Lee Richard Wright and Guy C. Roberts, soldiers of battalion A, 5th field artillery, Cape Bragg, were arrested on the Fayetteville highway just outside of Dunn Sunday night by U.S. Page and W.F. Nipper of the local police force. They are still in the police station here, being held for payment of a fine imposed by Judge Smith of the Recorder’s court for carrying a concealed weapon. It will take $50 plust cost, for each of them, which they may pay n preference to a six-months sentence on the roads. When they get out of the local courts they will be carried to Fayetteville where they are charged with highway robbery and the theft of an automobile.
It is alleged that they hired L.W. Kunnery, a jitney driver of Fayetteville, to take them for a ride Sunday night. The two men were accompanied by a woman. After driving three or more miles into the country they ordered the driver to stop his car and they got out. After a few minutes wait, during which time the two men and the woman absented themselves form the car, one of the men approached the driver and ordered him to hold up his hands. When a pistol was thrown in his face he immediately obeyed. The other man then proceeded to rob him of all the valuables he had, including his money. When this was done they got into the car and demanded that the owner crank them off, and they speeded away, leaving Mr. Nummery and the woman alone in the road. They immediately returned to Fayetteville and reported the case to the police authorities, who phoned to officers in neighboring towns to look out for the men with the car. They were arrested here a few minutes later.
The Fayetteville authorities were notified of their arrest. The owner of the car came to town Monday to claim his property. As soon as their case for carrying a concealed weapon is settled here they will be turned over to the Cumberland county officials.
From the front page of the Dunn Dispatch, March 8, 1921. (A jitney driver was a taxi driver.)
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