THE FLAGLER TRIBUNE
Bunnell, Florida
Thursday, April 23, 1931

 

Clarence Brooks, negro, was stabbed by another negro, Chester Kelly, Sunday afternoon on the farm of Mr. T. J. Cobb in the Bimini community, it was learned Monday from W. Lee Bartlett, justice of the peace, who conducted an inquest over the body of the dead negro. The stabbed negro died before reaching a doctor here where he was brought soon after the affray. Kelly has not been apprehended, Mr. Bartlett said.

Mr. Cobb stated to The Tribune that he had just finished paying off his negro employees Saturday afternoon when he saw Brooks and Kelly hanging around. And having had to stop the same two from fighting last year, he discharged them and did no employ them this year. He also said that he ordered the two off the place Saturday afternoon but they had returned to one of the tenant houses during Saturday night or Sunday. Both of the negroes were professional gamblers, Mr. Cobb said.

The coroner’s jury returned a verdict stating that “Clarence Brooks came to his death by being stabbed by Chester Kelly.”