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A daily look at some of The News & Observer headlines on this date in past years.
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On this day in 2020, a 36-year-old woman was indicted on federal charges for trying to hire a hit man to kill her husband in Durham, paying for the deed with $5,000 in Bitcoin.
Kristy Lynn Felkins, later sentenced to five years in prison, sought the killer through a scam website on the “dark web” and asked that the murder be staged to look like a mugging.
Before her arrest, Felkins sought a refund.
Musicians with the NC Symphony reached a temporary compromise with management after a weeklong walkout over pay, benefits and the refusal to grow larger. The striking musicians met with staff in a parking lot outside Memorial Auditorium and hammered out their agreement in the rain.
Meredith College in Raleigh voted by a split decision to admit students to the all-female Baptist school without regard to race or nationality. The college’s president said Meredith had received “two or three or maybe four” applications from Black students in the past few years.
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In 1926, a “drink-crazed old man” shot and killed the police chief in Washington, N.C., in the middle of a downtown street, then walked down the street and fired a bullet into his own temple.
Chief H.L. Dellinger responded to a citizen’s call to arrest Filmore Wright, who “had been in an intoxicated condition for several days and had been making himself noisome to the people on East Second Street,” The N&O reported.
Automobiles by the hundreds “rushed down lateral streets at break-neck speed” for a glimpse.
Dellinger was 41 with a wife and small child. “Little Washington” Mayor E.T. Stewart declared, “He was a splendid officer. … Dellinger never shirked his duty nor did he shrink from any danger.”
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