Reidsville, Aug. 22—Edward Carter, 25-year-old white man, was shot and instantly killed at about 10:30 o’clock last night by B.R. Franklin in his home on Thomas street, East Reidsville. Carter and another thief entered Franklin’s home. The second thief plunged through a window when the shooting began and made his escape. The robber, evidently realizing that he was trapped, fired several thots, two of the bullets inflicting flesh wounds in Franklin’s neck and leg and Mrs. Franklin being wounded in the shoulder from behind by the unknown thief after she had run into the yard to give the alarm.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Franklin will recover from their wounds, which are not considered serious. Both were highly unnerved today after their experience and are suffering from shock.
Franklin, with a shotgun, sent a load into the midnight thief below the heart and he dropped in his tracks. Before Franklin could get his gun, which he kept near his bed, Carter had fired several times. The experience was a terrifying one of the young man and his wife, both of whom were in bed and who were principals in a midnight duel in the darkness with deadly missiles speeding in every direction.
From the front page of The Concord Times, Monday, August 24, 1925
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