Thursday, June 20, 2019

Willie Williams Acquitted of Murder, June 20, 1919

From The Franklin Times, Louisburg, N.C., June 20, 1919

Williams Acquitted

Willie Williams was tried in Louisburg Tuesday before Magistrates R.L. Stokes and A.W. Alston for shooting George Marshal and was acquitted. The parties involved were all colored and the shooting took place at a negro ice cream supper near the Warren County line. From the information we get, a “racket” was started in which Williams and Marshall were engaged and Williams got hold of a .38 caliber pistol and emptied it. Two balls took effect in the building, two in Marshall’s head and one in the thigh of a colored woman named Becky Harrison. Constable J.B. Smith caught Williams and brought him to Louisburg Monday for trial. The reports from the victims Tuesday did not seem that they were in any immediate danger.


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