Wilson, May 16—One arrest has been made in the murder of David F. Peele, Aycock’s Crossing merchant, who was shot and killed in cold blood late last night while working in his store near Kenly. Moses Green, negro, was arrested early this morning by the police at Kenly, and turned over to Sheriff O.A. Glover. He answered the description given last night by J.D. Aycock, who saw the shooting, and after a grueling examination by the county authorities admitted he was at the store at the time of the murder, but denied being the one who fired the shot that killed Mr. Peele.
Green is now in the Wilson county jail, where he is suffering from wounds about the head, face and shoulders, inflicted by the officers making the arrest this morning, the negro having opened fire on them, they returned the fire and dropped him in his tracks. Several hundred pellets from a shot gun pierced the skin of his face, head and shoulders.
Admitted Being at Store
The negro confessed to the officers that he was at the store last night at the time of the shooting, but claimed he stood in the door of the store while a light-colored negro went in to make a purchase, and shot and killed the merchant.
Robbery is thought to have been the motive of the crime, as it was committed without any provocation. Mr. Peele was about to wrap up a shirt the negro had purchased and walked around the end of a counter, meeting the black face to face. The negro pulled gun and fired point blank into Mr. Peele’s chest. Death resulted instantly. Both negroes fled without making any effort to rifle the cash register.
From the front page of The Smithfield Herald, Tuesday, May 18, 1926
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