The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1957-08-23
TONGUES WAC AS
NEVER BEFORE OVER
PAUL MURDER CASE
Bysfanders Predict Acquitted Of
Junius Grimes for Staying
OF Haywood Paul

The Staying Friday night Of
Haywood Paul, Beaufort County
farmer by socially prominent At,
torney Junius d. Grimes Jr. ha.
set off such a tongue-wagging il
Beaufort County as has not beer
noted in many a day.
Several circumstances immed
lately contributed to arousing the
curiousity of the public. Diplomat.
ic Sheriff Bill Rumley who never
likes to make anyone unhappy
contributed unwillingly or unwit.
tingly to the feverish increase OF
curiousity by his reticence toward
discussing the case.
Grimes, according to best avail
able information, had been a man
troubled in mind and heart for a
long time. His intense devotion for
his wife suffered great hurt at
hints brought him by well-mean-
ing friends from time to time.
At near midnight, Friday night,
he followed his wife to a tobacco
barn on his land, where Haywood
Paul, AZ, was curing tobacco. Paul,
farmer, who leased adjacent land
from Grimes father, was there.
Mr.. Grimes had something in mind
when he went, for he carried a
32-calibre pistol. When he got
there, he was more unhappy at
what he saw. He looked and as
sured himself beyond doubt in
his own mind that what he was
about to do was justified.
He pumped five bullets into
Paul, who was under the shed OF
the barn, and then he notified
officers who came to the scene.
Mrs. Grimes went wild with
hysteria. She rushed to her home
and barricaded the door of her
room. For a long time she would
admit no one but her father. She
may have become afraid for her
own life as result of the violent
scene she had witnessed. Being the
only eyewitness in this case, she
cannot be required to testify
against her husband. Reports this
week said that by Tuesday night
a reconciliation had been effected
between the couple.
Similar cases are reported every
day in the papers. There is a rash
of shootings by husbands of wives,
by wives of husbands, of third
parties by aggrieved mates going
on all over the country. But when
they come close home, people sit
up and take notice. No matter
what bystanders conclude may
have happened; no matter the sit
uation, there are still many similar
ones in progress in every county
in this state.
1t gives rise to some serious
thinking when examples of this
sort come close home. 1t is reason
able conjecture that many nearby
instances will slow up for a spell.
Caution at least, will be more gen.
orally observed for a time, and
clandestine meetings between cou-
Piles at night may be expected to
diminish in number.
Bystanders in Beaufort County
have long since appraised the sit
uation to their own satisfaction.
Public sympathy is largely with
him. He is a lawyer himself, and
he has hired numerous of the top
lawyers of Washington to repre-
sent him. Relatives of the deceased
say they will hire a lawyer to
assist Solicitor Walter Cohoon in
the prosecution, but it is believed
no lawyer in Beaufort County will
take the case; and one must be
found outside of the area.
Solicitor Cohoon himself has
never been vindictive nor unreal
sonable in the prosecutions. His
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