Tuesday, December 20, 2022

T.L. Nevell of Raleigh and Unknown Man Killed in Car Crash, Dec. 20, 1922

Two Men Dead as result of an Auto Smash Near Raleigh. . . Quantity of Whiskey Was Found in Wreckage After Accident

By Associated Press

Raleigh, N.C., Dec. 19—An unidentified man was killed instantly and a man identified as T.L. Nevell of Raleigh, a guard at the state prison farm, died shortly after being carried to a local hospital. The deaths were the result of the car in which they were riding running off a six-foot embankment about 100 yards from the Norfolk Southern railway crossing on the Fayetteville road five miles south of Raleigh tonight.

A bird dog was found beneath the overturned car unhurt. Nevell leaves a widow and three children. A quantity of whiskey was found in the wreckage of the car.

From the front page of The New Bernian, Dec. 20, 1922

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