Wayne-Greene County NcArchives Obituaries.....Pritchard, Bettie Howell September 19, 1902
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Goldsboro Headlight Sept.25,1902
White Man Kills His Wife
 Mr. James Pritchard, who lived on the farm of Mr. E. C. Exum, in Nahunta 
township, was bought to this city by Sheriff Scott Saturday night and jailed 
on the charge of murdering his wife Friday night about 9:30 o'clock, having 
shot her through the right lung with No. 8 bird shot and blowing the right 
hand off while in a drunken frenzy upon his return from Wilson that night.
 The couple had frequent quarrels, and when his wife refused to give him $50 
which he gave her some time ago he began slashing her with a knife and then 
brought his gun into action. The only witness to the tradegy was their 6 year 
old daughter, whom he afterwhile carried to a neighbor's house. 
 The woman's dead body was found by neighbors the next morning about 10 
o'clock lying across the bed. The murderer was soon apprehended in a canal 
with his gun and blood on his hands.
 Pritchard is a native of Guilford county and about 55 years old. He has been 
married twice and has two children by his first wife, which his relatives are 
taking care of, his last wife being 33 years old.    


Additional Comments:
Bettie Howell, daughter of Cullen and Winnie Sauls Howell, was born about 1869 
in Greene County and died Sept. 19, 1902. James Webb Pritchard, was born March 
18, 1853 in Guilford County and died April 6, 1937 in Alamance County. Their 
daughter was Rachel Pritchard Sutton. James Pritchard had two children by his 
first marriage to Florence Allen, Charlie Jackson Pritchett and Rosa Pritchett 
Shaw. They spelled the last name differently. James Pritchard also married for 
a third time to Emma Simpson Wyatt, widow of James Wyatt. 

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