Morganton, Dec. 2—Zink Davis of Shelby is dead and Church Jackson and Joe Hayes, also of Shelby, are held in Burke county jail here as a result of what officials described as a drunken brawl at Three Corners, 13 miles from this place early this morning.
Davis was brought to a local hospital today about noon and died 11 minutes after reaching the institution, a result of burns received when he went to sleep near a fire which the three men had built near the roadside where their automobile was wrecked sometime in the early morning today. His clothes were practically burned from his body. Officers said that the other two men were intoxicated when they reached the hospital with Davis. They are held on a technical charge.
From the front page of the Durham Morning Herald, Wednesday, Dec. 3, 1924
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