Monday, January 13, 2020

News From Court Cases, Jan. 12 and 13, 1920

From The Daily Times, Wilson, N.C., Monday, January 12, 1920

Mayor’s Court

Lottie Barnes was charged $29.25 for an assault on William Blow and Blow was also charged the same amount for administering blows on Lottie, which Lottie objected to letting his place.

William Sherman, Ernest Haskins and George Harris, colored, preferred to play skin game yesterday rather than go to church and hear preaching, and as a result it cost them $925 each.

Mack Swindell was charged $14.25 for being drunk and disorderly.

Harvey Lamm was charged $9.25 for being drunk on the street.

Mose Summerlin was charged $4.25 for being drunk on the street.

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From the front page of The Daily Times, Wilson, N.C., Monday, January 12, 1920

Godly Dies Next Friday

Raleigh, Jan. 12—Churchill Godley, under death sentence for an alleged attack on a little girl near Smithfield, in Johnson county, will die in the electric chair. Governor Bickett refused to commute the sentence to life imprisonment but did give a stay of sentence from December 16th, when he was first sentenced to die in order to give the counsel of Godley and his friends an opportunity to examine his sanity.

An alienist who examined him as to his mental condition found that neither now or before the crime was committed was Godley suffering from mental derangement of any sort.

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From the front page of The Daily Times, Wilson, N.C., Monday, January 12, 1920

Money Rolling In For Socialists

New York, Jan. 12—Money to aid in the defense of the five Socialists who have been suspended by the State Assembly, continued to flow into the Socialist party here. Some of the checks are from both Democrats and Republicans. It is understood that the Socialists will undertake to retain Charles E. Hughes, who plead the cause of the socialists’ delegates urging that they be seated in the New York Assembly to which they were elected, before the Judiciary committee of the Assembly last Wednesday.

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From The Daily Times, Wilson, N.C., Monday, January 12, 1920

Two Negro Women Fighting

Minnie Dance and Hattie Chatam were arrested this morning for fighting and throwing bricks. They were placed in the lockup.


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From The Daily Times, Wilson, N.C., Tuesday, January 13, 1920

Only Two Cases

There were only two cases before Mayor Hill this morning, that of Hattie Chatman and Minnie Banks, who were charged 22 cents each for fighting.

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From The Daily Times, Wilson, N.C., Tuesday, January 13, 1920

Tried for Arson

Mr. O.P. Dickinson was in Smithfield today where he had a case before the recorder in that city in defense of a negro named Alex Richardson, who is charged with arson for the burning of a barn on the land of J.A. Vinson. The negro was bound over to curt in the sum of $200.

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From The Daily Times, Wilson, N.C., Tuesday, January 13, 1920

Mack Swindell Colored

In the Mayor’s court yesterday occurred the name of Mack Swindell, but it happened to be a colored man and not our friend the painter, who is not a habitue of the mayor’s court.

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