Raleigh, Aug. 9—Detective Jesse Wyatt, whose son Jesse junior was shot last night near the Seaboard shops, is convinced that the boy was not fired upon by one of the railroad guards.
The report at police headquarters that the youngster had been halted by the railroad’s employee and with hardly an exchange of words had shot young Wyatt in the back, aroused great indignation; but there is less than no evidence that the shooting was done by one of the guards. The boys who were with Wyatt are not able to give a very intelligent idea of the shooting, but they say the Wyatt boy and they were halted with the announcement that at the count of three the shot would be fired. The load of small shot entered the boy’s back and from head to foot he was stung with the hot led. The doctors do not think his injuries are serious unless something should develop from them.
Naturally the Seaboard officials are delighted that no evidence supports the suspicion that one of their men attacked the boy.
From the front page of The Durham Morning Herald, Aug. 10, 1922
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