Rockingham, Sept. 28—The special grand jury assembled today to pass on the bill charging W.B. Cole with the murder of W.W. Ormond on August 15 were only one hour in brining in a true bill of indictment, charging that “W.B. Cole did kill, slay, and murder W.W. Ormond on or about August 15, 1925.”
After the bill of indictment was turned into the court, Cole, who has been in jail since the killing, was brought in and entered a plea of “not guilty.”
Judge Finley granted the motion of solicitor F. Don Phillips to call a special venire from some other county. The court that a venire of 200 be called to appear Wednesday morning, at which time real action will begin in what promises to be one of the hardest-fought cases in our State’s history. The defendant is wealthy and stands high in his section. Ormond had friends all over the State, and they are putting up a real fight to the end that his slayer may be brought to justice.
The insanity plea may be the real hope of Cole. There is hardly any other straw to catch.
From the front page of The Enterprise, Williamston, Martin County, N.C., Tuesday, Sept. 29, 1925
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