Floral College (Maxton R. 2), June 29—A near-fatal shooting occurred on the J.B. McCallum farm here on Thursday night of last week, the participants in the affair being colored. Charlie Bostic, upon coming home from work on Mr. McCallum’s McQueen farm several miles west of here, found his wife gone and no supper cooked, made inquiry and was told she had gone to a neighbor’s to borrow some kerosene oil. After waiting a reasonable time for her to return, he went in search. Not finding her at the neighbor’s, he went to a vacant house on the farm and found her in company with another man. Getting a switch, he whipped her about half the distance from there to the house in which they lived with his mother-in-law and other members of the family, who upon hearing the row went to her assistance with various and sundry weapons, and when they began to crowd him he shot, the ball hitting her in the lower part of her stomach and lodging in her intestines.
Dr. E.G. McMillan of Maxon was called and upon investigation rushed her to a Hamlet hospital, where an operation was performed and at latest accounts she was getting along as well as could be expected. Bostic has not been apprehended at this writing.
From the front page of the Robesonian, Lumberton, N.C., July 1, 1926
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