Biography
R. J. Gregory was a textile worker and witness in the proceedings over Ella May Wiggins’s killing. The Daily Worker identified him as twenty-seven years old in November 1929 and reported that Judge Shaw sentenced him on a non-support charge to one year on a county road chain gang. A later report placed him on the Mecklenburg County chain gang. The newspaper alleged that the prosecution retaliated against his testimony; this is the newspaper’s account, rather than an independently established judicial finding. The reports do not establish his physical admission or release dates or how much of the imposed year he actually served.
R. J. Gregory was a textile worker and witness in the proceedings over Ella May Wiggins’s killing. The Daily Worker identified him as twenty-seven years old in November 1929 and reported that Judge Shaw sentenced him on a non-support charge to one year on a county road chain gang. A later report placed him on the Mecklenburg County chain gang. The newspaper alleged that the prosecution retaliated against his testimony; this is the newspaper’s account, rather than an independently established judicial finding. The reports do not establish his physical admission or release dates or how much of the imposed year he actually served.
Sources: Daily Worker, November16,1929,page2; Daily Worker, November26,1929,page3.
