By the Associated Press
Winston-Salem, Dec. 2—Upon finding the bones of a human leg and foot with a shoe still clinging to it, a youth quit his job of cleaning out a well on an unoccupied farm near here this afternoon. Investigation revealed the skeleton of a human, while a shoe, parts of clothing, two rusted pennies and a knife were also found in the well.
From the condition of the bones and the clothing it appears that the body had been in the well for three or four years, it is said, while a huge hole in the left side of the skull and a crack that circled the skull led the investigators to believe that the man had been murdered and thrown in the well.
The shoe found on a foot appeared to be a number six size, and was a button shoe. The bones were carried to the sheriff’s office awaiting further developments.
From the front page of the Durham Morning Herald, Wednesday, Dec. 3, 1924
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