An automobile, bowling along eastward at high speed 4 miles west of Hillsboro on the State highway Saturday evening, ran down a small negro boy and knocked him unconscious. The boy was out on the dirt part of the road beside the pavement.
The traveler, instead of stopping to give aid to the boy, sped on.
It happened that in the car just behind was James Manning Jr. of Raleigh. Mr. Manning saw the boy fall to the ground. Seeing that a woman was attending to the youngster, he decided to postpone his service to these two and go after the man in the car instead.
The chase went on for four miles. Mr. Manning came near enough to learn the number of the New York license of the culprit. Near Hillsboro the car got away from him.
A.H. Graham, whom Mr. Manning told of the affair, wrote at once to the secretary of state of New York, giving the license number and asking the name of the owner of the car. When last heard from the negro boy had regained consciousness and was improving. If he turns out to have been seriously injured, Mr. Graham intends to send an officer to New York to get the driver and bring him back to North Carolina for trial.
From the front page of The Chapel Hill Weekly, Friday, Sept. 11, 1925
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