Dallas Freeman Upset His Cafe Was Robbed and That Police Didn't Come Immediately, March 29, 1924

$30 Gone, Police Too. . . Elizabeth City Restauranteur Minus and Police Are Not to be Found

Elizabeth City, March 28—Dallas Freeman, proprietor of the Coney Island Café, thinks it is high times when somebody can break into his restaurant, steal $30 from the cash drawer, and make away with it, without being molested by the police. Freeman says somebody entered his Matthews street eating house on Wednesday night, and got away with between $25 and $30.

The thieves made their entry from a livery stable, in which one corner of the café is built. Freeman says he called up the Chief of Police Gregory and P.G. Sawyer, Prosecuting Attorney, at 6 o’clock in the morning and couldn’t get either of them to come down to their offices. Mr. Freeman thinks it unnecessary to have police who chase their heads off after a pint of liquor and let a robber get away with money without trying to get him while the scent is hot.

From the front page of The Goldsboro News, Saturday, March 29, 1924