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Police Catch Albert Henderson Selling Liquor to A.B. Robertson; Find $3,000 in Henderson's Home, May 22, 1922

Officers Searching for Liquor Find $3,000 in Trunk

Searching for liquor and finding a rainbow pot of gold was the experience of police detectives raiding the home of Albert Henderson on Middle street last Saturday night, says the Charlotte News.

More than $3,000 was discovered in a trunk in the Henderson home.

Detective West was searching the place during the raid when he ordered Henderson to open a dilapidated trunk covered with dust and trash in one corner of the room. When the lid was lifted, Detective West threw his flashlight into the trunk and said he saw the most money he had ever seen at one time in his life.

Asked if he was not afraid to have that much money, Henderson replied that he stayed in his house all the time and kept watch over his treasury.

As the officers entered the house Saturday night they found Henderson making a sale of whiskey to A.B. Robertson, white man who confessed to the detectives that he had gotten the liquor from Henderson. Robertson was slipping a soft drink bottle into the front of his shirt when officers put in their appearance. He had just bought it from Henderson, he said, paying a dollar for it.

Henderson was sentenced to four months on the road in police court Monday morning.

From the Lincoln County News, Lincolnton, N.C., May 22, 1922

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