{"id":481,"date":"2013-11-30T10:51:51","date_gmt":"2013-11-30T16:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/?p=481"},"modified":"2013-11-30T10:51:51","modified_gmt":"2013-11-30T16:51:51","slug":"defense-says-slayer-insane-1925","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/defense-says-slayer-insane-1925\/","title":{"rendered":"Defense Says Slayer Insane (1925)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Richmond County Courthouse, Rockingham, N.C., Oct. 3 (A.P.) &#8211; The first determined effort in the defense of <strong>William B. COLE<\/strong> to prove the wealthy cotton manufacturer insane at the time he killed <strong>W.W. ORMOND<\/strong>, his daughter&#8217;s former sweetheart, came today.<\/p>\n<p>A crowded courtroom also heard the state charge the defense with publishing copies of &#8220;slander&#8221; letters received by <strong>COLE<\/strong> for the purchase of creating sentiment in his behalf and obtaining evidence for his cause.<\/p>\n<p>After COLE was submitted to a gruelling three-hour cross-examination during which the state sought to force the admission that he killed <strong>ORMOND<\/strong> &#8220;to shut his tongue&#8221; and not to protect himself, the defense swore five witnesses, two of whom testified to the &#8220;queer acts&#8221; of the defendant.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: Sarasota Herald-Tribune, 4 October 1925.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/newspapers?nid=A7-hzOuI2KQC\" target=\"_blank\">Available at Google News Archive.\u00a0<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richmond County Courthouse, Rockingham, N.C., Oct. 3 (A.P.) &#8211; The first determined effort in the defense of William B. COLE to prove the wealthy cotton manufacturer insane at the time he killed W.W. ORMOND, his daughter&#8217;s former sweetheart, came today. A crowded courtroom also heard the state charge the defense with publishing copies of &#8220;slander&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,49],"tags":[516,517],"class_list":["post-481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-death","category-richmond","tag-cole-william-b","tag-ormond-w-w"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4CY8G-7L","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}