Durham, June 5—Robert Steele, 35, hosiery mill worker who was brutally beaten in the face with a baseball bat nearly three weeks ago when he attempted to defend his wife form the assault of three drunken men, died in a hospital here early tonight.
Police are holding Everett Hardey of Hillsboro and his brother, Joe, in connection with the affair. With the bones of his nose, cheeks and forehead shattered by blows from the heavy club, Steele was near death since the crime on Sunday, May 23.
From the front page of The Goldsboro News, Tuesday, June 8, 1926
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