This editorial questioning the police powers of Alcoholic Beverage Control employees reveals the death of an unnamed black Wilson County man who jumped into the Tar River to escape arrest in Nash County. His body was not recovered for nearly three months.

Greensboro (N.C.) Daily Record, 16 April 1936.

A search of death certificates reveals that the decedent was Freeman Tump Leach. Leach was born 21 April 1902 in Rowland, North Carolina, to Jack Leach and Nellie Johnson; died 21 January 1936 in Cooper township, Nash County; lived at 900 Elvie Street; was married; worked as a railroad worker for Norfolk Southern Railroad; died “by falling in Tar River accidentally drowning”; and was buried in Wilson [probably, Vick Cemetery.] Jessie Leach was informant.

Wilson Daily Times, 24 January 1936.