Celebrating Eastern Monday with fireworks seemed very appropriate to Jim Steward, Haiti negro, but Tuesday morning before Judge P.C. Graham the court is not expected to look upon the method as being in keeping with the spirit of the day.
Steward was arrested under charges of carrying a concealed weapon and shooting firearms within the city limits. The case is aggravated somewhat by a method Steward is said to have used in adding a little zest to his celebration. It is stated that he took a small negro boy and carried him into the nth degree of fright by seeing how close he could come to the little fellow without actually hitting him. this dangerous playing was brought to an end, however, by the arrival of policemen and now Steward is meditating upon is fun behind the bars at the courthouse.
From page 2 of the Durham Morning Herald, April 22, 1924
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