Monroe, Feb. 19—Holmes Morris, popular mechanic and automobile dealer of the firm of Morris and Small, of this city, is strangely missing, and it is thought that he has been murdered. Mr. Morris left Monroe last night at about 7 o’clock to see his mother, who is suffering with pneumonia and who lives about 10 miles from Monroe in the old Davis mine section. He was last seen at the home of his father-in-law, T.B. Price, in the same neighborhood.
He had left Monroe with the intention of remaining away all night, and not until 11 o’clock today when a message was phoned to the office of Sheriff Clifford Fowler that an automobile which indicated that its occupants had had misfortune, was standing on the Indian Trail and Waxhaw road near the old Davis mine. On investigation, the car was found to be that of Mr. Morris.
Into the car two pistol balls had been shot. One took effect in the rear of the body of the car, and the other pierced the glass in the door opposite where the driver was sitting. In the car was Mr. Morris’ hat, which had been cut from the top, both crown and brim, but which showed no stains of blood. Both pistol balls were recovered by the sheriff and his deputies, also the cartridges from which they shot were found lying near the car. There is much evidence of murder, but no trace of the body has been found. It was thought that if it was placed in a gold pit, many of which are in the woods nearby, but it is now believed that this is not the case, and that if a murder was committed, the body was hauled away.
Sheriff Fowler is requesting all hospitals to wire him in case they have received a patient which answered to the description of Morris, a man about 5 feet, 11 inches tall, weight 180 pounds, head somewhat bald. He is 28 years old and has a wife and two small children.
From the front page of The Concord Daily Tribune, Saturday, Feb. 20, 1926
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