Charlotte, N.C., Sept. 16—A coroner’s jury investigating the death of W.W. Johnson, Mount Holly barber who was found shot to death in a room at the home of R.L. Reed on Caldwell street here Saturday, Sept. 6, failed to reach a verdict after a lengthy session today, and the hearing was continued until September 20.
D.C. Brown, finger print expert of Winston-Salem, testified that blood finger prints found on the bathroom door at the Reed home were not of R.L. Reed, who with Lee R. Fulp, Statesville, is in jail without bond in connection with the case.
Replying to a direct question from coroner Frank Hovie, Brown said “from information and conversation I have had concerning this, I believe it was Mr. Fulp’s hand but I’m not in position to swear to it.”
The finger print expert explained that he arrived on the scene too late to get satisfactory results from his finger print tests.
Upon advice of solicitor John G. Carpenter of Gastonia, Mrs. R.L. Reed and Mrs. N.M. Jones, a neighbor of the Reeds, were ordered held as material witnesses in the case.
From page 3 of The Goldsboro News, Wednesday morning, September 17, 1924
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