Rocky Mount, April 30—W.S. (Dick) Taylor is dead, Leslie Jackson is slightly injured and Joe O’Neill, local youth is being held by police on a charge of manslaughter as a result of a fatal accident on the Tarboro highway at the edge of the city shortly after 9 o’clock last night.
The mishap, according to O’Neill, occurred as he, Taylor and Jackso were returning to the city in a Ford roadster of the semi-truck type. They were riding along the Tarboro highway near this city with no lights on the car, when they struck the wheel of an oncoming buggy and the Ford weas sent off the road and turned over. Jackson jumped almost clear of the car but Taylor and O’Neill were still in the car when it came to rest. Taylor’s injuries consisted of a fractured skull and probable internal hurts, proved fatal several hours after being brought to a local hospital while O’Neill miraculously escaped injury.
The party had started to Tarboro, but turned around and were returning to Rocky Mount because the lights on the car had gone bad, O’Neill states.
Taylor who was in his late twenties, is survived by his widow and four children. Funeral services are to be held tomorrow afternoon at 4 o’clock from the home on Long street. Interment will follow at Pine View Cemetery.
In connection with the manslaughter charge against O’Neill, preliminary hearing on which is planned for Monday, the youth is charged with operating an automobile while under the influence of whiskey and with operating a vehicle without lights and without proper state or city license.
From the front page of The Goldsboro News, Saturday, May 1, 1926
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