Monroe, March 7—With his skull crushed, his nose mashed in, his jawbone broken and a hole in his right side, J. Quincy Derrick, of this city, was carried to the Ellen Fitzgerald Hospital last night as the result of an automobile wreck on highway number 20, four miles west of Monroe. The car left the road and hit a phone pole, demolishing both the pole and the car. In the car with Derrick was Ed Helms, of North Monroe. Both were drunk and Helms states that he does not know which of them was driving at the time of the accident. Helms was placed in jail, but was out today having made bond in the sum of $5,000. Both Derrick and Helms are about 30 years old, are ex-service men, and are married. Helms has children and Derrick has one.
From the front page of The Concord Times, Monday, March 8, 1926
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