Gastonia, Sept. 5—Herman Falls of Kings Mountain died in a hospital today as the result of a robbery of S.L. Kiser’s general store in the Sunnyside section of Cherryville township, 10 miles from here, last night, when the man, in removing goods from the store, walked into a shot gun trap and received a load of shot in his side.
Three men with a Ford touring car, one of them being Falls, staged the robbery at the Kiser store this morning about 3 o’clock. Falls was removing shoes from the shelves. After he had taken 15 pairs he returned for another armful via an open window. As he reached for the other shoes on the store shelves, he walked into a string tied across the counter. The string was jerked and the trigger of the shot gun pulled, discharging the load.
At the sound of the gun the Ford car left, Falls, losing blood rapidly, crawled from the store some distance up the road. Signs along the highway this morning showed where he had bled much and was apparently having a hard time to get away. The Ford car returned and picked him up. The car was then found along the side of the road this morning.
The entire load entered Falls’ left side, just above the hip. Will McDonald, a member of the party, escaped from the officers. A third man, giving his name as Ramond Benfield, is in the Gaston county jail. His home is in Bessemer City. Sheriff Rhyne arrested him on his trip to Kings Mountain.
From the front page of The Concord Daily Tribune, September 6, 1923
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