On Thursday night of last week Mr. Claude Gore forgot to put
his Ford Sedan up and left it on the street in front of his house. About 2
o’clock someone in passing noticed that a person was in the car trying to start
it. The party went to Alfred Barrett, told him what he had seen, and Mr.
Barrett secured the night officer and the two went to the car and arrested a
14-year-old colored boy, Billy Morrison. Billy had been making repeated efforts
to get the car started. The lad is now in jail awaiting disposition of his case
by the Juvenile Court. The boy lives at Hamlet and has been in trouble several
times, the last time for stealing a mule and buggy; for this he was hired out
to Mr. Capel but ran away before the term of sentence had expired. He seems to
be an incorrigible boy and the best place for him is a reformatory.
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