Lumberton, Nov. 14—Carl Watts, 13-year-old, is dead, and Wallace Smith is at large under a $500 bond for his appearance in superior court here as the result of a school boy fight which took place five miles east of here yesterday afternoon.
Watts died last night as the result of an injury he received when Smith, who is only a few months older, struck him over the head with a bucket he used to carry lunch to the little schoolhouse.
The fighting took place at the pump as the boys were walking home from school, and after the Watts boy was struck, he picked up a large stick and tried to continue the fight with Smith. They soon stopped and walked on home, the injury seeming nothing more than a bruise. But a short time after arriving at home he became worse and died.
A coroner’s jury found that death was caused by the blow and ordered the dead boy’s playmate held, with privilege of small bond.
From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Monday, Nov. 16, 1925
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