Mrs. Evans Has Little Chance of Surviving Injuries Inflicted by Her Husband, September 1920

Raleigh, Sept. 18--Physicians hold out little hope of recovery of Mrs. Charles Evans, who was taken to Rex hospital Wednesday night with three knife wounds in her head and body, alleged to have been inflicted by her husband. Traumatic pneumonia has developed from the knife wound which punctured her right lung. Evans, who is also a patient at the hospital, suffering from a pistol wound and a broken arm, is under police guard charged with intent to kill his wife. It is the belief of the physicians who have examined Evans' injuries that he intended to commit suicide. (From the front page of the Hickory Daily Record, September 18, 1920.)