Lexington, N.C., July 26—Bertha Hampton, negress, is in jail here for slaying her husband, James Hampton, at Newsom, 25 miles south of here, Friday night. She claims that she acted in self-defense with a pistol after Hampton had attempted to use her as a subject for a “razor murder.”
An unopened razor is said to have been found in Hampton’s pocket when a coroner’s inquest was held Saturday.
The woman said Hampton attempted to cut her on a bed with the razor but that she escaped him, secured a pistol from another room and then fled the house, Hampton still pursuing and threatening death.
She was unable to take refuse in a nearby house and returned to her porch and when Hampton started to pull himself up on the porch she shot him. The bullet penetrated the right arm and entered the body under the armpit.
Trouble between the couple is alleged to have started over discussion of another negro known as “Big Jim,” a former boarder with the Hamptons.
From the front page of The Concord Daily Tribune, July 27, 1926
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