Sunday, January 19, 2020

Nash Bryant Charged With Murdering His Wife, Jan. 19, 1920

The Hickory Daily Record, January 19, 1920

Is Charged With Murder of Wife

Dunn, N.C., Jan. 19—Nash Bryant, prominent farmer of Harnett county, was jailed on a warrant charging him with the killing of his wife last Monday night. The body of Mrs. Bryant will be exhumed Monday for examination.

Mrs. Bryant was killed by a pistol shot, which the coroner’s jury said after the shooting, was fired accidentally by her husband. The latter claimed he asked his wife for his pistol and that as he grasped it form her hand, the barrel toward her, the gun was discharged.

Members of Mrs. Bryant’s family, dissatisfied with the result of the coroner’s jury, undertook an independent investigation and the result of Bryant’s arrest today followed.

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