Disagreement over a girl is said to have resulted in the death of Matthew Parker, 18-year-old Negro youth of Hertford, who was shot by Elton Parker, 21, in front of Dr. Sharp’s drug store, Saturday night following a moving picture show. The shooting occurred about ?? (obscured).
Elisha Dale started with the wounded boy to Elizabeth City hospital, a distance of 18 miles, but he died within a mile of the scene. Elton Parker, who did the shooting, surrendered Monday afternoon and was placed in jail awaiting trial.
This is the second murder in a year in which the principals were Hertford people. Elisha Goodwin, a white man, was shot last fall by Herbert Chappell, husband of the ?? of Goodwin, while they were in the Piney Woods section of Perquimans.
From the front page of The Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., Friday, February 8, 1924
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