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Sunday, November 8, 2020

Walter Salmon Surrenders to Salisbury Police Chief, Nov. 8, 1920

By the Associated Press, Salisbury, N.C.--Walter Salmon, a young former world war soldier lately of Morganton, who is alleged to have shot and killed Aca Fleindenshell at Greenville, S.C., last Friday afteroon and robbed him of $300, gave himself up to Chief of Police Kesler last night. Salmon's wife is a relative of Mrs. Kesler and the man saw in a newspaper that she was visiting at the home of the officer and he came here from Spartanburg and went to the chief's home and gave himself up. Mrs. Salmon was not at the home of the chief at the time, but was visiting relatives in the country. She saw him at the jail today. Salmon told officers he did ot get the $300 and intimated that he would tell the full story later in the day. (From the front page of the Hickory Daily Record, Nov. 8, 1920). The last name of the victim is spelled differently from an earlier news story. I don't know which is correct.

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