Sheriff Milland of Alleghany brought a prisoner named Williams to the Wilkes jail last Saturday night form Sparta for safe keeping charged with having poisoned another man with bi-chloride. It was feared death would be the result.
As best the report is remembered, the circumstances surrounding the poisoning were that the man named Williams and the man poisoned had been rivals for the same young lady, and the now-prisoner in the Wilkes jail had lost out. One of the men—either the prisoner or the man who married—was in the road with an automobile which he was repairing when the other came along and offered or rendered assistance. The Wilkes jail prisoner, now, then and there asked the other fellow to take a drink of liquor.
The result was that the married man, whose name we did not learn, took a swallow and was poisoned not expected to live. The doctors attributed it to bi-chloride poison.
At last account the fellow was in critical condition but had not died.
From the front page of The North Wilkesboro Hustler, Nov. 7, 1923
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