Wentworth, Jan. 23—Ed Pugh, a crazy negro, who was taken in custody by the officers in Reidsville Sunday night, and who was removed to the county jail for safe keeping, hung himself in a cell at the jail yesterday. He was placed in a padded cell, and later was found hanging from a support, having used his shirt that he had torn and twisted, to take the shape of a rope.
From the front page of the Tri-City Daily Gazette, Leaksville, N.C., Wednesday, Jan. 23, 1924
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