Mrs. Harold Horrox in Hospital Following Senseless Attack, Oct. 21, 1920

Mrs. Harold Horrox of this city is a patient in a Charlotte hospital suffering from a severe cut on her face under her right eye sustained Sunday about six miles north of Charlotte when an unidentified white man hurled a rock at the car in which Mr. and Mrs. Horrox and Don Burgess, also of this city, were traveling. The party was en route to Charlotte to visit friends when Mrs. Horrox was injured. According to information reaching Mr. and Mrs. W.D. Burgess, of this city, parents of Mrs. Horrox, the party was traveling along at a fair rate of speed when a white man stepped from behind some bushes on the side of the road and hurled a rock at the passing machine. The missile struck Mrs. Horrox and inflicted the painful wound The car was stopped for but a moment when it was deicded the thing to do was to get medical attention for the wounded woman. (From the front page of The Review, High Point, N.C., Oct. 21, 1920) https://docsouth.unc.edu/nc/charities1922/charities1922.html