New Bern, June 25—Luby Loftin, 15-year-old Dover negro, who yesterday shot and killed Zeb Smith, 25, who is alleged to have assaulted the youth’s sister, has been exonerated by a coroner’s jury. The youth claimed that when he resented the attack on his sister that Smith ejected him from the room and reached his hand toward his hip pocket, where upon, he told the coroner, he secured a shot gun in the room and fired at Smith. The lad hit him in the abdomen and death resulted instantly.
The coroner’s jury believed the self-defense story told by the youth and rendered a verdict of justified shooting.
From page 5 of the Goldsboro News, Saturday, June 26, 1926
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