Clyde Whitaker, 16 years old, was probably fatally injured Saturday night when he fell from a tree while ‘possum hunting. In the fall young Whitaker suffered a broken arm and back, and at present he is paralyzed from his waist to his feet.
According to friends who were on the hunt, Whitaker fell when a limb of a tree he had climbed to get a ‘possum broke. He fell through a cedar tree to the ground, falling about 20 feet. He was rushed to a Charlotte hospital Sunday, and physicians there declared his condition is very serious.
Whitaker is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Whitaker of the Brown Mill community.
From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, November 5, 1923
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