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Wednesday, December 11, 2019

Jewelry Thieves Sentenced in Raleigh, Dec. 11, 1919


From The Daily Times, Wilson, N.C., Dec. 11, 1919. To read about the theft, go to http://ruralnchistory.blogspot.com/2019/11/bell-boy-confesses-his-part-in-theft-of.html

Jewelry Thieves Sentenced

Raleigh, Dec. 11—Three years of hard labor for John Cooke, bellboy, two years of prison life for Richard Blacknall, and terms of 12 months each for James Horton and Hubert Pool, all negroes, was the punishment imposed yesterday by Judge Guion in superior court for the theft of a trunk of jewelry valued at $75,000 from the Yarborough hotel about three weeks ago. The four negroes pleaded guilty of larceny.

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