According to information received, which county officials and the Coroner’s jury would not comment on, nor confirm, Bettie Brinkley, one of the witnesses being held in the Pitt county jail, is said to have made a confession in which she told of the incidents leading up to the killing of Clayton Beaman, which she claims was done by Arthur Lamm, one of the men being held in connection with the mysterious murder.
The alleged confession which is said to have been wrought out of the woman in the jail at Greenville yesterday after she professed religion, was related in the following manner:
“There were three men and three women in Lamm’s store, the me were Beaman, Boswell and Lamm. Beaman made a remark about one of the women and Lamm took exception to the remark, an argument followed, which resulted in the free-for-all fight, in which Beaman proved the victor.
“Leaving the store Beaman got into his car when Lamm secured a pistol, rushed out the door and shot and killed the slot machine operator. Pushing the body over in the seat, he got under the wheel and drove away. Another car followed Lamm to Greenleaf Park where the dead man and his car was left and picked Lamm up and took him back to his store.”
The above story, if true or untrue, is a most plausible one, but there are doubts as to whether or not the murder happened in this manner. The local officials did not feel disposed to make any comment on it whatever, replying to all questions “I don’t know.”
Since writing above reported confession, we learn that this confession took place at a federation meeting and one of the members present brought the information to Wilson.
Relatives of Ernest Boswell, one of the men held in connection with the case, have retained attorneys for the purpose of securing a writ of habeas corpus, provided he is not released from custody before noon tomorrow. It is claimed that by Boswell’s relatives that he is innocent and is being retained merely on suspicion.
No new developments were given out officially, but it is known that some of the jurors accompanied deputy sheriffs from Pitt county searched the home of Johnnie Stuart, one of the women held, revealed a small pistol which is now in possession of the jury conducting the investigation.
The three persons removed from this county Saturday evening were taken to Greenville where they were lodged in the Pitt County jail and the police lockup. This change was made, according to local officers, for the purpose of keeping all of the eight prisoners held apart. If confined to the three jails in this city, they would be thrown together in such a manner that they could converse with each other and the officials do not want them to do that.
From the front page of The Wilson Times, Tuesday, February 17, 1925
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