Boy Scout Killed Trying to Hop on Truck Running Board, March 13, 1923

Boy Scout Is Killed Under Truck Wheels

Lexington—Henry Dickerson, Boy Scout, met almost instant death here when he fell beneath a moving truck which he was attempting to board. One wheel of the truck, loaded with crushed stone, is said to have passed over the boy’s head or neck, and he died before he could be removed to his home nearby.

Young Dickerson was one of a band of Scouts on their way to make inspections of yards following a spring “clean-up” campaign. Several other Scouts caught the rear of the truck, which was driven by John Green, well known young white man of this community, but Dickerson ran around to the side, and when he attempted to step on the running board he slipped and fell on the paved street.

From the front page of the Roanoke Beacon, Plymouth, N.C., March 13, 1923