Given Keys to Fetch Tire, He Takes the Car, April 30, 1926

Negro Given Keys to Fetch Tire; Takes Car Instead

Kinston, April 30—Ben Worthington, a negro, is awaiting a hearing in Superior Court here, on a charge of larceny of an automobile.

H.H. Proctor, salesman for a tailoring concern at New York, “picked up” Worthington at a point between 25 and 30 miles from here. Arriving in Kinston, the salesman entered a filling station, followed by Worthington. Proctor gave the negro the keys to the automobile and requested him to fetch the spare tire off the car. Worthington did not return, and Proctor went out to find the negro and the car gone.

The salesman found the negro in the car later. An altercation followed, and Proctor struck the black with a bottle. Worthington was arrested and held in $500 bail.

From page 2 of The Goldsboro News, Saturday, May 1, 1926

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