The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-01-02
THREE ARE JAILED
FOR SHOOTING OF
WALLACE MERCHANT
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two boys. in the Fender county jail
to await trial without bond.
Sheriff Brown said Setter stated
that he and Clifton Piner planned
the robbery of Mr.. Carr for some
time, but that on previous occa-
sions their plans fell through.
Plans for the robbery were for
the week of Christmas but these
also failed and following this they
agreed to lure Mr.. Carr to the old
Piner house on the Wallace Willard
road near the Coastal Plain Test
Farm, and rob him on Friday,
December 81.
Clifton was to do the job, Set
ger stated, according to the sher-
if, eff / would get Stedman Carr
down to the old house and we were
to split the money between us. we
have been like two brothers and
we have discussed and planned
the robbery of Stedman on several
occasions"
Clifton wanted car so bad
that we talked about the robbery
quite often when we were getting
wood, feeding pigs and doing the
general farm work. I wrote the
note which Raymond Piner car
ried to Mrs. Fred Stevens asking
her to call Stedman Carr and tell
him to meet us at the old house
Friday evening. After l sent the
note to Mrs. Stevens by Raymond
Piner. l returned home and then
went to Willard. Several telephone
calls had been made by Setter On
previous days in which he tried to
sell Mr.. Carr some hides and furs.
In his call he told Mr.. Carr that
he had the furs at the old Plner
house. Two of these calls were
made at the Willard depot in the
presence of M. E. Edwards, sta
ton agent for the Atlantic Coast
Line railroad" Setter is reported
to have said in his confession.
RAYMOND Piner told Investigate
ing officers that he saw Richard
Setter write the note, and that
Setter asked him to take 1t to
Mrs Fred Stevens.
There was no one at nome
when I reached the Stevens
house" reported the little boy
and 1 saw Mr.. Stevens at the
Coastal Plains Test farm. He
called to me and I carried the
note to him. 1 went back to the
house with girl who made
telephone call. After the girl made
the telephone call she stold me
to tell Setter that he would be
there at 4 o'clock"
The note which Raymond Piner
delivered to Stevens at the Test
farm is as follows:
Mrs. Stevens, call Stedman
Carr, phone 276-6. Tell him to
come up to the old house and
get the furs l called him about
the other day. He will understand
when to come. FSiane6 Carl Pin
er."
This note took Stedman Carr
Oh the trip which was to cost
him his life. Mr.. Carr left his
hardware store around 4 o'clock
Friday afternoon in his pickup
truck. Before his death, Mr.. Carr
said that he went to the old Plner
house and knocked On the front
door. He said he heard someone
inside say Come in" and upon
entering the front room he did
not see anyone but that he heard
the same voice in the next room
say Come in" that when he
entered the second room a man
was standing there masked with
a gun in his hands and this man
ordered him to stick his hands
I'D after which he shot him. Mr.
Carr received one gun shot wound
IN his abdomen. After receiving
this wound, he drove his pickup
truck back to Wallace, approx
nately one mile, to the office OF
DR.. J. D. Robinson, who gave
him first aid treatment. He was
rushed to James Walker hospital
IN Wilmington shortly afterwards.
Funeral services for Mr.. Carr
viii be conducted Sunday after
room at 3 o'clock from the Wal
lace Presbyterian church by the
Rev. NJ. J. Murray, followed by
interment in the Rockfish ceme-
tery.
Survivors are his parents, his
widow, Beulah Morris Carr; two
children, Barbara Carr, IL, and
otedman Carr, Jr., IL; three Sis
ters. Mrs. Daniel D. Williams,
Rose Fill, Mrs. W. p. Sutton, Will
Jnington, Mrs. Eugene ColWell.
Wallace, and one brother, Jack