Hickory, Sept. 12—Allen B. Councill, 20, is dead and Prentiss George, Cherryville, was badly injured as a result of a collision between a motorcycle and an automobile at 5:30 this afternoon a mile and a half on the Central highway towards Newton.
The two young men on the motorcycle, which Councill was driving, had just passed a car coming in the direction of Hickory when they ran head-on into an automobile occupied by B.B. Osborne of Raleigh and driven by miss Inez Yoder of Newton. Osborne, from all accounts, ran his machine off the highway in order to avoid the collision, and he and his companions were in no wise at fault.
It is said that young Councill was looking back at another motorcycle occupied by Ralph Hutton and Miles Sherrill, when the collision occurred. The first motorcycle swung around an incoming car and met the Raleigh machine before its driver had time to more than sound a warning. Councill, who was a son of former Judge and Mrs. W.B. Councill, was a student at the university last term and had planned to return next week. Prentiss George is a son of John J. George of Cherryville. He sustained a broken leg and other injuries.
The impact wrecked the motorcycle and damaged the automobile. Osborne, who is stopping at a local hotel, was suffering from shocks tonight and Miss Yoder, who sustained cuts on the arm, also needed the attention of a physician.
From the front page of the Lincoln County News, Lincolnton, Monday afternoon, Sept. 17, 1923
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