Monday, March 2, 2026

Ben Brooks Given 18 Months on the Roads for Shooting At Preacher During Service, March 2, 1926

Shoots at Preacher in Pulpit; 18 Months

Greensboro, March 1—Ben Brooks, negro, of this city, who plead guilty in Guilford Superior Court today to a charge of shooting at a negro preacher while the latter was exhorting form his pulpit here recently, was sentenced by Judge C.C. Lyon to serve 18 months on the county roads. Brooks said he was drunk.

From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Tuesday, March 2, 1926

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