Asheville, March 29 (AP)—Mrs. John Melton, who lives near Black Mountain, was shot repeatedly from ambush when she opened her front door at 1 o’clock this morning in answer to a call from a messenger announcing that her son, Harry, had been hurt in an automobile accident.
The person or persons who did the shooting were concealed in a group of pines in the yard near the door, and as the door swung open fourt(?) shots from an automatic shotgun and one from a 32 calibre pistol were unloaded in her direction, the pistol shot entering her abdomen, and others taking effect in her thighs, it is reported.
Mrs. Melton is seriously wounded but alive at her home. Attending physicians are doubtful as to the outcome of her injuries, it is said. It is thought the perpetrators of the crime intended to shoot Mrs. Melton’s husband and sun, but were unable to recognize the figure who appeared at the door and fired into her by mistake, investigators said.
Bloodhounds are being used in an effort to trail the offenders. The shooting probably resulted from activities of Harry Melton in combatting moonshine operations, Sheriff E.M. Mitchell of Buncombe County said.
From the front page of The Concord Daily Tribune, Monday, March 29, 1926
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