Mamie and Essie Harris, 15-year-old twin daughters of Mrs. Donnie Harris of this city, will be sent to Samarcand Manor and Lloyd and Charlie Crank, two young white men, will go to the roads for two years (unless they wriggle out of the county court sentence) as a result of an escapade which began at the McAdams’ revival tent Sunday night and ended up in the county court Wednesday morning. Charlie and Lloyd stole an automobile belonging to W.C. Riggs from in front of the McAdams tent Sunday night. The Cranks and the car disappeared and with them disappeared the Harris twins and Otis Bland and Lee Overman.
The car was found stuck in the mud near Weeksville Tuesday and the Cranks and the Harris twins were found in the house of a Negro couple on Rum Road just outside the city limits. Otis Bland turning state’s evidence, gave the whole thing away to begin with, and Charlie Crank in court wound up by confessing the theft of the car and giving a thrilling version of a night on muddy roads trying to get somewhere with the stolen car. It seems that the party got as far as Sunbury in Gates County before giving up and returning to Pasquotank. Bland and Overman were not prosecuted, it appearing that they fell into the party innocently upon representation that the Cranks and the Harrises were off to get married. It seems that they mated but did not wed. The Cranks appealed to Superior Court and their bonds were fixed at $500 each. They are now in jail while bondsmen are slow to come up.
Front page of The Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., Friday, March 10, 1922. Samarcand is a state reform school for wayward girls.
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