Salisbury, Aug. 19—A jury summoned by Coroner H.H. Newman today held A.R. Kepley, a white farmer of the Crescent section of Rowan county for further investigation by a grand jury, under $1,000 bond for the killing by an automobile of Stokes Foard, a 70-year-old negro man. The affair occurred last evening at the corner of Bank and Long streets in a residential section of this city.
The negro man was crossing Long street when hit by the car, which an eye witness said was making 25 to 30 miles an hour, and which knocked the negro about 20 feet. Death occurred a few minutes after.
Kepley did not stop his car but sped on, it is alleged. The eye witness got his number and reported to the police, and Kepley was arrested at his home near Crescent, some distance east of Salisbury, an hour later. He admitted hitting a man but told the officers he did not know he had hurt him.
From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Aug. 20, 1924
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