Fines and suspended sentences for bootleggers and moonshiners seem likely to become things of the past in the Pasquotank County recorder’s court. Three months on the roads were the sentences imposed by Trial Justice Spence Monday upon two white men who, when arrested for being drunk and disorderly, were found to have whiskey on them. The two men were Frank Reichleu and Leonard Armstrong, who when they appealed were required to give bond in the sum of $200 for appearance in Superior Court.
Reichleu and Armstrong were arrested on Parsonage Street and when they were taken in charge by the police officer, according to the evidence, threw three bottles of liquor out into the street.
Edward Daniels, colored, who claimed to have “found” a bottle of liquor under a tree by the railroad track, was sentenced to 30 days on the roads for receiving and possession.
Ed Gray, colored, for possession was given three months on the roads.
Fannie Rodgers, convicted by a jury for transporting, got off with a fine of $509 and costs. Gus Rodgers, who says he went with Fannie to the home of Tom Pritchard, Pasquotank dairyman, to bring back liquor she bought from Mr. Pritchard, was required to pay $75, though it was largely on his evidence that Fannie was convicted. However, in view of Gus’s plea of guilty and finally admitting where he got the liquor, a sentence of three months on the roads, imposed when the case first came up for trial, was remitted.
From the front page of The Daily Advance, Elizabeth City, N.C., May 7, 1923
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