Kinston, June 26—L.J. Merritt of Mount Olive, N.C., and J.R. Griffin are in the city jail here, where the former must answer to a charge of driving a car while intoxicated, and the latter may be charged with drunkenness.
Their arrest came about when they crashed into the Sedan belonging to Dr. C.F. West, and which was parked in front of the Doctor’s home on Vernon avenue. The two men, in a Hudson car, were traveling sufficiently fast so that when the collided with the doctor’s car they knocked it nearly half a block, where it came to a stop only after collision with a tree. Fortunately, no one was in the car at the time.
Griffin was slightly injured as a result of the impact. Both men were shortly taken in custody, and are now incarcerated in the city jail.
From page 9 of the Goldsboro News, Sunday, June 27, 1926
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