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- Haywood Hall: a report presented to the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of North Carolina and the Haywood Hall Committee of the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of North Carolina [vol. 1]
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- Date
- 1984
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- ["Griggs, Linda Mackie."]
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- ["Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina, United States"]
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Haywood Hall: a report presented to the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of North Carolina and the Haywood Hall Committee of the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of North Carolina [vol. 1]
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Chapter VI
ERNEST HAYWOOD'S OWNERSHIP
Ernest Haywood, 1881-1920
Upon graduating from the University of North Carolina in 1880, Ernest
pursued a law degree at the Dick and Dillard Law School in Greensboro. He
graduated in 1882, and set up practice in Raleigh with his brother Alfred as the
firm of Haywood and Haywood, on the corner of Fayetteville and Martin Streets.
Ernest and Alfred practiced together until Alfred's retirement in 1895. 1
Ernest became a lawyer of great repute in Wake County. His specialties
were commercial, corporate, insurance, real estate, and probate law. In 1927
he was president of the Wake County Bar Association, and in later years was
referred to as the dean of the Raleigh Bar.
In February 1903 a chilling event took place. Late in the afternoon of 21
February, after an argument, Ernest shot and killed John Ludlow Skinner in front
of the Raleigh Post Office. Ernest surrendered himself immediately after the
shooting, and pleaded not guilty to the charge of murder.4
After two continuances, the trial took place in October 1903. The event
was the talk of the city; the progress of the trial was monitored on the front
page of the local paper every day for about two weeks. There were two hundred
witnesses, and one thousand pages of evidence.
In a nutshell, the sequence of events was as follows: Ernest left the
courthouse sometime after four o'clock in the afternoon of the twenty-first.
Ludlow Skinner came out of the post office at about the same time, and the two
men met in front of the post office. They spoke briefly, then Skinner hit
Haywood, knocking him to the ground. Skinner stepped back about 10 feet, and
moved his hand toward his left hip pocket where, it was later discovered, he had
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