News of the fatal shooting of Stephen Holt by Officer Wyatt of the Raleigh police department, who mistook him for a “rum runner” while he was on his way from Raleigh to his home in Smithfield, aroused much feeling here last night, especially among the local attorneys who have been associated with him in the practice of law here and at Smithfield.
Added interest was aroused when it was learned that the other occupants of the car were from Princeton, just over the Wayne county line. They were clients of Mr. Holt, it was understood here, and had been in Raleigh on matters up in federal court.
Several calls were received from local attorneys by the News, all of them anxious to secure information about the shooting of “Steve,” as they affectionately called the Smithfield attorney.
The shooting was also the subject of much comment among Goldsboro officers, especially the contention of Captain Wyatt that the bullet glanced on the hard-surfaced road into the car and struck Mr. Holt. Later information revealed the bullet had penetrated his head and came out under his tongue.
When asked if it were possible, in his opinion, for a bullet to penetrate a man’s head after glancing from the pavement, Officer Grover Lancaster answered in a positive negative. “I believe it is impossible,” he asserted. In this opinion he was backed by Officer Jimmie Burke, while officer Bass said it was “very improbable.”
From the front page of the Goldsboro News, Tuesday morning, June 2, 1925
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