Back in his old cell in the county jail, Scott Dillingham is still smiling the same old smile, and assuring is friends he will soon be out again.
Dillingham was arrested at 10 o’clock yesterday morning by members of the sheriff’s department on a warrant charging larceny brought from Greenville, S.C., by Sheriff Rector of that county.
The charge is brought as the outgrowth of an old case, reported settled. Dillingham was at work in his place of business at 63 Biltmore Avenue, where he is manager of the Asheville Auto exchange, where the papers were served.
With the warrant requisition and extradition papers were served, signed by the governors of the two Carolinas. In a fight against extradition Dillingham has through counsel instituted habeas corpus proceedings.
Habeas Corpus Hearing Set for Today
Hearing of the proceedings will be before Judge Thomas J. Shaw, presiding over Buncombe Superior Court at 3 o’clock this afternoon. Representing Dillingham will be the firm of Reynolds and Reynolds, Judge Thomas A. Jones, and Judge Philip C. Cocks.
For the plaintiffs in the bringing of the warrant Sheriff Rector has engaged Attorney Mark W. Brown.
Concerning his present position Dillingham said last night, when interviewed at the jail by a representative of The Citizen:
‘This case is the result of a civil suit brought jointly against myself and W.M. Jackson by a Greenville partnership. The charged I got a Ford touring car from them and did not pay them. The value of the car was fixed at $262.50. On my return to Asheville, when I began straightening up my affairs to start all over again, I settled with P.C. Perkins, one of the partners, by paying him $450. I have is receipt.
“The charge then pending against me in Greenville was not prossed by the solicitor there, and the solicitor’s signed non-suit is now on file in the office of Sheriff Lyerly.
“Now A.J. Carpenter, the partner of Perkins, comes forward and says Perkins did not have the right to settle, and that he (Carpenter) is not satisfied with his share. Carpenter is asking for $800 in settlement for his claim, and started these proceedings.
“A am sure everything will be straightened out this afternoon and that I will be allowed to make bond and get out to settle this matter which I have already done.”
From The Asheville Citizen as reprinted on the front page of The News-Record, Marshall, Madison County, N.C., Friday, March 24, 1922. The Madison County Record was established in 1901 and the French Broad News in 1907; the two newspapers consolidated in 1911.
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