Wilson, June 30—Returning from Elm city late Tuesday night, Jack Applewhite, local youth, noticed a woman lying in the middle of the road, about a mile from this city, in a semi-conscious condition and picked her up and turned her over to the local police.
The woman, Mrs. Mary Davis, 17-year-old Fayetteville girl, told the officers a hideous tale of being taken on a wild ride by two men and a woman and of being mistreated and badly beaten. Medical attention was administered and the girl held pending an investigation into her story.
The investigation this morning resulted in the arrest of Paul Etherridge, Ben Barnes and Mrs. Pegram, said to be a sister of the beaten girl. Etheridge, held under the charges of assault on Mrs. Davis, was freed this afternoon under $3,000 bond, while Mrs. Pegram, held on charges of assault and accessory before and after the fact, and Barnes, charged with assault, are lodged in jail. The Davis woman is also detained.
From page 4 of The Concord Daily Tribune, July 1, 1926
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