After pleading guilty of assault and battery with a deadly weapon, George B. Elliot, colored, on trial Tuesday in recorder’s court, was given a suspended judgment upon the payment of the costs and $500 to the use of J.W. Dowdee whose automobile was torn up last September at the intersection of Duke and Morgan streets. In the accident Mrs. Dowdee was badly injured and several children in the car considerably shaken up. It is declared that the negro was driving at a high rate of speed and did not stop after the crash.
Elliott paid the entire bill of costs. Two other negros who were in the car at the time were discharged from the court following nol proses. No evidence was submitted which would indicate that the men, Oscar Spivey and Clinton Douglas, were responsible for the accident.
--John Wilder was one of the principal sufferers in court Tuesday drawing a term of six months on the roads in each of two cases of larceny of a quantity of laundry. The goods were produced in court and the evidence was strong against the negro.
--Charged with illegal possession of whiskey, Lois Bunpas was fined $50 and the costs.
--Zollie Lynn drew 30 days in jail resisting an officer and 60 days for illegal possession of whiskey.
--Henry Johnson, charged with drunkenness, pled guilty and was fined $5 and the costs.
--John Williams was given a suspended sentence upon payment of the costs in a case of violating a city ordinance.
--Nelson Peppers, charged with assault and battery, was fined $1 and the costs. --Jim Woods, charged with assault and battery, was fined $50 and the costs. The defendant appealed and was required to furnish a bond of $50.
--Walter Lee, charged with illegal possession of whiskey, was found not guilty.
--Walter Adams was given prayer for judgment for carrying a concealed weapon.
--Willie Robertson was fined $100 and the costs for illegal possession of whiskey.
From page 2 of Durham Herald, N.C., Dec. 19, 1923
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