Will Allan Killed by Johnnie Gordon at Goldsboro Rooming House, Jan. 29, 1921

Salisbury, Jan. 29—Police officers were advised shortly after midnight of the killing at 9:30 last night of Will Allan, a negro, by Johnnie Gordon, another negro, at a rooming house. Gordon used an axe. After the homicide, he helped a colored woman put the body on a bed, wiped the blood stains from his ands and went to the Yadkin Hotel, where he was employed as elevator boy, drew $2 from the clerk and escaped. It is believed that the occupants of the house gave Gordon plenty of time in which to escape. Gordon is said to have come here from Jacksonville, Fla.

(From the front page of the Hickory Daily Record, Jan. 29, 1921)