W.M. Jones, an automobile mechanic and proprietor of a repair shop on the corner of Road and Matthews street, has disappeared from the city, taking with him a Ford automobile belonging to A.W. Lane, taking with him also the Misses Elsie and Estelle Lamb, and leaving numerous bad checks and unpaid bills. He boarded at the Southern hotel with his wife and two children and leaves a hotel bill of nearly $100.
Jones disappeared from Elizabeth City one night last week and has been traced to Fayetteville, N.C. In fact, the Misses Lamb write to their mother in this city from Fayetteville, saying they were there on a visit to a friend in a hospital. But when the Fayetteville police were put on the case, Jones had departed and is believed to be somewhere in the vicinity of Charlotte. E.H. Spence, proprietor of the Southern hotel, is sure Jones will be apprehended and brought back to Elizabeth City if he doesn’t get in worse trouble elsewhere.
Before beating his board bill, stealing A.W. Lane’s Ford, deserting his wife and two children and taking two other women from town with him, Jones had cashed numerous worthless checks and left many bills unpaid. Geo. C. Culpepper, one of the innocent victims, figures that he is out $175 in cash and is still on an appearance bond of $50 for Jones in the Superior court.
From the Elizabeth City Independent, as reprinted on the front page of The Enterprise, Williamston, N.C., Monday, Sept. 27, 1921
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