An unusually heavy docket faced Judge Guy Elliott in Recorders Court Monday. Among other cases were seven or eight men charged with aiding and abetting in prostitution. These were taken in raids made on the alleged houses of ill-repute in South Kinston. Seven were rounded up Saturday night and one submitted who had been arrested some weeks ago.
For several weeks the police have been making raids on the segregated district with instructions to make cases against everybody found, both men and women, and it is said the double-action plan has been working very successfully.
Monday morning, Tom Askew who was found in the district the latter part of July and who has since been out of town, submitted to the charge and judgment was suspended upon payment of costs. In Saturday night’s raid the seven taken were: Charley Smith, Haywood Joyner, Ed. Turner, Fountain Fletcher, T.E. Thaxton, J.L. Waller, and F.A. Phillips. The first named four submitted to the charge and judgment was suspended in their cases upon payment of costs. Thaxton, Waller and Phillips’ cases were postponed until next Monday’s session of court. Smith was found in the house of Irene Wells, Joyner and Phillips in Louise Walker’s house; Thaxton and Waller in Anna Belle Clarke’s house, and Fletcher in Rebecca Trice’s house with a woman named Essie Hall. Cases were made out against all the women also.
From the front page of The Kinston Free Press, Wednesday, Aug. 23, 1922
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