Murder-Suicide
Man Guns Down Neighbor
As She Returns From Work
COOLEEMEE —An elderly re
Cooleemee man shot and killed
a woman neighbor when she c*
returned from work at Fiber St
Industries late last night, then *
turned the weapon and killed
himself.
Dr. B. L. Richards, Davie
County corn oner, ruled that
Ernest (Shag) Sain, about 70,
murdered Mrs. Peggy Messick,
37, and then committed suicide.
There was no apparent
motive in the killings of the
Davie Street neighbors.
Dr. Richards said that Mrs.
Messick apparently had just
arrived at her residence about
11:90 p.m. Thursday when she
was slain.
Mrs. Messick, whom Dr.
Richards said was divorced
from ho* husband, apparently
started to go into ho- house,
where her sons, aged 17 and six,
were alseep.
Dr. Richards quoted the older
son as saying he beard two
shots and his mother scream.
Then there were two more shots
and another scream.
Mrs. Messick's body was
found in her front yard near the
porch. Sain's body was found
about SO feet away in the front
vard and near the front porch of
his residence.
Mrs. Messick died instantly, a
bullet hitting her in the left
upper part of the chest just
above tne heart.
Sain was rushed to Davie
County Hospital at Mocksville
and was being transferred to
Forsyth Memorial Hospital in
Winston-Salem when he died en
Rescue Squad
To Present
Gospel Sing
The Davie County Rescue
Squad will present a special
gospel singing with the Har
vesters Quartet and the
Philomels Quartet on Friday,
June 5.
The show will begin at 7:30 in
the Mocksville Elementary
School auditorium on North
Main Street in Mocksville and
will last until the quartets are
unable to sing any longer.
Advance tickets are $1.50 for
adults and SI.OO for children. To
obtain advance tickets, you
may write to post office box 404,
Mocksville, North Carolina,
27028. Tickets will also be on
sale at the door for $2.00 for
adults and SI.OO for children.
All proceeds will be used to
purchase equipment for the
squad unit.
21 Area Nurses
Attend Convention
There were 21 nurses from
area 10 of the North Carolina
Licensed Practical Nurses As
sociation who attended the state
convention on May 8 and 9, at
Grove Park Inn, Asheville.
Mrs. Gwendolyn Cleary oi
Mocksville, president of area 10,
was electea secretary of the
area president's of the state.
She also carried the highest
number of votes to represent the
state as a delegate to the Nation
al Convention in Boston, Mass.
Mrs. Nancy Foster of Mocks
ville, secretary of area 10, was
elected by highest vote to serve
on the State Nominating Com
mittee and alternate delegate to
the national convention.
Mrs. Hattie Thompson of Win
ston-Salem was elected to the
State Board of Directors.
route.
Or. Richards said that a .22-
caliber revolver was found near
Sain's feet in the front yard. He
described the gun as the death
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weapon.
Dr. Richards said that there
were no eyewitnesses to the
slayings and that he has ruled
murder-suicide in the two
deaths.
The coroner said that Mrs.
Sain had been a babysitter in
Mrs Messick's home for about
six years.
Coolecme* Journal, Wednesday, May 20,1970
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