Spartanburg, S.C., Aug. 13—Tied to his bed while asleep, Ed Stone, 42-year-old negro, was almost beheaded early Thursday morning at his home on Piephoff street, and his wife, Josie, 23, is held in the county jail on a charge of murder.
Stone, in his death struggles, tore himself free from the cords which bound him to the bed, staggered out of the room in which he had been sleeping, and tottered to the veranda. Horrified negroes in the vicinity of the Stone home saw the dying man fall from the veranda and roll down the hill upon the summit of which the house sits. Blood was gushing from Stone’s severed jugular vein, and he expired just as Jim Dixon, a neighbor, reached his side to aid him.
Stone’s wife, according to neighbors, left the house about the time the blood-stained man appeared on the veranda. She returned, however, just before officers arrived and surrendered. Negroes who had assembled at the Stone house said the woman admitted that she cut her husband with an axe as he lay asleep on the bed. Stone and his wife quarreled frequently, according to the Trapps. Their domestic wrangles, however, usually ended without physical encounters, the Trapps said. Recently, Josie Stone told neighbors that she was in great pain from a beating administered by her husband.
Ed Stone had been employed in Asheville, coming to his home here every Saturday night and returning to his place of employment on Sunday. Some days ago he told neighbors that he had given up his position in Asheville and had decided to seek employment here.
From the front page of The Concord Daily Tribune, Friday, August 14, 1925
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