Holderfield Before Coroner's Jury for Wife Murder, July 29, 1922

Man Held for Wife Murder

By the Associated Press

Raleigh, N.C., July 29—Special delivery clerk Holderfield is in jail here today awaiting the verdict of a coroner’s jury this afternoon on the charge of wife murder.

Hoderfield and his wife were overheard last night quarreling in their home by her father, Chas. Johnson, who lives next door. This was followed somewhat later by the sound of a pistol shot, and Holderfield rushed out for a physician saying his wife had shot herself.

When the police and neighbors went in they found Mrs. Holderfield lying on her back on the floor, unconscious, with a bullet wound in her breast, and a pistol lying on the floor about 5 feet away.

From the front page of the Goldsboro Daily Argus, Saturday, July 29, 1922. Newspaper printed last name as Holderfield and Holerfield.