NEGRO FATALITIES
Two Dead And Several Injnred
Friday
Willie Yarbrough. 20, negro, was
shot and fatally wounded at G o’clock
Friday night in Sixth alley between
Thirtieth and Thirty-first streets
with a double-barrel shotgun. He
died at the Hillman hospital at 8
o'clock.
Henry Cobb, negro, was arrested
and is being held in the city jail
pending the outcome of Coroner J. D.
Russum’s formal Investigation Mon
day.
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Car Hit* Pole.
Ethel Underwood, negro, was in
stantly killed; Luther Hatches, negro,
was seriously injured, and Henry
Green and Florence Green, negroes,
were slightly injured at 5:30 o'clock
Friday afternoon, when an automo
bile driven by Henry Green struck a
telephone pole at First avenue and
Fifty-fourth street. The cause of the
accident is being investigated by the;
city polico department and Coroner
J. D. Russum.
The dead woman was sent to the
Bradford Undertaking .^company by
Coroner Russum.
Hatches was admitted to the Hill- j
man hospital suffering with a broken
leg atul lacerations and bruises about
the head and face. The other negroes
received medical treatment and were
discharged
Henry Gfeen was immediately ar
rested on an old warrant by W. E
Eubanks and placed in the county
jail on a charge of assault with in
tent to murder. He will be held
without bond pending tho outcome of
the investigation of the automobile
accident.
M’COY SENT TO BLOUNT
Assistant Solicitor John P. McCoy
has been appointed solicitor' for
Blount county for the week of No
vember 26. it was announced at the
court house Friday.
This Is the second time^within the
past few weeks Mr. McCoy has been
sent to another county ■to represent
the state in important cases, as he
was temporarily transferred to
Greensboro a short time ago.
