Manor, Jessup Given Five Years for Stealing Ford, Jan. 20, 1921

Rockingham, Jan. 15—Arch Manor and Dennis Jessup of Fayetteville were this afternoon sentenced by Judge J. Bis Ray to five years in the penitentiary. Their attorneys gave notice of appeal, the bond being place at $2,000 each.

These two young white men were convicted in superior court here Friday of stealing a Ford coupe from H.H. Anderson of Hamlet on Sunday night before Christmas. Jessup is the manager of the Fayetteville Motor Service company, of which his father is owner, and Arch Manor has been in his employ for the past two years. The two men, with Dewey Shaw, went to Hamlet on the day in question and that night Manor took the car from in front of the Hamlet opera house and drove it to Fayetteville, the other two young men going in their own Lexington.

The car was found two days later by Chief Braswell in the Jessup shop at Fayetteville, partially dismantled. The defense contended that the whole matter was a mistake, that Manor thought the car was owned by his brother-in-law and which he said he was authorized to take to Fayetteville and sell. The jury decided otherwise and found him guilty and Jessup as a party to the theft. The judge gave each five years in the penitentiary.

(From The Mount Airy News, Jan. 20, 1921)