Walter Combs and Jim Combs, Elizabeth City negroes, are in Pasquotank jail as a result of an automobile wreck at Davis Store about a mile beyond Berea Church Wednesday morning before daybreak. They will be arraigned in police Court Thursday morning on charges of reckless driving, operating an automobile while under the influence of liquor and of drunkenness and disorderly conduct. Sheriff Reid says it is possible that there will be other charges as well.
News of the wreck reached Elizabeth City in the form of an emergency call to the Community Hospital, from which an ambulance was dispatched to the wreck and brought the two men back to the hospital for treatment. Examination disclosed that their hurts were not serious, Walter having a slight cut on the head and Jim having a broken thumb; but that both men were in a drunken stupor. Consequently, they were turned over to Sheriff Reid who stationed a guard at the hospital until morning and then locked them up in jail.
News of the wreck reached Elizabeth City in the form of an emergency call to the Community Hospital, from which an ambulance was dispatched to the wreck and brought the two men back to the hospital for treatment. Examination disclosed that their hurts were not serious, Walter having a slight cut on the head and Jim having a broken thumb; but that both men were in a drunken stupor. Consequently, they were turned over to Sheriff Reid who stationed a guard at the hospital until morning and then locked them up in jail.
“Both men were still drunk when I locked them up,” said the sheriff, “one of them so drunk that he could hardly stand.
From the front page of The Daily Advance, Elizabeth City, N.C., Wednesday, April 18, 1923
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