Snowhill, Sept. 5—Mrs. Sarah Whitley, Thomas Hayes, a white man, and Wright Rouse, a one-armed negro, are in Greene County jail where, according to Sheriff J.E. Herring, Mrs. Whitley confessed that her husband, who was killed at a tobacco barn on his farm on the night of August 6, was slain by Rouse, at the insistence of herself and Hayes, with whom she was infatuated.
The coroner’s jury has held the three without bail and to Sheriff Herring, according to that official Mrs. Whitley broke down, confessing that the killing was the result of a conspiracy and that Rouse, a freak doctor and fortune teller, committed the crime for the promise of $500, which was never paid.
From the front page of The Charlotte News, Monday, Sept. 5, 1921
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