Statesville, N.C., March 23—Homer Barringer, a young white man of the Newton section, continued unconscious at Dr. Long’s Sanatorium here this afternoon and it is said that he has small chance of recovery.
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Held for Assault
Newton, March 23—Fred Brinkley, a young white man, is held in Catawba county jail in connection with the probably fatal injury of Homer Barringer, who is unconscious in a Statesville hospital with his head badly injured, probably by a rock. Sheriff Mauser has been unable to gather the details of the affair except that the trouble occurred at Brinkley’s home, about seven miles below Newton, Sunday night.
Barringer was brought to Newton Sunday night to have his wound dressed and seemed to be getting along all right. He became unconscious yesterday and was carried to the Statesville hospital. Seen at his home Monday by a deputy sheriff, he refused to discuss the affair, and all that could be learned was that the “Brinkleys” were in it.
Sheriff Mauser went to Statesville yesterday in hope of getting a disposition, but Barringer was unconscious. The young man is a member of a prominent Catawba county family.
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In Hickory Monday
Homer Barringer, reported in a critical condition in a Statesville hospital this afternoon, was in Hickory Monday, having come here on a truck. He was hit over the head with a rock at Fred Brickley’s home about seven miles below Newton, on Sunday night, according to information reaching Sheriff Mauser, who has had Brinkley arrested.
Efforts to gather details either heare or at Newton have failed. Baringer when conscious refused to talk, and persons who saw him here Monday say he appeared delirious. It was reported in Statesville this afternoon that Barringer escaped from a hospital in Hickory, but so far as could be learned, he did not consult physicians here or go near a hospital. Most of the doctors are attending the medical society meeting at Maiden.
From the front page of The Hickory Daily Record, March 23, 1921.
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