ELEVEN YEAR OLD
NEGRO BOY KILLS
DAD AT MOORESBORO
Bill Martin, Negro, Attacks
Wife; Eleven Year Old
Son Shoots in Defense
of Mother
Shelby, July 30.—Otis Martin, 11-
year-old negro boy, couldn't stand to
see his mother abused and choked by
his father Sunday night at their
humble Mooresboro home, so he grab
bed a gun, leveled it at his father,
Bill Martin, pulled the trigger four
times; and his father rolled from the
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bed to the floor, where he died with
out speaking.
Today the little black boy peers
through the cell bars of the county
jail here while he awaits legal action
on the charge of murder because of
the love in his heart for his mother.
The negro man is dead and his
youngest born faces a murder charge
due to the fact that supper was some
minutes late in the Martin home.
According to the story told Cor
oner T. C. Eskridge and Deputy Mike
Austell Sunday night, Mai'tin came
home about 9 o'clock, or a little later,
and jumped on his daughter, Dovie,
because she had been slow about pre
paring supper. The young girl, it was
said, "sassed him back," and a fam
ily row was on. The mother, Hattie,
came to the defense of her daughter,
and her husband turned on her.
Threats and blows were passed, it is
said, and the father secured his pis
tol and placed it on a trunk in the
home. Then he threw his wife across
the bed, she says, and began choking
her. Over near the trunk stood the
frightened youth looking on. The
father kept choking her, so the moth
er says, and without a word the boy
reached over to the trunk, picked up
the gun and began firing.
His aim was good. The gun fired
only four times —one bullet carried
its death message through his
father's throat, another ploughed
through his chest, the third entered
his side, and the fourth shot cut
off a little finger, and the body of
the father, the life ebbing out of it,
tumbled to the floor.
All the evidence as related by the
frightened negro family was placed
before a coroner's jury assembled by
Coroner Eskridge, but as yet no
verdict has been rendered. All those
present say that the boy shot his
father, and the boy admits it him
self, but some cannot understand how
the mother escaped being hit by one
of the shots if her husband had her
down on the bed choking her when
the little boy began shooting. This
angle is said to have caused the jury
to delay its verdict while further in
vestigation is made. Presumably this
angle is to be investigated more be
cause some have the opinion that
Mairtin could have been killed by
some other member of the family
and the story "framed" because of
the hope that a 11-year-old boy
might not be considered as a respon
sible as an older person. However,
there is little to support this theory
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other than that according to the
story told! the shots were fired while
the negro and his wife were close
together and she was not ntruck.
Coroner Eskridge was informed
that Martin was not drinking and
was not known as a drinking man
in the community, hut was consid
ered "bossy" with his family, rul
ing somewhat with an iron hand.—
Cleveland Star.
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Bostie, R 4, July 29.—Mr. John
Yelton, an ex-Confederate soldier is
ill, we are sorry to note. Mrs. P. C.
Hunt, who has been confined to her
bed for some months is very ill. The
many friends of these two hope that
they will regain their normal health
soon.
Miss Beadie Melton is spending
'some time with her sister at Forest
City.
Those visiting Mr. and Mrs. Eli
Melton Sunday were the following;
STATEMENT
of the
Town of Forest City, N. C.,
June 1, 1927 to May 31, 1928
I " RECEIPTS
TAXES
1925 Taxes and prior $ 636.22
|1926 Tax 17,144.98
i 1927 Tax 52,076.58
i Special Taxes 2,356.65
I STREET ASSESSMENTS $ 11,074.93
! WATER DEPARTMENT 12,406.24
LIGHT DEPARTMENT 34,473.48
NOTES SOLD 100,000.00
SUPPLIES SOLD 1,072.79
BONDS SOLD . 25,000.00
INTEREST
Interest on certificates of Deposit $ 6,342.74
Interest on Savings Account 1,210.47
MISCELLANEOUS
Premium on Bonds Sold 1 $ 1,359.76
Court Fines 973.00
Court Costs 265.55
Bad Checks 785.90
Telephone 58.96
Building Permits .... 71.00
CASH ON HAND JUNE 1, 1927 ...
Certificates of Deposit $120,548.75
Checking Account 7.338.91
Savings Account 25,692.31
TOTAL 1. $420,889.22
DISBURSEMENTS
Salary, Mayor $ 120.00
Salary City Clerk and Treasurer 1,650.00
Office Rent 348.00
Extra Labor 244.40
Insurance „ 596.34
Advertising 391.35
Office Supplies and Expense 238.77
Legal Expense 451.00
Auditing 232.50
Vital Statistics 86.50
Telephone and Telegraph 103.34
License Plates 30.00
Water Tax 64.00
Miscellaneous 546.33
WATER DEPARTMENT
Salaries and Labor $ 4,510.41
Supplies 2,664.93
Power 1,175.10
Miscellaneous 349.48
LIGHT DEPARTMENT
Salaries and Labor $ 2,960.62
Supplies 4,994.24
Power .... 16,330.76
Miscellaneous 442.33
POLICE DEPARTMENT
Salaries $ 3,554.40
Auto and Motorcycle Expense 401.88
Supplies and Expense 483.40
Telephone and Telegraph 113.75
FIRE DEPARTMENT $ 75.68
STREET DEPARTMENT
Salaries and Wages $ 3,214.65
Supplies 1,313.79
Bridge 1,453.18
Freight 109.13
HEALTH DEPARTMENT
Salaries and Wages $ 1,700.70
Auto Expense 300.00
Supplies 128.88
jINTEREST
Interest on Bonds $ 44,083.46
Interest on Notes 6,269.99
NOTES PAID $150,000.00
BONDS RETIRED 16,000 00
CAPITAL ASSETS
Sewer Extension $ 1,434.60
City Hall 3,529.28
Real Estate 725.00
Truck 563.00
SINKING FUND
Farmers Bank & Trust Co $ 665.00
Building and Loan Deposits ! 265 00
MISCELLANEOUS
Fines Remitted County Treasurer $ 1,033:00
| Commission Tax Collector 1,163.10
! Bad Checks ; 807.64
•Widening Trade Street 250.00
Sewer Maintenance 30.35
Park Upkeep 108^31
Bond Commission 16.00
Refund Taxes 64^65
Refund Paving Assessments 139.24
| Prisoners Meals 45 05
CASH ON HAND MAY 31, 1928
Certificates of Deposit 1..5105,259.70
Checking Account 7,087.21
Savings Account 29^969!71
TOTAL $420,889.22
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Grady Grayson.
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with Mr. Meltons parents.
Mr. C. C. Rollins and daughter
visited Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Barnes
Sunday.
Mr. Guy Melton visited Messrs.
Berry and Ralph Rollins Sunday.
Miss Nellie Hollifield, of Bostic,
spent Sunday with her grand par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. J. I). Melton.
Mr. Claud Melton has been attend
ing the revival at Sunshine Metho
dist Church. . The services are con
ducted by Rev. K. N. Snipes and Rev. '
J. J. Melton.
The revival meeting will begin at
First Broad Baptist Church the first'
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