Deputy Sheriff Carroll Tolbert Runs Away With Young Girl, Leaves Wife, 7 Children Behind, Oct. 25, 1920

Lenoir, Oct. 23--Carroll Tolbert, deputy sheriff at Colletsville, who, it is alleged ran away with a young girl, has not yet been apprehended. Tolbert left his family, a wife and seven children, one child being only about three weeks old, two weeks ago. There is as yoet no clue as to the whereabout of the runaway couple except that Tolbert's key ring and keys were found in Shelby, where it is thught that they have fled to South Carolina. The affair did not become known until a few days ago. It has caused much surprise. Tolbert was one of the most efficient officers in the county and was a man who was generally given the very best sort of character and reputation. (From the front page of the Hickory Daily Record, Oct. 25, 1920)