Julie Ann French Greer

Suicide

The Tobacco Outlet on North Main Street was robbed by a woman with a gun. She took a pack of cigarettes. A police officer happened to witness the robbery. An off-duty Gaffney officer in the store who called Cowpens police as she left. An off-duty Cowpens police officer was close by, and the two officers spotted the woman near Cemetery and Rutledge streets. The officers said she sat down and shot and killed herself with the pistol.