Hickory Record
While Earnest Sigmon is slowly recovering at the Richard Baker hospital from the effect of a bullet wound through his body, officers are trying to find a motive for the shooting. As yet they have found none. Sigmon claims to have been shot through the right lung by a man he called Tom Tuckins, which whom he quarreled at Fort Thomas, Ky., over three years ago.
Officers have investigated the theory that two other persons—a man and a woman—were involved, but have been unable to find any evidence that would confirm rumors. They cannot account for the closed car Sigmon says drove up with the man who did the shooting.
The closed car incident suggested two other persons to the officers, but no trace has been found of either the car or its occupants.
The belief was growing today that Sigmon shot himself with a pistol, threw the weapon away, wrote the note on an envelope accusing an unknown person, and lay down to die. He as found on the Lincolnton road three miles south of Hickory half frozen and carried immediately to the hospital for treatment and is expected to recover.
Sigmon could clear up the mystery were he so disposed officers think, but he has not indicated any such intention.
From The Lincoln County News, Lincolnton, Monday, January 7, 1923
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