Salisbury, April 18—John Koontz, night watchman at the Salisbury mills, is at his home on North Main street suffering from a fractured skull, the seriousness of the injury not being determined yet by attending physicians. He is apparently badly hurt.
Mr. Koontz was attacked in the mill while making his rounds last night, two men assaulting him with an iron pipe as he mounted a stairway. He was not rendered unconscious and sprang at his assailants securing the iron bar and striking one of the men a blow on the head. The men, however, ran and later in the night Officers Kester and Talbert arrested two men near town who admitted according to police that they were the ones who made the attack.
One of them has wound on the head which it is said he admits was made by Mr. Koontz. The men being held are Buren Moery and Sanford Eudy, young men of this place. It is thought robbery was the motive as Mr. Koontz usually carried a goodly sum of only on his person, Last night, however, he only had a few dollars and this amount was not secured by his assailants.
From page 3 of The Concord Daily Tribune, Monday, April 19, 1926
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