17-Year-Old Will Be Tried for Killing His 5-Year-Old Nephew, Oct. 14, 1919

From The Monroe Journal, Tuesday, Oct. 14, 1919

Young Man Will Face a Murder Charge This Week. . . Lawrence Haywood, Accused of Killing his Nephew on Aug. 21, 1917, to be Tried

Lawrence Haywood, age about 17 years, son of Doss Haywood, will face Superior court this week on the charge of killing is nephew, a five-year-old son of Gilmer Haywood of the Stouts community, on Aug. 21, 1917. At the time of the shooting it was claimed to be accidental, but the grand jury of the last term of court found a true bill against young Haywood, and he came back last week from West Virginia, where he had been working, to answer the charge.

The Baker’s correspondent of The Journal, in the issue of Aug. 21, gave the following account of the affair:

“A very distressing accident occurred yesterday afternoon when Lawrence Haywood shot and killed the little five-year-old son of his brother, Mr. Gilmber Haywood. The particulars of the affair have not been learned by the writer. The child lived only a few hours after it was shot.”