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Sunday, July 4, 2021

Tom Reid's Luck Ran Out in Crap Game, July 4, 1921

Escaped Convict Caught In Raid

Tom Reid, negro convict, escaped from the Norton, Va., camps, was one of the half-dozen negroes captured in Brooklyn Sunday afternoon while engaged in a crap game. Reid, a Charlotte negro with a bad record, was sentenced to the chain gang camp from Washington, D.C., for pickbocketing.

Detectives D.B. Bradly, G.M. Riley, J.D. Johnson, Staten and Carl Johnson swooped down upon the crap-shooters while the dice were hitting seven and 'levens at a fast clip. Reid will be returned to Washington authorities where he will be tried for his escape from the camp.

From The Charlotte News, July 4, 1921

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