David Smith, middle-aged colored resident of the Saulston section of Wayne county, is now in the local jail awaiting trial at the August term of Superior Court on a charge of having caused the death of Norman Rose, his son-in-law, several days ago by firing two loads of shot into his body following an altercation which the two had and in which the slayer’s daughter, the dead man’s wife, was the “bone of contention.”
Smith, who was also wounded in the affray, being shot in the abdomen by his victim who unlimbered a .38 calibre revolver at some stage of the battle, has been discharged from the Goldsboro hospital, where he has been receiving treatment. His condition is said to be rapidly improving.
The coroner’s jury, which investigating the shooting following the death of Rose at Spicer sanitorium where he was carried for an operation, held that Smith was responsible for his demise.
From the front page of the Goldsboro News, Saturday, June 26, 1926
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