Charlotte, Oct. 13—A coroner’s jury impaneled for a continued session from last Saturday by Acting Coroner H.C. Irwin, investigating the death of E.Y. Rogers found Monday that Rogers came to his death as the result of a blow on the head by a blunt instrument wielded by John B. Vickers, white man, who was locked up at the police station Saturday by Rural Police Chief Vic Fesperman, after extensive investigation.
There was practically no new evidence adduced at the coroner’s hearing. The most significant evidence at the coroner’s hearing was the testimony of five witnesses that they positively identified Vickers as the man they last saw with Rogers on Wednesday and Thursday before Rogers’ body was found last Friday morning.
Monday Vickers retained Conley E. Robinson of the Charlotte bar as his attorney. He has not talked of the case, except to assure his wife he can prove an alibi.
From the front page of The Concord Daily Tribune, Wednesday, Oct.14, 1925
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