Gastonia, Aug. 8—A. Weslie Sprinkle, 52-year-old watchmaker of this city, was found dead here early today in the Vansleen Jewelry establishment. There was a bullet hole through his head. Sprinkle returned here yesterday from Washington, District Columbia, where he had gone for nervous disorders.
From the front page of The Daily Advance, Elizabeth City, N.C., Saturday evening, August 8, 1925
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Version on front page of The Concord Daily Tribune, Aug. 8, 1925, spelled name of jewelry establishment “Van Sleen” and contained the following sentence: “The only known relative surviving is a sister, Mrs. E.G. McDonald of Drake, W. Va.”
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