Durham, May 2—Plainclothes Officers R.E. Southard and S.B. Jeffrey of Greensboro left Durham today with Claude Pruitt, white man charged with the theft of about $700 worth of jewelry from a firm in the town of Stoneville, near the Virginia line. With them they carried several hundred dollars’ worth of jewelry, including a cigar box containing 13 watches and a number of watch chains, fountain pens and small pieces of jewelry, all of which was recovered in Durham.
Pruitt was arrested in Greensboro Monday night after having first been arrested here by Stoneville officers on here and caught a freight train back to Greensboro, where he was caught by the Greensboro officers. He had been traced to Durham, and Officer Southard and Jeffrey, believing that he had disposed of part of the jewelry in Durham, brought him here last night. He directed the officers to several places where the jewelry had been hidden and sold. He took them first to a place south of Five Points, where he showed them the place where the cigar box of jewelry was cached in the cranny under the tracks of the Durham and Southern Railroad.
One diamond ring had been sold to the local jewelry firm of Snider and Fletcher. This was recovered as well as a watch which Pruitt had sold to Will Armstrong, colored bell boy at the Lochmoor Hotel. Another watch which had been disposed of at Stdium’s (??) Pawn Shop.
From the front page of the Goldsboro News, Saturday morning, May 3, 1924
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