New York, Sept. 6—Sight seeing in New York for the first time in his life, and but 12 hours after he had left the United States navy destroyer Raleigh, J.E. Allen, a sailor of Raleigh, North Carolina, was lured to a Harlem roof this morning, brutally attacked, and in the course of a terrific struggled to save his valuables, either was pushed or fell to his death in a court yard seven stores below.
Indignant at the attack upon the sailor before his fleet had been in New York harbor 24 hours, Vice Admiral J.C. McKean ordered a navy board of inquiry to investigate the sailor’s death. They were co-operating last night with detectives of the West 135th Street Station.
From the front page of The Concord Times, Monday, Sept. 7, 1925
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