"WILSON COUNTY MAN IS ASSASSINATED"
Goldsboro Daily Argus, August 4, 1921
"Wilson, N.C., Aug. 4--William Whitley, a prominent farmer and merchant of Walstonburg, this county, was shot and killed last night while asleep at his tobacco barn, where he was curing tobacco.
There is no clue to the guilty party, and today the sheriff and posses with blood hounds are scouring the whole neighborhood in an effort to trace the murderer.
Mr. Whitley leaves a wife and six children."
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