The daily times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1902-1936, 1919-05-14
WILLIAMS
NOT GUILTY
Charged With the Killing of
Carl Viverette for AL
legged Slander
OF HIS AUG H T E r

At four o'clock this afternoon, af- |
ter being out half an hour the jury
turned verdict of not guilty.
The trial of Mr.. George Williams
for the shooting of Mr.. Carl Viverett
June 9th. 1918. for alleged SANDER
of his daughter, Miss Ruby Will
liams, which begun yesterday after-I
noon, was continued today.
The defendant was on the stand
yesterday for about half an hour and
counsel for defense endeavered to
have admitted the relationship said
to have existed between Carl Viver-
ett, deceased, who left a wife and
son, and the daughter of Williams,
a girl of Is years DID, The defense
|cf Williams is that Viverett had been
uttering slanderous remarks about
his daughter and that is the reason
why he shot Viverett, though this
was not allowed to come out at the
! trial.
There were number of witnesses
examined and those for the state tes-
titled that on the day the shooting
occurred Williams went to Viverett's
garage, and not finding him there
saw Viverett standing on the porch
of his home nearby, and called to
him to come over. Viverett answer
ed he was coming, and after a few
words the shooting began. 1t was in
evidence that Williams shot first,
One bullet entered Viverett's side
coming out on the other side of his
body. Viverett dropped and died in
a few minutes. Both men were
shooting rapidly. Williams shot five
times, while Viverett fired three
times and every bullet struck Will
Jams. One his finger, one his arm
:, and the other in his abdomen. The
latter bullet is still in Williams
body and kept him confined in a
local hospital in this city for some
weeks.
| One of the main witnesses for the
defense tbs morning was Mr.. Lloyd
Sharp, who stated that he was sew
enteen years old. He was an eye
witness to the shooting at it's begin
ming. He related that Mr.. Will
liams approached him about report
that Viverett had circulated regard
ing him, Sharp and the young lady,
daughter of Mr.. Williams. This re-
port Sharp denied, and on the morn
ing of the shooting, which occurred
about 9 o'clock, Sharp was present
when the two men came together
land Williams informed Viverett thai
Sharp denied making any sucf
statements about the young lady, Oh
anything but correct. Viveret
. cursed Williams and then he asked
Viverett VIII y he did not come tt
!, him and tell him about it rather thar
go to his wife land tell her. H,
said that it was none of his business
Williams then pulled his pistol an,
Viverett backed away and with bot
J hands seemed to be trying to get hi
pistol out and fired once by thel
witnesses had gotten out of the way
Another important witness for tn
) defense was Mrs Williams wife O
: the defendant. She stated that Viv
2 erett came to her house and toll
1 her about relations existing betwee
D her daughter and young Sharp. Sh
D say Sharp and he made denial tha
= anything was wrong with the char
: acter of the young lady She sal
S that she told her husband and tha
d he did not sleep that night just be
S fore the shooting next day.. Whs
was said to the young man was neve
e allowed to go to the jury, and Mr.
Williams was not allowed to tell i
t She said that she was present at th
/ shooting and also her little son. Sh
IS testified that viverett came over
8, where they were when he was calle'
l. and that he pulled his pistol afte
i the conversation occurred and trie
e to shoot her husband, but that
J. missed fire and then he shot we
h ett, who fell on the edge of the sid
If walk.
i Speeches were made by soFicitt
al Allsbroek and Mr.. John E. Woodal
for the prosecution and by Mr. w Z
Finch for the defense