John Henry in Jail Following Death of Miss Ruth Rippey in Car Accident, Nov. 4, 1923

Driver of Death Car Is Captured

By the Associated Press

Greensboro, N.C., Nov. 4—John Henry Henry, the negro who is alleged to have been the driver of an automobile which ran into a party of nine women and children near Haw River late yesterday, resulting in the death of Miss Ruth Rippey, and Ree Ford, alleged owner of the car, were brought to Greensboro this morning about 3 o’clock by an Alamance county officer and lodged in Guilford county jail for safe keeping. Henry, who escaped after the accident and was captured in the railway station at Burlington this morning about 1 o’clock, while presumably waiting for a train. All the injured are recovering.

From the front page of the Durham Morning Herald, November 5, 1923