Carl Talley, convicted January 20 of the murder of Policeman W.T. McCuiston on May 4, 1921, and sentenced by Judge A.M. Stack to serve 15 years in the state prison, left Saturday for Raleigh in custody of a Greensboro deputy.
Today a letter signed by him was printed in the Daily News denying that he had anything to do with the killing, although he admits the law was being violated in that he had whiskey in the car.
The trip of Talley from Greensboro to Raleigh ends, it is believed, the story of the tragedy late in the afternoon of May 4, 1921, when Tom McCuiston, one of the most popular policemen on the Greensboro force, was shot to death when he stepped on the running board of an automobile on East Washington street, the policeman having received information that there was whiskey in the car, which was occupied by Talley, Louis Edwards and Tommy Robertson.
The trio fled from the city, pursued by many cars. Officer Oakes, who was with McCuiston when the officer was killed, together with Clyde Cobb, overtaking the fleeing car near Reidsville, where Tommy Robertson was killed. Oakes was tried in Alamance county for killing Robertson and acquitted.
The car left the city and went by the Battle Ground. There Talley and Edwards left the machine and took to the woods. Edwards was found and arrested by Sheriff D.B. Stafford and Deputy Floyd Brown after several shots had been exchanged. Talley managed to escape. Edwards was convicted in October, 1921, of murder and sentenced to 10 years in the state prison where he is now confined.
Talley eluded officers until Christmas eve when he was arrested near Scottsburg, Va., after being shot in the neck during a row over whiskey. He was brought back to Greensboro and placed in jail where he stayed until he was taken to Raleigh.
Talley has maintained ever since he has been in jail here that he did not kill McCuiston. He charged Edwards with the shooting.
From the front page of The Reidsville Review, Monday, April 9, 1923
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