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Alex Mitchell Under Bond of $1,000 For Stealing $53.20 From Silas Hagner, June 28, 1921

Highwayman Is Held Under Bond of $1,000

Charged with highway robbery Alex Mitchell, negro, was bound over to the superior court under a bond of $1,000 after probable cause had been found in the police court Tuesday morning by Judge Laurence Jones.

It was brought out that Mitchell had snatched a pocketbook containing $53.20 from Silas Hagner, a young man who had been in Charlotte only a few weeks. Officer Moser, brother-in-law of the young man, was notified and apprehension of the negro resulted.

A small negro boy was lying on a back porch near the scene of the robbery on Third street at the time, and testified against the negro. He declared he knew Mitchell, and, after relating what had happened, swore that Mitchell was the man had committed the crime.

From The Charlotte News, Tuesday, June 28, 1921

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