Coroner's Jury Finds Theodore Sharpless Innocent in Killing of His Father in Defense of His Mother, Oct. 21, 1926

Wilmington, Oct. 19—The third slayer in his family Theodore Sharpless, negro, was late this afternoon set free after he had killed his father, Paul Sharpless, at the home of is mother at 7 a.m. today. A coroner’s jury found that the man came to his death at the hands of his son, who was justified in the shooting in defense of himself and his mother.

From page 2 of the Robesonian, Lumberton, N.C., Oct. 21, 1926

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