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Saturday, February 25, 2023

Robert Chavis, Cromwell McClure Sentenced to Labor on County Roads, Feb. 25, 1923

Tried Three Times to Steal One Shirt

After three unsuccessful efforts, Robert Chavis, a negro, finally succeeded in stealing a shirt valued at $1 from the Grant Store here. The clerk in the store made only one effort to catch Chavis, and Judge Harris sent him out to the county roads for four months.

If Cromwell McClure had gone to work when he reached Durham after running away from Raleigh and after cutting John Love across the jaw, he would probably have saved himself six months of labor on the county roads. McClure didn’t like to work; hung around the Durham Depot, and got himself arrested on a charge of vagrancy. Raleigh police heard about it and asked the Durham authorities to let them “work on” Cromwell. Judge Harris did.

From page 24 of the Raleigh News & Observer, Sunday, Feb. 25, 1923

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