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Saturday, June 19, 2021

James Wilson Gets 7 to 10-Year Sentence for Assaulting Charles Stewart and Robbing Piedmont Hotel, June 19, 1921

Hotel Thief Sent to Prison

James Wilson, the young white man who, with a companion, went into the Piedmont hotel at 5 o’clock one morning several weeks ago, assaulted Charles Stewart, the clerk on duty, and robbed the cash drawer of $36, was sentenced by Judge J.E. McElroy in superior court Saturday afternoon to serve an indeterminate sentence of from seven to ten years in the state penitentiary. The exact duration of his sentence will be dependent on his behavior as a prisoner. It will not be less than seven nor more than ten years.

Wilson did not go on the stand, his attorney, Hamilton C. Jones, offering no witnesses and introducing no testimony in rebuttal of that offered by the state. It is said Wilson is from Danville, Va. He was arrested at another Charlotte hotel on the morning of the robbery and an hour or two after the robbery occurred at the Piedmont. He had just registered but pretended to be asleep when police officers went to his room. He denied knowing anything about the matter.

From The Charlotte News, Sunday morning, June 19, 1921

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