Totty Perry, a negro barber committed to the city jail Tuesday on complaint of his wife, grew angry and tried to hang himself from the bars of his cell early Wednesday morning. It seems that the stork had visited Perry’s home three or four days before, but Perry, being drunk, seemed to expect the marriage relations to be the same, so that it was necessary to incarcerate him for several days. Perry was very profane all during the night, and swore he would break his wife’s heart. Jailer Albertson found him suspended by the neck with his belt, just in time to save him from strangulation.
From the front page of The Elizabeth City Independent, July 14, 1922
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