Monday, August 9, 2021

It Was the Wrong Henry Knight, Aug. 9, 1921

Jail Attendant Not Fined for Gambling. . . Henry Knight was Quieting Insane Prisoner When Alleged “Skin” Artists Were Taken

The Henry Knight fined in Mayor’s Court Monday morning for gambling was not the Henry Knight who attends the county jail here.

The negro caught in the “skin” raid was Harry Knight.

In fact, Henry Knight claims that at the time the alleged gamblers were taken in a raid, he was very busy at the jail quieting an insane man who had torn up the plumbing in his cell. Of this, Henry has undisputable proof: a swollen and bruised arm, with two long scars, which the crazy man inflicted when Henry entered his cell, after about $25 worth of toilet fixtures had been demolished.

The afflicted man is Robert Person, aged, 18, who lives just across the railroad on the Conetoe road. His father attends the Williams farm of the Elks-Williams Company.

Application has been made for the entrance of Person at the State Asylum, and the authorities are hopeful that same will be accepted.

Edgecombe has another patient, a woman, awaiting permission to the state institution, though the county now has her full quota in, and the state has no room for additional entrants.

From The Tarboro Southerner, as reprinted on the front page of The Commonwealth, Scotland Neck, N.C., Tuesday, August 9, 1921

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