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Convicted Man Says
Shot Was Accidental
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J. D. itKoad Claims He DoifMa't Know
How Pistol That Killed Wilson
Was Fired.
were related by witness** substan
tially as fallows: On Monday night,
'•preceding^ the killing
Mr. and Mrs. Holman Hartzog were
spending the night with Mr. and Mrs.
John D. Rhoad. After retiring, they
saw a man pass the window of thV
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proposed that the three go to Rhoad's
home and measure the trades.
Bamberfr, Feb. 25.—John D. Rhoad’s
defense, when he was tried for the
skying of Henry Wilson here . last
week, was that hts (Rhoad's) pistol
wa 8 discharged when the two men
scuffled. Rhoad, a magistrate’s con
stable, said that he did not know how
the gun was fired.
Rhoad, who wa s convicted of man
slaughter and sentenced to serve three
years in the State penitentiary,
through his attorneys, has served
notice of appeal and been released on
93,000 bo‘nd.
Events leading up to the tragedy
country home, and Hartzog said he
recognized htimrs Henry Wilson. —“
Wilson Not at Home.
- The two men got up and made—a
search for him, but failed to catch
him, they said, and went to Wilson’s
home in Blackville, but failed to find
Wilson at home. They returned home
and later went back to Blackville :
where they saw Wilson “coming home
in a trot’’ and excited.
Rhoad accused Wilson of snooping
around his house, which Wilson de
nied. A scuffle ensued, in which
Rhoad said Wilson’s pistol fell out
of his pocket, i Rhoad took the bullets
out and kept the gun, and it was then
they waid. and they
started to Wilson’ 8 home so he could
tell his wife where he was going, but
before going in Rhoad returned Wil-
eon his empty pistol, which Wilson
tried to shoot him with, snapping it
at Kim, «nd
gave up the idea of Wilson returning
with him.
Quote “Window” Story;
Several witnesses testified the next
day Wilson told them he had been to
the home of. Rhoad the 7 night before,
and that he saw Mr. and Mrs. Rhoad
and Mr. and Mrs.' Hartzog in a com
promising situation through the bed
room windows, and one witness said
he communicated this stofy of Wil
son’s to Rhoad’s wife, after failing to
find Rhoad, although another witness
said the alleged informant was work
ing at a school house at the time he
was alleged to have been in B’ack-
ville hearing the story from Wilson.
Mrs.
tion and told her husband a partial
story and-later the full story oT the
Wilson narrative. ^
Wednesday afternoon Wilson pass
ed by Rhoad’s house on the highway
walking snd he stopped, being seen
by a witnes s in the Rhoad house, and
Rhoad knew of it, but did nothing at
that time.
A few hours later he came up going
back toward Blackville and stopped
and gazed into the Rhoad house.
Rhoad asked his wife to go with him
to confront Wilson^with his alleged
infamous story about his wife, but
she declined, and Rhoad got hi g gun
and started out.. A neighbor in the -
house requested him not to take his
gun, and he gave it back to her, but
wa.3 armed with hi 8 pistol, which he
carried continuously as a magis
trate 8 constable.'
Accused of P<
peeping intoj
his window and of telling malicious
falsehoods regarding his wife. Wil
son, he said, replied that -every word
of it was true and he was ready to
Cotton Control Bill
Modified by Congren
have it out with him.
Rhoad said he saw It was a case of
fight and he pulled his pistol and hit
Wilson over the bead twice with it.
In the scuffle, he said, when Wilson
reached toward hi s pocket, the pistol
was discharged and he did not know
who fired it. Wilson fell in the high
way with mortal wounds, dying a
short time afterwards in a hospital.
. The State in rebuttal sought to dis
credit some of the defense witnesses
aa to their whereabouts and what they
did in connection with events before
the tragedy.
Rewritten to Allow Ten MiHiOn Bales
to Be Sold from 1934 Crop 1
Free of Tax.
Washington, Feb. 26.—Modified to
provide that 10,000,000 bale 8 of cot
ton may be sold tax free from the
1934 cropr the Bankhead compulsory
cotton control bill tonight appeared
likely to' receive the' approval tomor
row of the house agriculture commit
tee. '~
In line with a suggestion by Secre
tary Wallace committee members from
cotton producing States plan to label
the bill as an “emergency measure to
enable a better defense if its con
stitutionality is attacked in the courts.
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