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Tuesday, February 2, 2021

9-Year-Old Girl Arrested for Shooting Woman Who Refused to Give Her Snuff, Feb. 2, 1921

By the Associated Press

Statesville, N.C., February 2—When Alice Wilson, negro woman, refused to give her a “dip of snuff,” Lillie May Connihead (?), also a negress, 9 years of age, late yesterday afternoon ran into her home, secured a shotgun and fired upon the woman, wounding her fatally, it is believed.

The Connihead girl has been arrested. The Wilson woman originally was from Catawba county, it is said.

From the front page of the Hickory Daily Record, February 2, 1921

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