With a shot gun lying across her body, Minnie Barfield, 13-year-old white girl who resided near White Oak in Bladen county, was found in a dying condition about 200 yards from her home Friday afternoon March 5.
According to information received from that section, she had been attending the White Oak school that day and on returning home she left the house telling her mother that she would return shortly. Soon afterwards, according to the mother, she heard her daughter re-enter the house and leave again. When she did not return soon as she stated to her mother, a search was made by the family which revealed the fact that she had evidently committed suicide.
An examination revealed that she was shot just below the short ribs. The girl lived about two hours after she was discovered by the searching party, but according to those who were at her side until death, she did not make any statements pertaining to the way in which she came to her death. It has been reported that she made the statement that she would either attend a show in White Oak that night or die.
From the front page of The Sampson Independent, Clinton, N.C., March 18, 1926
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