Kinchim Moore Arrested for Running Down Felton Purvis with His Car, Dragging Him a Half Block, Oct. 21, 1924

Colored Boy Run Down by Automobile. . . Boy Dragged Half Block Before Car Was Stopped

Felton Purvis, the 18-year-old colored boy who delivers clothes for Ambers Pressing Club, was run over Satrurday night by Kinchim Moore, a colored man who lives near Everett. The boy was very painfully hurt and his life was endangered.

Purvis was in front of Mrs. Fannie Carstarphen’s home on Main street when the car knocked him down and he was dragged as far as Mr. H.M. Burras’ residence, almost a half a block, when the car driven by Moore ran into a car that was parked, which stopped it. This probably saved the life of Purvis. Most of the flesh on the farm (arm? forearm?) was ground off, his head being bruised badly and one knee mashed.

Moore was placed under arrest by the police and is now in jail awaiting trial. He is charged with being intoxicated, speeding without lights on his car. The accident occurred about 10 o’clock when the delivery boy was making a trip up the street.

From the front page of The Enterprise, Williamston, Martin County, N.C., Tuesday, Oct. 21, 1924

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