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    HIGH POINT CONFIDENTIAL: One family’s feud - Brothers targeted area police chief with dynamite in 1929

    By JIMMY TOMLIN ENTERPRISE STAFF WRITER,

    1 day ago
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    Randleman Police Chief C.W. Myers lost an eye — and nearly lost his life — when someone wired a stick of dynamite to his car in 1929. SPECIAL | HPE

    RANDOLPH COUNTY — Talk about a blast from the past.

    You should’ve seen all the excitement at the High Point Hospital on the afternoon of Nov. 1, 1929, when Randleman Police Chief Charles W. Myers was rushed there from his home in Randleman. The veteran officer’s right eye was missing, and his horrifically lacerated face and neck looked as if he had shaved that morning with a piece of barbed wire.

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