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Wednesday, August 18, 2021

Bob Rice Shot While Working at Torrence Methodist Church, Aug. 17, 1921

Newells Negro Is Shot From Ambush

Bob Rice, negro, was brought to the Good Samaritan Hospital here from Newells from 1 o’clock Wednesday suffering from a gun-shot wound, received from an unknown person Wednesday, about noon. He had been working on a well at Torrence Methodist church, a negro church, at Newells and had gone to a spring near by. As he came from the spring, someone shot him from ambush, the report from Newells said.

Charles G. Brown and Louis Johnson, rural policemen, went out to Newells on receiving a call from there. They found Rice was badly wounded and sent him to the hospital here for treatment as quickly as possible, no physician being obtainable in the neighborhood. The policemen themselves remained at Newells to investigate the shooting. It was said they had a clue on which they would work at a while before returning to the city.

From The Charlotte News, Aug. 17, 1921

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