Monday morning Earl Wall, under an eight-months sentence for abandonment and assaulting his wife, was missing from the county jail. He made his departure down a ladder of blankets from a hole in the brick wall about midnight, it is thought. About two hours after he escaped, his abandoned wife was escorted in by way of the big iron front door, and although Earl remains at large, the family is still represented in the jail—and will be for 30 days, that being the sentence allotted the wife in recorder’s court Monday by Judge Falls.
Last week Estelle Wall was the prosecuting witness against her husband and the result was that the husband was given the road term. Late Sunday midnight, or rather early Monday morning, Kings Mountain officers in search of a stolen pistol found the pistol in a car. Occupying the car at the same time were four people, two Hord boys, General and Bynum, and two women, Estelle Wall and Minnie Estell, both having faint recollection of having been united in matrimony at some previous time. The four in recorder’s court were charged with being drunk and disorderly together with other charges. On the charge of being drunk and disorderly, the Hords were fined $100 and the costs each, and Bynum Hord was also fined $50 and costs for the larceny of the pistol. The two women were ordered confined to the county jail for 30 days. Owing to the nature of the charges, the attendance at the trial was unusually large—and interested.
Pays to Reduce
Wall escaped by digging out some brick under the window sill in the second floor and dropping to the ground on two blankets tied together. In the cell with him was C.J. Icard, under a sentence of one year for retailing, and Icard did not escape, but Icard is what might be termed rather stout, and the hole was rather small.
From the front page of the Cleveland Star, Shelby, N.C., Tuesday, August 5, 1924
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