By the Associated Press
Wilmington, N.C., Dec. 29—The body of J.L. Hargrove, 40, employed by a local furniture company, was found by a negro boy lying in the street in a sparsely settled section of the city tonight. A gaping hole in the left breast inflicted by a charge of buckshot was the cause of death, the coroner said. Police say that a small bottle of liquor was found in the dead man’s pockets.
John Cox, negro, was arrested, charged with the murder. Cox, the police say, was carrying a shotgun when apprehended, told several conflicting stories of his whereabouts earlier in the night.
From the front page of the Durham Morning Herald, Sunday, Dec. 30, 1923
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