The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-02-24
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the july went 10 LIT. .IOTl2.- s Office Oh
the fifth floor of the Tucker building
and determined upon a verdict. It took
them only a very few minutes to do il.
The verdict was:
w find that ]. Ludlow Skinner came
to his death by a pistol in the hands OF
Ernest Haywood"
DID HAYWOOD CALL HIM?
There IS another story of the shooting.
This is that as Mr.. Haywood was com
ing from the court house he saw Mr..
Skinner leaving the postoffce and called
him, saying: Ludlow, come here, I want
to speak to you a minute and as Mr..
Skinner approached Mr.. Haywood fired.
and that then Mr.. Skinner turned and
ran, Mr.. Haywood firing again
However, this is contradict ed by sew
eral who were near. and who say that it
would have been impossible for any
words to have passed without their hear
ing them. Moreover. Clerk Of the Court
w. NJ. Russ says that Mir. Haywood
had just paid him over some money, and
he had hardly commenced to make the
entry, as Mr.. Haywood went out of the
door, before he heard the shots. 1t would
have been entirely impossible, ne says,
for any conversation to have taken place.
The bulk of the evidence seems to
show that there was no conversation be-
tween the men. but that Mr.. Haywood,
standing near the southern steps of the
postoffice. saw Mr.. Skinner starting TO
cross Fayetteville street diagonally to-
ward Martin street, after leaving the
postoffice. Skinner was near the curb
ing, about sixteen feet from Haywood
when the first shot was fired, and about
thirty or forty feet away when the second
shot was fired.
Mr.. Skinner had just had q money or
der cashed in the postoffice.
The first man to reach Mr.. Skinner
when he fell was Logan Terrell. He caught
him just as he fell. but Skinner only
gasped once or twice and died, never
uttering a word. Almost at the same mo-
ment that Mr.. Terrell reached the strick-
en- man, Messrs. Frank Stronach, Willis
Briggs, A. Dughi and several others
rushed I'D and bore him into Johnson's
drug store.
Mrs. SINNERS grief was terrible to
witness.
When she first entered the store, Wild
| eyed and almost frantic with suspense.
for no one had told her the full truth,
she demanded: Where is Ludlow 2"
Mr.. Charlie Johnson, Mr.. Alf Thomp-
son. Col. Bryan Grimes and several
others who we're in the store, as quietly
as possible lei her to the body. With a
| wild scream she sank to the floor and
gave way to passionate grief. It was
heart-rending.
''Why didn't you all, do something to
help him." she walled.
Tell me how it happened"
90. I did my best to keep him from go
ing out this afternoon. l 'phoned to him
not - 'o~vn the office. I begged him not
to come down town.
Where IS Ernest Haywood? Why
didn't Ludlow shoot first? Did he shoot
him on sight?"
He meant to give those papers back,
He wrote for them, and he would have
sent them back. He was innocent"
90. God. how could he shoot a man
when his mother had just died?"
Presently Mr.. Charles NJ. Busbee came
in and Mr.. w. H. King.
Mrs. Skinner would not be persuaded
TO go home until told she could go with
Ludlow in the carriage.
As she was being conducted out of the
store she tainted and was carried back
and revived. Then she entered a car
riage and was driven home.
THEORIES AFLOAT.
There are many theories advanced as
to the causes that led up to the killing.
Mr.. Haywood was trustee or attorney
of the Ludlow estate, or that part Of it
that belonged to Mrs. Skinner. mother
Of Mr.. Ludlow Skinner, who died a few
days ago.
On Friday. one story goes, MI. Skinner
addressed a note and sent it by a negro
to Mr.. Haywood, requesting him very
politely to return all tho papers of the
Ludlow property, and send his fi'5 e.
his services. or words to that effect. Mr..
Haywood did not reply in writing, but
sent a message that he had no time &c
send tho papers.
Another version OF the same affair is
that Mr.. SINNERS note was peremptory,
demanding a return of the letters, and
that Mr.. H~aywood's message in reply
was very curt.
Both reports then go on to say, that
when Mr.. Skinner and Mr.. Haywood met
yesterday afternoon in Mr.. Haywood's
office Mr.. Skinner referred to his demand
for the papers, n that a difficulty arose
that resulted in the shooting on Tho
street.
However, there are many who believe
that the real root OF the whole thing rs
in the current report that ntre til q {
year ago in New York Mr.. Haywood wa;
secretly married to the sister of Mrs
Ludlow Skinner, the widow of the lat
Mr.. w. r. tucker. The story is that the
friends of Mrs. Tucker had said there
was a secret marriage, while Mr.. Hay
wood and some of his friends had made
denial Of such marriage.
Then there is a story along a differen
line. to this effect, that & short time ag;
5 the children of Mrs. Tucker came to Raj
eigh on a visit to relatives, leaving thejl
: mother in Boston. A few days ago, s.
runs the story, these children me
5 Mr.. Haywood on the street and he gay.
5 them q sum of money to spend; tina
I when Mrs. Skinner heard that Mr.. Hay
l wood had given this money to her sis
ter's children, she wrote him a note say
ing that she wished him to have nothing
to do with any of her family. and re
turning the money to him..
. And there is q sequel to this story, tia
q Mr. HavUood answered Mrs. Skinner