Lewis Long, white, wanted in this county for bootlegging and who forfeited a $1,500 bond a few weeks ago just before his case was to be called in Superior Court, is under arrest in Danville, Va., and will be brought back to Charlotte. He will come back for trial without requisition papers.
Sheriff W.O. Cochran received a telegram at 4 o’clock Saturday afternoon from Chief of Police J. Ribell of Danville, announcing that Long was in his custody and would come back without the formality of requisition. Sheriff Cochran sent an officer to Danville Saturday to bring Long back to Charlotte. It is expected that he will be arraigned in Superior Court here this week on the charge which he was to face when he ran away.
Long surrendered here some months ago, shortly after a warrant had been issued charging him with attempting to deliver several quarts of bottled in bond liquor at the home of a prominent citizen on East Morehead street. Officers Moser and West of the city detective force, fired upon him when he failed to stop at their demand. Dewey Robinson, a young man in the car with Long at the time, also surrendered and was tried before the recorder. Long was convicted of the charge of selling liquor and was sentenced to the roads for eight months. Dewey Robinson was fined $300 and the costs.
When Superior Court was convened shortly afterward and Long was expected to appear, after appealing from the recorder’s verdict, he failed to show up and rumor had it that he had gone to Canada.
Several days ago there was a widely circulated rumor that he had never gone to Canada, but that he had gone to Savannah and that a car containing 480 quarts of liquor, bound for Charlotte and supposed to have been his car was picked up by Georgia authorities. This rumor was never confirmed and it is supposed now the story was untrue.
It is presumed, although the telegram from the chief of police at Danville did not say so, that Long was captured in Danville and that he did not surrender. If this is true, the chief or whoever made the arrest will receive the $200 reward which the Board of County commissioners offered for his arrest.
The commissioners made a blanket ruling that, whenever any man charged with selling liquor forfeited a bond as high as $1,000 a reward would be given for his apprehension. Joe Mosteller and A.D. Vanderberg, two other well-known white men who forfeited bonds on recent charges of violating the law rather than come to court, are also at large and their apprehension will be regarded under the regulation made by the commissioners.
From the Charlotte News, Sunday, Dec. 4, 1921.
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