Kinston, Jan. 18—Miss Edna Croom was shot and painfully wounded by an unidentified assailant at her Sandy Bottom home last night. The girl, daughter of Seth Croom, a leading planter of the community, opened the door in response to calls from the yard. A moment later there was a flash from a shot gun and she fell. Part of a load of small shot struck her in her leg. Officers and bloodhounds from here failed to find a clue to the assailants’ identity. These believed Miss Croom was shot by mistake and that her father was the intended victim. Croom has been active in efforts to break up moonshine distilling in the neighborhood.
From the front page of the Concord Tribune, Monday, January 19, 1925
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