A two-year road sentence for Vance Harris, white man convicted of selling whiskey, and the confession of Macon Myrick, suspected of robberies in all sections of Warren and in lower Virginia, featured the short term of May Superior Court which adjourned on Wednesday morning after a late start on Monday. Two divorces were granted in the civil docket.
The Harris case had been continued for months, due first to one cause and then to another. The State showed to the satisfaction of the jury that Harris was caught at a whiskey still, with incriminating evidence. The fact that he had previously been on the roads in Vance County on a similar charge was introduced. W.P. Pearey, caught at the still with Harris, was not found guilty of manufacturing and escaped the pick and shovel sentence which Judge Oliver H. Allen handed to Harris after sermonizing upon the general condition of the country and pleaing for more law observance and a return to religious conduct.
Macon Myrick, who was suspected of robbing the S.J. Stallings store in Littleton, the Warrenton Depot, the E.B. Stallings store at Macon, several country stores in Virginia and who had been packing a gun and living a fugitive from justice for many months, did not offer fight in the Court room Myrick was captured in Virginiaon last Thursday night by Chief E.L. Green at the home of a friend. The arrest followed an offer of a $50 reward by the County Commissioners, some detective work by Chief Green, and a telephone message from a Virginia officer, that Myrick had been spotted.
Three Virginia officers and T.H. Robertson were with Chief Green when he surrounded the Myrick home. A search of the premises was unavailing until the boy’s mother unintentionally told where her son had gone. The surprise at the neighboring house was complete and the arrest sudden. He was brought to Warrenton and placed in jail on Thursday night where he remained until sentenced on Tuesday to three years in the State Prison.
A nol pros was entered in State against Arch Alston for carrying a deadly weapon.
Georgia Brown and Edward Brown dissolved the bonds of wedlock, and Bettie D. Nash and R.A. Nash were also granted a divorce.
The Grand Jury completed its duties on Tuesday afternoon with the submission of the following report through Foreman C.W. Perkinson:
“We have completed the duties assigned us by law and our respective oaths and beg leave to report the same and ask for a discharge.
“We have passed upon all bills sent to the Grand Jury and also brought to our attention by Hon. G.E. Midyette, Solicitor for this Judicial District.
“We have been excused from examination of the County Home, Jail &c. for this term of Court by your Honor.”
Members of the Grand Jury with Foreman Perkinson were R.P. Fleming, Maynard Paynter, C.L. Perkinson, George Allen, T.R. Evans, J.E. Wilson, B.D. Shearin, S.D. King, W.L. Taylor, Jack Bobbitt, Murphy Duke, G.E. White, W.S. Throckmorton, J.W. Pitchford, J.D. Newell Jr., E.L. Hayes and J.D. Odom.
R.L. Bell was appointed officer of the Grand Jury.
As the law requires, Hon. G.E. Midyette handed in his report to the Judge as follows: “I have examined the office of Clerk of Superior Court of Warren County and find it supplied with necessary books, papers and records, and in good condition—the same being well kept.”
From the front page of The News Reporter, Littleton, Halifax County, N.C., Saturday, May 27, 1922
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