Individual Details

Death

A divine edict consummated a sentence imposed in City Police Court today when John Arthur Furr, 47-year-old disabled veteran of World War I, who was ordered to get out of town by noon, walked from the court room up E. 4th St., and dropped dead near the 4th St. underpass, Furr, whose address was listed on the warrant as Paw Creek, was arrested at 7:45 P. M. last night on a charge of drunkenness and of destroying the telephone in the P. & N. Railway Station. He spent the night in jail and was tried this morning, when he testified that he had been gassed in the first World War, that he was in need of medical attention, and that he was trying to get to Concord. He asked that he be allowed to leave town and Judge David J. Craig Jr. acquiesced in his request, giving him a 30-day sentence, suspended on condition that he leave town by noon today. He was found not guilty of the charge of destroying property. Walking up E. 4th St., he met his wife, who told officers that she had spent last night at the Salvation Army Home. He told her he was feeling ill and she led him off the street just west of the underpass and they sat down on the grass. He fell back and his wife called for help. Police came and an ambulance was summoned. He was pronounced dead on arrival at Memorial Hospital.
The Charlotte News, Charlotte, North Carolina, November 30, 1943