Frank Johnson and John McKenzie, white boys 16 to 17 years of age, were bound over to superior court by Recorder J.L. Jones Saturday morning on charges of entering Belk’s store and stealing goods valued at nearly $300. Johnson’s bond of $100 was posted while McKenzie was remanded to jail in default of a $500 bond. Charles Alexander was sent on to superior court under a $500 bond on the charge of receiving stolen goods.
The boys admitted entering the store and taking a quantity of watches, fountain pens, jewelry and the like, saying they turned them over to Alexander for disposal. Most of the stuff was recovered. The McKenzie boy escaped to South Carolina, where he was arrested Thursday.
Other Cases
A 60-day jail sentence was imposed on John Self, and Ed Sanders was fined $25 on a charge of affray with deadly weapons. The pair are negroes, both giving bodily evidence of combat. Sanders had his head bound up and testified that Self hit him with a rock and an iron bar and slashed him with a knife. Self displayed two cuts as his witness to the conflict. Self, through H.R. McAuley, his attorney, appealed the decision and bond was fixed at $200, in default of which he was jailed.
Minnie Wilson, negro, was sentenced to 30 days in jail and the cost of action was placed upon Annie Sanders, negro, for an affray. Mamie Bomar was found not guilty of participation in the affair.
Geneva Wyatt and Rob Sanders paid $5 and costs each for imbibing too freely. The case of Frank Honeycutt, arrested on a similar charge, was transferred to Magistrate S.S. Stokes for trial.
From the Charlotte Observer, Oct. 22, 1922
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