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Saturday, July 20, 2024

Ida Covington Killed; 4 Others Wounded, July 20, 1924

Negro Kills One and Wounds Four

Scotland Neck, July 19—Gerson Cotton, negro, killed Ida Covington, a negress, and wounded four other negroes this afternoon with one cartridge fired from a single barrel shotgun during a brawl near here. One of the wounded is a five-year-old girl. Cotton fired from the highway about 20 feet from the porch on which the five were huddled together. Cotton has not been apprehended at a late hour tonight.

From page 2 of the Durham Morning Herald, Sunday, July 20, 1924

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