Tryon, N.C., July 9 (AP)—Q.C. Sonner, after lingering at the point of death in a local hospital since early yesterday, today was recovering from two bullet wounds above and below the heart. In the opinion of doctors, he will live to face charges that he shot and killed Miss Jean Braswell, 15, of Charlotte and Tryon, and then attempted to commit suicide shortly after midnight Thursday on a secluded spot on the Green River Cove Road, two miles from Saluda.
Feeling against young Sonner, who is the son of a wealthy and influential resident of Saluda, ran high here today. Sheriff McFarlane reported he might be forced to prepare against mob violence should word spread that young Sonner had recovered.
The authorities were making a strong effort today to learn from Dr. E.M. Sally, who attended the wounded boy yesterday, the statement which Dr. Sally said young Sonner made to him regarding the tragedy. The physician, however, refused to make public the statement, saying he was not ready to divulge what the boy told him.
In the event that Sonner recovered, charges of murder will be brought against him, Sheriff McFarlane said today.
From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Friday July 9, 1926
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