After Shooting Wife, Ed Sneed Goes to Sunday School, July 1921

Kills Wife; Went to Sunday School

Wilmington, July 27—Brunswick county authorities today charged that after shooting his wife to death and throwing the body in a swamp last Sunday morning, Ed. Sneed, negro, of Northwest township, Brunswick county, proceeded to the Sunday school of which he is superintendent, and calmly directed the services. The body of his wife was discovered while Sunday school was in progress and Sneed was arrested by Sheriff Lewis.

From The Charlotte News, July 27, 1921