Wilson, Dec. 3—With corroborative proof and their appearing no malicious prosecution, there is absolutely not the least chance for those who traffic in liquor when they are hauled before Mayor Killett. When violators are proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt he has in stock a line of sentences for both white and colored, male and female, and he feeds them out with the same spoon.
Robert Williams, colored, was arraigned before the mayor with three charges against him on the police blotter, vis: having whiskey on hand for the purpose of sale, for selling the stuff and for receiving more than the law allows every 15 days. On the first two counts he was sent to the roads for six months, and for receiving drew a fine of $50 the cost of the trial. He will take his medicine without appeal to a higher court.
From the front page of The Mount Airy News, Dec. 8, 1921
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