Leonard Triplett, about 20 years of age, was killed near Blowing Rock Saturday night by Deputy Sheriff H.W. Wooten, the result of an affray. Wooten and Chief of Police J.V. Bauguss were out looking for a liquor car, and came across Triplett and two companions. They searched the car but failed to find anything.
They drove down the road to search a second car and while there Triplett drove up. Here some words occurred. There are two stories to it.
Triplett’s reputation is of the best; never before, it is said, has he run afoul the law.
The sheriff was carried to jail at Boone. Immediately after the killing feeling ran high, and it was due to the fact that he made his way as quickly as possible to Boone where he surrendered and was placed in jail.
From the front page of The Albemarle Press, “A Stanly County Weekly of Character—Published Every Thursday” June 25, 1925
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