While she was walking home from work,Gladys was assaulted. She died of a fractured skull. The perpetrator was identified by the clothes he had left in the woods. The man was chased to a mountain town about thirty miles away where he was shot by a sheriff's posse led by then Sheriff Hallyburton. His body was brought back and left in the courthouse square, where more than 6,000 people came to view it. It was a shocking experience for a small southern town, and a horrible tragedy for the Kincaid family.
The people of Morganton paid for Gladys's tombstone, a marble lamb made by Denton stoneworks.
While she was walking home from work,Gladys was assaulted. She died of a fractured skull. The perpetrator was identified by the clothes he had left in the woods. The man was chased to a mountain town about thirty miles away where he was shot by a sheriff's posse led by then Sheriff Hallyburton. His body was brought back and left in the courthouse square, where more than 6,000 people came to view it. It was a shocking experience for a small southern town, and a horrible tragedy for the Kincaid family.
The people of Morganton paid for Gladys's tombstone, a marble lamb made by Denton stoneworks.