Saturday night and Sunday were Red Letter Days in Rockingham for lawlessness. But if a person should take note, they will always find that right after a criminal term of court there is more law breaking than at any other time.
D.D. Yates was arrested Saturday night by Chief of Police for reckless driving. He gave bond. In less than 40 minutes afterward the Sheriff arrested him for driving a car while drunk and carrying concealed weapons. He was jailed.
K.D. Grant Jr. was arrested for operating a car while drunk and carrying a concealed weapon. Jailed.
W.J. Cain was arrested for being drunk and transporting whiskey. Jailed.
Dob Singletary was arrested for being drunk. Jailed.
These were arrested Sunday.
Saturday night the chief arrested James Buckles for reckless driving.
Carrie Ingram, Mary Cook, Alber Skipper and Coy Stover, all colored, arrested for F. & D.
Deputies Reynolds and Darby Covington captured a fine copper still near Hoffman Sunday morning.
Darby Covington went Monday to Salisbury to get John Ward, who is wanted for breaking into The Farmers’ Union Store at Ellerbe about a year ago.
Sheriff Baldwin recovered the car stolen from the Standard Oil Company about a week ago, about five miles from town in the weeds. The car had been stripped of about everything that could be removed.
This completes the list for a 24-hour stretch.
From the front page of Selders’ Weekly, Rockingham, N.C., April 25, 1924. The Press—The “Tongue” of the Country; May It Never Be Cut Out.
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