Record #:

15381

Author(s):

Bryant, H.E.C. (Red Buck)

Abstract:

Bryant continues his series of articles about his journalism career as a cub reporter in Charlotte and as a Washington correspondent reporting on happenings in the nation's capital. In this article he relates his experiences as he covers the Shemwell murder trial which took place in Lexington in the summer of 1895. Baxter Shemwell, a wealthy Lexington citizen, shot and killed Dr. Robert I. Payne, one of North Carolina's leading physicians, on the streets of Lexington.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 2 Issue 27, Dec 1934, p8, 22

Subject(s):

Bryant, Henry Edward Cowan (Red Buck), 1873-1967