Dennis Newkirk, a negro employed by the Virginia Box Company at their plant just South of the city, was shot and probably fatally wounded by an unknown member of his race late yesterday afternoon and at an early hour this morning was barely holding his own at the Goldsboro hospital, where he was taken for an operation.
According to statements made to the police by witnesses of the shooting, Newkirk and several other negroes had completed their work for the day and were on their way home when the negro who did the shooting asked Newkirk to let him see his gun. This, Newkirk is said to have declined to do. The other black, backing off a few feet, drew his own weapon, opened fire on Newkirk and the latter fell. He then proceeded to take his victim’s revolver from him and left for parts unknown.
Police said last night that they had no clue as to the identify of the gunman. The bullet entered Newkirk’s right breast and ploughed its way through to the opposite side.
From page 5 of The Goldsboro News, July 4, 1926
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