Beverly Cloninger and “Dad” Marshall, two white men, are being tried in Superior Court before Judge W.F. Harding on charges of highway robbery. Their case was called Tuesday morning and the attorneys in the case began their arguments to the jury at 2:30 o’clock. B.N. Boys and Uhlman S. Alexander are attorneys for the defendants.
The defendants were arrested some weeks ago on the western part of the county on the Southern Railway, where they held up an old negro who was cutting wood in the forest. The men are taken to be hoboes. The younger man, Cloninger, had on a soldier’s uniform.
The warrants were changed to forceable trespass from larceny in the case of Oscar White, Cliff Robinson and Robert Lindsay, negroes, who were accused of stealing goods form the Carolina Sporting Goods company and the Myers Hardware company. The two defendants were employed at the respective companies mentioned. Judgment of the court was that they pay the costs in the case.
From the Charlotte News, May 17, 1921
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