Due to TB, Shaw Edwards to Serve 27 Months on State Farm, July 21, 1924

Shaw Edwards to Serve 27 Months on State Farm. . . Accepted Privilege Offered by Court When Examination Showed that He Had Tuberculosis

Shaw Edwards, accompanied by rural Policeman J.T. McRainey, left this morning for Raleigh, where he will be transferred to the State farm to serve a sentence of 27 months imposed by Recorder W.B. Ivey when the defendant was found guilty of larceny, transporting and driving a car while under the influence of whiskey.

He was first sentenced to the county roads, but an examination revealed the fact that he had tuberculosis and sentence was changed, giving him the privilege of going to the State farm, which he accepted.

From the front page of the Lumberton Robesonian, Monday, July 21, 1924

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