Purvis Pleasant, 19, Murdered, Silas Messer, Percy Barber Robbed, Dec. 28, 1920

Purvis Pleasant, 19, was murdered three miles east of Raleigh when four negroes held up and robbed him and two companions, Silas Messer and Percy Barber, while the three where en route to Angier, Johnston county, from Raleigh in an automobile. (From the front page of the Monroe Journal, Tuesday, Dec. 28, 1920)