A number of huntsmen around Halifax went out after deer and as usual placed the various hunters on stand. The dogs jumped a deer and R.T. Nethery, prominent farmer, noticing a disturbance in the bushes near his stand, and thinking it a deer. To his horror he heard the groans of a human being, and rushing forward found the body of Claude Ellis, colored, with a buckshot would through the heart. This unfortunate incident cast a gloom over the entire community, and serves to impress upon hunters the necessity of always being careful when taking part in a hunt.
From The Roanoke News, Weldon, N.C., Sept. 22, 1921
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