News reached here yesterday from Kenly that a negro, Lester McFarland, was shot and instantly killed Sunday night about 11 o’clock by C. S. Pulley, chief of police of Kenly. According to the report, Chief Pulley was called to McFarland’s house because he was raising a disturbance. White people living nearby heard some one screaming in the direction of McFarland’s home and notified the police. Pulley, with another policeman, went to the scene and found that McFarland, who was drunk, had been beating his wife. The officers attempted to arrest McFarland, but he resisted, getting possession of a butcher’s knife. At this stage Chief Pulley fired at McFarland and killed him.
The coroner, C. Q. Stephenson, was immediately sent for and an inquest was held. The coroner impaneled a jury which found upon investigation that the officer was discharging his duty and was forced to shoot McFarland in self-defense.
From the front page of the Smithfield Herald, Oct. 26, 1926
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