Sam Corns, a young farmer of the Smithtown section, was dangerously cut with a knife by Jim Smith of the same section. Tuesday evening of this week, several gashes being made on Corns’ neck, head and body.
Citizens here today from the Smithtown community stated that Corns, Smith and Megs Campbell were enroute home from a trip to Greensboro, where Smith had a case in federal court and that the trouble occurred on the road near Sandy Ridge. It was further stated that the men were drinking, and that it was not know just how the fight started, though it was thought to have been brought about over a dispute in regards to who should pay the expense of the trip to Greensboro.
Corns bled profusely before his wounds were dressed by Dr. L.M. Ellington. [The rest of the paragraph is unreadable.]
From page 2 of the Danbury Reporter, Wednesday, June 9, 1926
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