Stranger Fleeces
Greek
George Christ, Greek café proprietor here, is anxious to
place his hands upon a young man about 21 years old, wearing a blue serge suit,
gay shirt and tie, and soft black hat. A young man thusly described struck town
last Friday and engaged board at the café and rooms from the Greek over the
Hall garage. He came with only a suit-case. When Christ visited the room Monday
afternoon he found most of the effects gone—and the stranger, too. The man
smuggled a trunk upstairs, broke open the door between the room he occupied and
Christ’s room, and Monday morning stole nearly all the things portable, packing
them in the trunk, then hitting the grit on the 10 o’clock train for Charlotte.
Christ went to Charlotte Monday night hunting his boarder, but found him not.
And doubtless the Greek will hereafter closely scan every blue-suited stranger
he sees.
Tenth Blockade Still
Sheriff McDonald has cut the tenth notch on his blockade
still eradication stick.
On Thursday morning of last week he and deputies Reynolds
and Key found a small outfit hid in various parts of Rev. Jim Peter Covington’s
two-room house six miles from town, in Black Jack township. Evidently the still
was used for operation in doors. In a closet was found an empty barrel that is
thought to have held mash, and in the barn nearby was a barrel two-thirds full
of mash-beer.
Covington says the outfit does not belong to him; that it was
“left there” by a stranger. At any rate, the Sheriff required him to furnish a
$300 bond and will give him the opportunity of explaining the matter before
Squire Guthrie Friday morning at 10 o’clock.
Mayor’s Court
Cases before Mayor McNair the past week:
Sandy Johnson submits Monday night to being drunk Saturday
and is taxed with costs, amounting to $1.95.
George Penfield and George Best engaged in an affray in the
barber shop of Leak & Jackson Saturday night. The Mayor hear the matter
Monday night and fined each $10 and costs. They also were required to reimburse
the barber shop for broken plate glass and for a half gallon of hair tonic
broken in the scuffle.
Recorder’s Court,
Hamlet
A colored man, J.J. Rutley, plead guilty before Recorder
Austin at Hamlet Thursday morning to stealing a watch early in January form a
porter at the Terminal hotel. The sentence is that he shall serve “time” on the
roads for 12 months, and he was carried to the chain gang near Osborne today.
A white woman whose home is near Hamlet, named Rosa Woodard,
was brought to jail here Wednesday night about midnight by policeman Miller,
and is now lodged therein to await a hearing before Recorder Austin, probably
Friday or Saturday.
Seduction,
Abandonment Cases Before Squire Guthrie
Monroe Dawkins was arrested at McPherson’s saw-mill this
morning on a warrant charging seduction, and is under $200 bond for his appearance
at a preliminary hearing before Squire Guthrie March 4 at 10 a.m.
Fred Grooms will be given a hearing March 1st at
10 a.m., charged with abandonment. He lives near Osborn and was arrested Feb. 8th
and lodged in jail in default of bond. His father raised the $200 bond later
and he was released last Sunday to await preliminary hearing.
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Prisoners Escape
Two colored prisoners made their escape from the State
penitentiary Monday morning. They are Jesse Bowden, serving a 30-year term for
criminal assault near Newbern, and Albert Nixon, convicted at January term of
Richmond county court for stealing $5,000 from Southern Express Co., and sent
to the pen for 10 years. The two were working in a squad of other convicts and
day laborers at the new site for the State School for the Blind, near the pen,
in Raleigh, and about 10 o’clock the guards missed the two convicts.
Investigation showed in the basement of the building their convict clothes.
Some of the day laborers had evidently smuggled civilian clothes to them and
they had changed in the basement and apparently as civilians had easily walked
by the guards to freedom. They have not as yet been apprehended.
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