Hickory Carolinian: Henry WILLIAMS, the negro who fatally cut Harrison KINDER (also colored) at this place on Saturday night, the 21st of August, from which wound he died on the following Wednesday, was tried at Newton last Friday and Saturday, found guilty and sentenced by Judge BENNETT to be hanged on Friday, the 22nd of October.  This, we believe, is the first murderer ever sentenced from Catawba Court, and will be the first hanging at our court house.

Source: Raleigh News and Observer, 15 September 1880. Page 3.