Arch Wagoner, notorious liquor maker and vendor who has given the authorities much trouble and who was captured last week after engaging in a fight from which he emerged the vanquished, will recover from the wounds inflicted by Shell Thompson, the other party in the fight. A buggy shaft was used as the instrument with which Wagoner was laid low and when brought to the court house his head, on the left side, was laid open almost by the blows he had received on his head. The wounds required a large number of stitches. He will go on trial to answer to the charge of criminal assault of a young girl in the next term of superior court and if found guilty, he will face the electric chair.
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Rip Van Winkle has been modernized in a case that has come to light here, differing only in the respect that the 20 years is not yet up and the husband has not returned. It was all brought to light through the filing of papers by Mrs. Lena Brooks for a divorce from her husband, J.T. Brooks. According to the complaint, Brooks, a husband devoted to his wife and home, on November 10, 1909, ate of his mid-day meal as was his usual custom, departed for his office to attend to his work. During the afternoon he called Mrs. Brooks over the telephone telling her that he wouldn’t be home for supper until about ?? o’clock and it got cold. Since that time the wife has neither seen nor heard from her husband and ?? she is tired of waiting for him for about 12 ½ years of patient watching and waiting. The complaint stated that the husband was a faithful, devoted husband he never abused, threatened or harshly treated her and that he contributed liberally to their support. When he wakes up, if he does, he will find his status slightly changed.
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James Culligan and Hesro Barbour, two young white men of Durham, are being held in the county jail without bail on charges of first degree burglary. The arrest followed their attempt upon property of Mae Ames following an alleged forcible entrance into the woman’s room in a local hotel.
According to the woman’s story, she was asleep in her room when she was awakened by a noise made by the young men who had entered the room. When she came to consciousness she saw one of them going through her suitcase. The other tried to prevent her from giving the alarm by choking her, it was alleged. Her cries were heard, however, by a woman occupying an adjoining room and she came to Miss Ames’ assistance, whereupon the men made their escape.
They were captured the next morning by officers and lodged in jail.
From the Greensboro Daily News, July 10, 1922
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