Sunday, October 31, 2021

Posse Hunting Wiley Perry, Oct. 31, 1921

Posse Hunting Aiken’s Slayer

Creedmore, Oct. 31—Sheriff Hunt and a posse today continue the search for Wiley Perry, negro, who shot and instantly killed Roy Aiken, a bookkeeper for the American Tobacco Company at Wendell here yesterday morning.

Feeling against the negro is said to be running high.

Aiken was killed when he went to the assistance of chief of police Curl, who was attempting to arrest Perry. The officer and negro had exchanged several shots when Aiken and Taylor Williams prevented him from escaping in his automobile. Williams received a slight flesh wound.

From the front page of The Daily Times, Wilson, N.C., Oct. 31, 1921

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