R.R. Cleve, middle-aged white man of western North Carolina, on Sunday afternoon was carried by Sheriff Harward to the state asylum at Raleigh from which institution he had been a fugitive for several weeks. County officials had known that Cleve was in Durham, and that he was feeble-minded, but they did not know that he had escaped from the state asylum until Sunday, when a telegram was received from Raleigh authorities. Cleve made no resistance. He had been staying part of the time with a brother in West Durham.
Sunday he approached Mrs. E.M. Hannah, secretary of the traveler’s aid bureau, with offices in the Union station, with a request for free transportation to his home in the western part of the state. This request was refused when she found out the identity of the man, and county officials were notified.
From page 2 of the Durham Morning Herald, April 22, 1924
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