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Negro Swears• Continued from nage one)washing windows.She told me. I can't satisfy my husband. Everything I do is wrorv I want you to kill him for me.' Miller said from the stand.I told her I ain't never done anything like ghat I told he. a already in trouble. She asked me did I have a gun. I told her no.She told me not to say anything about it.”Miller said he was cleaning floors at the home of* his parole officer, Miss Elizabeth Warren, sometime later, and saw a gun.HID THE GUN I said to myself. ‘I’ll get it.’ I picked up the gun. went outside and hid it in the hedge. I came back two nights later, and picked it up. Then I goes to the house where I’m staying and hides it behind the ihed. It stayed there about a week.”The lanky Negro said Mr. and Mrs. .Boyd asked him to do some odd jobs at their farmhouse on the following Saturday, and as he was working. Mrs. Boyd asked him again about killing her husband.I said I didn’t know, but I told her I’d bring a gun over here.He said he quit work about 5:30 p. m. on Wednesday, the day before Thanksgiving.I took the gun. wrapped in burlap bags, and rode my bicycle into Chocowinity. I left the bike on the edge of the woods and cameconvenient for them, where latest information on crop predictions and probable prices will be brought by specialists from N. C. State College.aaw the field. I came up to the.window.lt; * ITa JEflr _“They were sitting there playing | cards, she was facing the window.. i I 1‘alsed my hslnd as a‘ signal. —H When she finished a hand, she came out. making like she was; calling the dog. She told me to go ahead and shoot him. I said ‘I can’t do that. I told you I was already in trouble.’ I offered her the gun and I said ‘you shoot him.’ SHOT THROUGH WINDOW I pushed the safety catch on I the gun and handed it to her, and she shot him through the window. ;Then Miller told the court thatj Mrs. Boyd went back into the i house, got the keys to her hus-1 band’s car. and drove out of the yard and toward Chocowinity. with Miller sitting beside her on the ’ front seat.I said you shouldn't be sitting here. What would people say?”he related.
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Daily Record
Dunn, North Carolina, US
Fri, Jan 18, 1952
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