Charles Parks, alias Charles Sadler, negro, who formerly lived in Paw Creek township, was palced in Mecklenburg county jail Sunday for arraignment at the next term of criminal court for a murder that he is alleged to have committed 20 years ago. Deputy Sheriff Mode Hunter went to Washington, D.C., for him with requisition papers and brought him back. The defendant stoutly maintains he is not guilty and that he knows nothing of any occurrence that could have connected him with a suspicion of murder. It is alleged he killed a negro named Tobe Cousar.
Parks has been living in the national capital 20 years and has been a jitney driver there for some years. The sheriff’s office here was tipped off several weeks ago that the defendant was being held there on a charge of having assaulted his wife. The Washington police told that a chance remark of his wife made in connection with his alleged assault on her led to the belief that he had killed a man in Mecklenburg county many years ago. Investigation of records at the sheriff’s office here revealed that a negro named Parks was wanted for an alleged murder.
From The Charlotte News, Monday, Aug. 15, 1921
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