David Smith, colored of Saulston section, who on Thursday shot Norman Rose, his son-in-law, with a double-barreled shotgun and then “tapped” him on the head with the stock of the gun after he had emptied both barrels into the man’s anatomy and who was in turn shot by a .38 calibre revolver by the said Rose will probably be discharged from the Goldsboro hospital where he is receiving treatment in the sources of the next few days unless complications set in and will at once be placed in jail to await trial on a charge of murder.
Smith, aged about 55 years and father of the dead man’s wife, told officers who investigated the crime that he had merely “tapped” Rose on the head with his gun in order to prevent the latter from shooting him again. It was this gentle “tap” which fractured the man’s skull and caused his death. It was said by physicians who amputated one of Rose’s lower limbs after he had been brought to this city and carried to Spicer sanitorium for treatment.
From the front page of The Goldsboro News, Saturday morning, June 19, 1926
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