On last Saturday when Miles Love was brought into court charged with the slaying of his 3-year-old child, the grand jury had been discharged. It was impossible for his case to come up for trial at this term of court, however habeas corpus proceedings were heard before Judge Finley and the prisoner was remanded to jail without bond.
Four state witnesses were examined and the evidence was most damaging in every instance. It showed that even 10 years ago, soon after their first child was born, that the wife was chased from home by her husband, carrying with her through the darkness of the night her babe only two months old. Other evidence was that a later time he shot at her the ball passing near her head, and on that eventful Sunday the last words he said to his wife were so vile that they cannot be put into type. He stepped into the yard, gun in hand, the witness preceding him a few steps, where he cursed and fired into the house, the bullet taking effect in the right side of the child’s head. Trivett heard it fall and rushed in to find the little girl weltering in her own blood, the wife screaming: “Lord have mercy, don’t let him kill me too!” He carried the child out on the porch and later took her in and laid her on the bed, the father never showing even the slightest emotion. Death did not occur until Tuesday.
As the evidence now stands the tragedy is a fearful one, unless new witnesses develop who will ameliorate it to some extent.
From the front page of the Watauga Democrat, Boone, N.C., September 13, 1923
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