Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1897-10-07
A HEINOUS MURDER.
MIR. LON CARR FOUND MURDERED
IN HIS ROOM.
THE CORONER'S INQUEST.
Sam Wright is Held to Answer for His Life
Saturday Night.

AAC C1IlAOh0 VI OO1oO0SAo ~
startled Sunday morning on is
suing from their homes into the
warm Sabbath sunshine by the
announcement that a horrible MUIR
der had been committed during
the night, in the country. Mr..
Lon Carr, who kept a little store at
the fence law gate in Fork town
ship, and who slept alone in the
store, in a small bed room cut off
from the main part, was discov,
cred undressed in his bed room,
lying on the floor, in a pool of
blood, with his head nearly sevs
cred from his body: a CHASTITY
sight, and a most fendish murder.
As we have stated, Mr. Carr
kept a little store, in which he
sold groceries, ETC., and wine. On
Saturday he had a chill, and being
unwell, he was assisted in waiting
on his customers by Sam Wright,
a large negro, who claimed Colds
boro as his home, and whose wife
lives here and cooks out, but WHO
himself worked about through the
country on farms, and was at this
time employed by Mr.. Ballard
Hastings, in the neighborhood.
Mr.. Carr closed his store early
Saturday night and retired. Mr..
Jesse Morley passed the
store about 8 o'clock, returning
from this city, and, seeing the
door open and the store in dark
ness, stepped forward and called
Mr.. Carr. Receiving no answer,
he started to enter the store and in
loing so he Inadvertently took
hold of the door latch and the
door coming to with a slam locked
itself with a spring latch, and he
was locked out. He called again
on Mr.. Carr aloud, and still re-
ceiving no reply he became some
what uneasy and going on to Mr.,
H. II. Coor's he hailed and re-
ported the incident to Mr.. Coor i.
The latter suggested that he go on
to Mr.. Needham Falls, near by,
the father-ln-law of Mr.. Carr,
(who was a widower, and has one
child living with its grandfather
Mr.. Fail, and report the matter
to him. This Mr.. Morley did,
and Mr.. Fail, his son Needham,
Mr.. Morley, MI J. S. Snipes,
and perhaps some other of the
neighbors, returned to the store,
borrowed a lantern from
Bryant Capps, who lives near the
store, and going to the rear of The
| store effected an entrance through
Mr.. Carr's bed room window.
and no sooner had they done Sc
than the CHASTITY sight above re-
corded met their startled and hor
riied vision. The room floor wa!
flooded with blood, and higl
up on the wall itIwas spurted
from the jugular veins ant
arteries of the dead man through
agaping wound in his throat, from
ear to ear, nearly severing hi
head from his body. 1t is irn'
possible to describe or imagin'
the scene. Strong men who hat
witnessed slaughter and death Of
a hundred battle fields looked OF
this grastly sight yesterday anc
turned faint and sick. It was
most fendish butchery.
How the Deed Was Done.
Just at the entrance to the be-
room from the store sits a barre
of wine. just beside the faucet Q
this barrel sat a small hand lamp
under the faucet sat a sma
measure; the faucet was turne
on, the measure was full of win
and the contents of the barre
had all run out all over the floor
and the front door, which unit
Mr.. Worry closed it as above
was open. The entrance to tn
bed room has no door-it is sim
ply an open entrance: the fauce
of the wine barrel is right at th
side of this open entrance, S
that a person drawing wiz
would sit sideways in this er
trance. The supposition-wit