Excerpt from the Goldsboro Items column:

Our honored townsman, H.F. GRAINGER, Esq., made one of his grandest efforts at the Kinston bar during Lenoir Superior Court last week in the case of the State vs. Henry KENNEDY, for the murder of __________. He prosecuted.

Source: Banner-enterprise (Raleigh, NC). 3 May 1883. Available at Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers.