Edward L. Early
Claims Killing Was
Result Of Accident
(Continued rrom page one)
“reasonable" figure. Justice John
son, while denying bond at the
time, announced he would con
• fer with the defense attorneys.
Peel and Peel, today and discuss
the possibility of allowing bond
in the case. ,
The State offered comparatively
little evidence at the preliminary
hearing, and the defense claimed
that it did not bring out premedi
tation. and went on to explain
that the defendant did not flee
from the scene of the crime.
Officer Arthur Perry, making
the arrest with Officer Verble
Jones, told about hi.-, visit to the
doctor's office-home, and explain
ed the position the victim was
lying in when found, adding that
Early was resting on the bed, a
few feet away, with his head
resting in his hand. The woman,
j about 25 years old, was lying with
! her feet a step from the foot of
the bed on the floor. The pistol
was found on a night table at the
head of the bed. the officer said,
explaining what action was taken
to get a doctor there and to get
the victim to a hospital.
Officer Jones said that when
he reached the scene of the fatal
attack, he saw the woman lying
on the floor and that Early jump
ed up and said, "It looks like I'm
going to Raleigh," The officer
declared that Early repeated the
statement two or three times. He
I further quoted the doctor as say
ing that he (Early) was in a tussle
i with the girl and did not know
who had a hand on the trigger
when the gun fired. The officer
said the girl was unconscious and
made no statement. Dr. Early,
according to the officer, called i
Dr. J. T. Llewellyn but could not
get him, and that E. S. Peel, Jr.,
called another doctor, that Dr. C.
I. Harris made a hurried exami
nation and advised the removal of
the woman to a hospital.
Taking the stand, Sheriff M. W.
Holloman said Early made a state
ment to him in jail Sunday night,
a short time after the shooting.
Early, according to the sheriff, j
said he was lying on the bed i
when Odessa came in and started
an argument about some shorten
ing. Early also said that he had '
his hand on the pistol under a
pillow, that the girl grabbed the!
pillow and when she saw the pis- j
tol. told him to shoot her. "Kill j
me, kill me, go on and Rill me," I
isuiiy, in his statement, uuotod ,
the girl as saying. Early said
she had her hand on the barrel
when the weapon fired.
A second statement was made
by the defendant yesterday, and
Sheriff Holloman read it as fol
lows: •
"I went in there and lay down
on the bed, long ways the bed,
with my head on one pillow and
the gun in my hand under the
other pillow, and Dessia canto in
there, arguing with me about
some shortening So 1 said, shucks,
we been talking about that all
day. I said I don't want to talk
about it any more, just let it drop j
And she proceeded to beat on me j
with her fist; she didn't have any- :
thing else. 1 was turning around ;
and trying to avoid her, and she
snatched the pillow from of,!' my
hand. I had the gun in my hand,
and she grabbed the gun and said,
'kill me, please kill me; eome on
and kill me,’ like a person would
do. I don’t suppose it was exact
ly a dare. It's just, I guess, testing
out, or something. I don't know j
what it was. Next thing I knew,
the thing went off, and her hand |
i around the gun, she had the gun
barrel. She was holding the gun
by the barrel. 1 don’t know wheth
er she had her hand on the other
part or not. but she was pulling
on the barrel, tmd the gun fired,
and she fell away. She didn’t say
a thing. Anything at all. 1 jump
ed up and hollered, Dessia. I put
the gun over there on the table
arid railed Dr. Llewellyn. He I
wasn't there, then I though she
was dead, and I called Mr. Peel.
He told me to call the officers and
I asked him to call the officers.
And then I tried to get Dr. Llew
ellyn again. Then Mr. Peel, Jr... ]
who was sent by his father, camel
and called Or. Harris. Anri Dr.1
Harris came, then the officers, and j
then the ambulance came, and |
then Dr Llewellyn got there as
she was being put in the ambu- j
lance. 1 helped put her on the
stretcher. 1 was in the middle. I
There were three of us helping,
and I helped put her on. 1 told
him not to bend her neck, to put
his arm under her.
"Early that day we had argu
ments. We had arguments about
the shortening. What she did, it i
wfis like this, I passed by and she
would dig her fingernails in un
arm, one time about 11 o'clock,
and another time about 3:00 o’
olook. Little inter, she complain
ed about her jaw aching that aft
ernoon. She had had her tooth
pulled, and she fixed a hypo
dermic with some morphine that
Dr. Horton, the colored dentist
that comes over here once a week,
I gave her. She asked me to give
| it to her, and 1 gave it to her
| That was about 4:00 o'clock. She
was killed (fatally shot) about
j 8:00 o'clock.
"She lay down over on the
[ couch in another room, and 1 lay
down in my room, except during
j the time that 1 waited on those
! patients anti she helped me wail
on the patients.
j “1 wasn't angry with her. I
j didn’t intend to. kill her. She had
I slight temper tantrums and got
! over them, and gets mad at times
I and cools down, and 1 was used to
that. She was mad with me. She
I wouldn't admit what she was mad
about. She claimed it was the
shortening. 1 feel it was jealousy,
but she wouldn't admit it. She
said that wasn't it. She said she
hated for someone to go around
in her stuff, her cooking stuff,
like that. She cooks at the office.
“A teacher came by there to
Visit, and she started to cook. I
asked her to cook, Imt when O
dessa objected about the .-shorten
ing, she (tin- teacher who mys
teriously entered the case) didn't
cook. I cut the girl's visit short
and sent her away."
Acting Coroner W. W. Biggs,
stating that an autopsy had been
performed, described the path of
the bullet, stating there were no
signs of powder burns, that it i
impossible to always tell the dis
tanee a gun is from a victim be
cause of the type of powder used
He said there was an inch-long
scratch' on the woman's left arm
and that the right temple was ex
tended, possibly because of intern
al bleeding
The healing attracted a f.otly
large number of colored citizens
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