Asheville, May 2? (AP)—The victim of an attack by several negroes, J. Wesley Banks, 44 years old, conductor on the Southern Railway, died here early this morning of spinal meningitis resulting from a fractured skull. Although the fight occurred Monday night, Banks was released from a local hospital shortly after he entered, as it was thought his injuries were slight. He returned to the hospital Wednesday night and physicians learned spinal meningitis had developed.
Banks and a friend, Carl Pinner, were walking along a street, it was alleged, when an automobile containing five negroes drove on to the sidewalk. Ranks ordered them to back off, but they refused. Words let to blows, and Pinner entered the fray. One of the negroes is said to have struck Banks on the head with a rock. Pinner was slightly injured.
All five of the negroes, one of whom is only 15 years old, are being held without bond in the city jail and will be turned over to the Superior Court following the coroner’s inquest.
From the front page of The Concord Daily Tribune, May 28, 1926
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