Raleigh, May 8—D.M. Freeman, state prison guard at the prison road camp at Almond in Swain county, was fatally injured Saturday when he jumped form a running automobile in an attempt to capture an escaped prisoner whom he saw near the road, state prison authorities here learned today.
The prisoner, George Perkins, negro, serving a sentence from Bertie county of from 1 to 9 ½ years for larceny, escaped Saturday. Freeman was one of the party of searchers. Seeing Perkins in the nearby woods, Freeman did not wait for the automobile to stop.
From page 2 of the Goldsboro News, Sunday, May 9, 1926
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