Eugenia Frankin, 40, Released After Slaying Husband With Axe in Self-Defense, Dec. 18, 1925

Slayer of Husband Given Her Freedom. . . Coroner’s Jury Holds Mrs. Franklin Killed Mate in Self-Defense

Charlotte, Dec. 17—Mrs. Eugenia Franklin, 40, confessed slayer of her husband, George Franklin, aged 50, blacksmith and a war veteran today walked from her cell in Mecklenburg jail a free woman. A coroner’s jury held that the woman killed in defense of her life. She struck her husband on the head with an axe the night of December 12, in a bloody family brawl at the Franklin home. Franklin’s body was sent to Goldsboro, his former home, for interment.

From the front page of The Concord Daily Tribune, Dec. 18, 1925

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