King, Feb. 19—J.W. Hall, who resides one mile south of town, was given a hearing here Tuesday before Justice of the Peace James R. Caudle and Thomas E. Smith on a charge of willfully and feloniously beating with a stick Mrs. Pearl Wilson and her small son, from which it was claimed she died three days after reaching her home.
The evidence was that Hall went to the home of Wilson, who resides in Virginia and requested that Wilson and his wife, Mrs. Pearl Wilson, who was a niece of Mr. Hall, returned with him to his home. Sam Wilson, husband of the dead woman, stated that he told Mr. Hall that he could not go but consented for his wife to go, Hall agreeing to bring her back within a few days.
It went along for some time and she did not return it was then that Wilson stated that he went to the home of Hall after his wife and was denied the privilege of seeing her. Later she was brought within a short distance of her home and left by the road side.
A Mr. Slate, who was a witness at the hearing, stated that she was left on the road side near his home and that she came to his house and requested that he carry her home, saying that she did not believe she could get home with a sack of clothing that she was carrying, and that he assisted her in getting home.
Slate, who was one of the jurors at the coroner’s inquest held over the remains in Virginia, also stated that the finding of the coroner’s jury was that she died from dropsy brought on by lack of medical attention and rough treatment.
Probable cause was found and the defendant was bound over to the next term of Stokes Superior court, which convenes in March, in a bond of $700 which he has gave. Appearing for Hall was Attorney T.W. Kallam of Winston-Salem while the state was not represented by counsel.
From the front page of The Danbury Reporter, March 4, 1925
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