Walter Dudley, white tenant farmer of Whiteville, is in critical condition at the James Walker Memorial hospital as the result of gunshot wounds received during a quarrel with E.C. Huggins over a whiskey still Wednesday.
The load entered Dudley’s neck, grazing the spinal column and producing paralysis.
Huggins escaped into South Carolina, and has not been apprehended, but his son, who is alleged to have aided in his escape, is being held in jail at Whiteville.
Physicians entertain little hope for the recovery of Dudley.
According to a statement made by Dudley to Jackson Greer, for whom both he and Huggins worked, Dudley several days ago found a whiskey still near the farm, and carried it to his home, where he buried it.
Huggins, in the meantime, he said, had gone to South Carolina, and upon his return he came to Dudley and accused him of stealing the still.
An argument followed, and Dudley demanded that Huggins return his gun, which Huggins had borrowed some time previously. This Huggins refused to do and fired on Dudley. The wounded man was brought to Wilmington, while Huggins, accompanied by his son, escaped into South Carolina.
The son, returning with the mule and buggy in which he and his father left the state, was met at the Columbus county line by Sheriff Ammons, and placed under arrest.
From the Wilmington Morning Star, Sept. 15, 1922
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Victim of Shooting Succumbs at Hospital
Walter Dudley, Whiteville farmer, shot two days ago by E.C. Huggins following a quarrel over a whiskey still, died at the James Walker memorial hospital last night. The body will be sent to Whiteville early this morning.
Dudley reached the hospital early Thursday morning suffering from a gunshot wound in the neck that had produced paralysis.
Huggins, at latest reports, had not been apprehended.
From The Wilmington Star, Saturday morning, Sept. 16, 1922
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