Rutherfordton, Sept. 4—Jennings Harris is dead and Robert Neighbors is in the Rutherford hospital seriously injured as a result of an automobile accident at Spindale today about noon. Neighbors was driving. They were in a Studebaker touring car. It is reported that they crossed the railroad going more than 60 miles per hour. The Studebaker turned over three times and was badly damaged. Fast driving is the only known cause of the wreck.
The injured men were rushed to the hospital and Harris died soon after reaching there. Only two men were in the car. They were en route from Charlotte to Asheville where Harris was to enter Oteen hospital. He was an ex-soldier of the world war and had taken treatment in Atlanta, Oteen and other government hospitals since the war. He was 24 years of age, single and the son of J. L. Harris of Cliffside. The family moved to this county from South Carolina about six months ago.
From page 3 of the Concord Daily Tribune, Monday, Sept. 6, 1926
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