Hickory, Jan. 1—Ernest Sigmon, a young white man, was found alongside of the highway late this afternoon with a bullet hole through the right side of his body and nearly frozen to death, but at a late hour tonight Sheriff Bost and Chief Lentz had not been able to learn who did the shooting.
Sigmon, who is the son of Jeff Sigmon, was found about three miles south of Hickory. Before he lapsed into unconsciousness Sigmon scrawled on the back of an envelope instructions to whoever might find him. “Take me home,” the scrawl read. “I live at Jeff Sigmon’s. Somebody shot me. You will find my gun in the car.”
An effort had been made to write more, but without success.
In the automobile was an unloaded .5 calibre rifle with no cartridges around. The officers do not believe Sigmon shot himself. It was reported that he was pumping air into a tire when somebody shot him in the back.
Sheriff Bost said Sigmon was a man of good habits, so far as he knew, and was unable to account for the tragedy. At the hospital tonight it was said the wounded man was getting along all right, but officers hardly expected him to live with bullet hole through his body and at least half hour’s exposure to the cold.
From the front page of The Lincoln County News, Lincolnton, N.C., Jan. 3, 1924
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