By Brock Barkley
Raleigh, Sept. 25—A meal of oysters closely following a drink of whiskey was assigned by the Wake County Coroner as the cause of the death this afternoon of M.L. McNelis, plumber of Winston-Salem and son of C. McNelis, a prominent real estate man of Charlotte.
McNelis with three other Twin City men, M.U. Brinkley, D.M. Allen and Paul Johnson, left Winston-Salem for Raleigh last Friday. The trip was sort of a “party” so that the tour was greatly delayed. Reaching Durham this afternoon, they preceded the supper of oysters with a drink of liquor.
On the outskirts of Raleigh an hour later, they stopped to brush off. McNelis, whom they thought had been sleeping on the way, was found to be dead when they tried to awaken him. None of the dead man’s companions were held by the Coroner.
This death is said to have been one of a series occurring here within the last 30 days to which whiskey was attributed as the cause.
From the front page of the Asheville Citizen, Tuesday, Sept. 26, 1922
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