Winston-Salem, June 13—Mrs. Ethel B. Taylor, widow of Chief of Police J.E. Taylor, who was shot and killed in Thomasville, April 16, by Dr. J.W. Peacock, has instituted suit against the physician in Forsyth superior court for $40,000 in damages. In the complaint filed, Mrs. Taylor alleges that her husband was 29 years old and well qualified to earn a good salary, being a skilled engineer.
H.S. Shaver of Thomasville, who was wounded by a shot fired by Dr. Peacock at the time he killed Chief Taylor, has instituted suit in Davidson county court for $25,000. Dr. Peacock was declared by a jury in Davidson court Saturday night to have been insane at the time he shot the Thomasville officer.
From the front page of The Charlotte News, June 13, 1921
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