and threatening confrontation that does not end well for Mr. Ormond.
Scheduled for the next day, June 02, 2019 at 7:00 PM. Episode 16, Part two.
The Murder of “Bill” Ormond. At the 1925 court case the Idea of "The unwritten law" is also put on trail. The increasingly more common acquittal concept coming from juries, that, “some times a guy just needs to get shot”. Right or wrong? Was Fair and proper justice seen in this case? Or is this one of the first so called battles between the 1 percent and the 99 percent spoken of in today's media? Listen for your self and decide.
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