Morganton, N.C., Feb. 6 (AP)—Four young men were gathered in the Burke County court house at 8:30 o’clock last night as prisoners at the bar, charged with the murder of Frank Butler of Lower Folk (Fork?) township 12 miles south of Morganton. They were Charles Kendrix, Wells Green, Roy Hill and Otis Jolly, all of Gaffney, S.C.
The preliminary hearing was continued until Tuesday afternoon, February 16th, after they informed Solicitor R.L. Huffman, who drove up from Newton, where he is prosecuting the Bowman case, for the hearing, that they had not completed their arrangements for counsel. Mrs. Butler, wife of the slain man, was in the court room and she told her sordid story to a newspaper men (man?). She said at 2 o’clock last Saturday morning she was awakened by sounds in the house. She punched her husband and he got up. There were two men in the room, one of which she identified as Wells Green. They asked Butler if he had 25 gallons of liquor. He said he thought he could find them 10 gallons. Butler got up and dressed. He went with the boys, according to Mrs. Butler, and was gone half an hour. She heard a car drive near the house and then heard a shot. The woman said her husband stumbled into the room shortly after the shot and fell to the floor saying “the devils shot me.”
Mrs. Butler’s father is Aaron Cook, former deputy sheriff of Burke County. He told Solicitor Hoffman that he was guarding her from this possible trouble.
From the front page of The Concord Daily Tribune, Feb. 6, 1926.
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