David Smith, colored, aged about 60 years, and who a few weeks ago made a murderous attack upon Norman Rose, aged about 45 years, his son-in-law in the Saulston section and who has been in the Wayne County jail since that time, is facing the serious charge of having killed his victim with no real thought of the gravity of his situation.
The old man told a News representative yesterday that he “didn’t see how” they were going to try him on a murder charge with Rose had taken a shot at him with his pistol the ball entering his (Smith’s) body.
However, when the coroner investigated the affair, he learned that Smith had gone home and secured his shotgun and walked more than a . . . (line of type obscured). Both barrels of his gun into the latter’s body, struck him over the head and fractured his skull.
Thus far, Smith has not secured legal counsel and seems to be taking the matter more or less philosophically.
From the front page of the Goldsboro News, Thursday morning, July 15, 1926
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