J.B. Rice, charged with speeding, reckless driving and transporting whiskey heard the stiffest road sentence of the pat week pronounced on him Saturday morning by Judge Basil Watkins, when he was found guilty of each charge. A two-year term was given the transportation case while 30 days were added to that for cutting capers with a touring car loaded with whiskey. The defendant appealed the sentence of the lower court and was placed in jail in lieu of bond of $500 in one case and $200 in the other.
Jourdan Mangum, charged with carrying a concealed weapon and assault and battery, was arrested early Saturday morning after he is declared to have emptied several shots into the air in an attempt to frighten a fellow boarder with whom he had a difference. He was found not guilty of carrying the weapon concealed, but was fined $25 and the costs for turning loose the fireworks.
Three youngsters, Samuel Green, Mack Lee and Dave Wheeler, charged with store breaking and larceny following the entrance into a suburban store, were brought in court. Wheeler was held under probable cause and bound to superior court under a bond of $800, but the other lads said to be under 16 years of age, were turned over to the custody of W.E. Stanley, county welfare officer of juvenile court.
Speeders and drunks were numerous. Among the other cases dried during the day were the following:
Ed Durham, drunkenness, $5 and the costs
Harry Yarger, drunkenness, $5 and the costs
Harry Yarger, illegal possession, $5 and the costs
Dora Mann, boisterous cursing, $5 and the costs
Ella Green, boisterous cursing, $5 and the costs
J.V. Holeman, speeding $10 and the costs
G.C. Morton, speeding, $10 and the costs
Austin Carpenter, violating automobile law, judgment suspended upon payment of the costs
T.E. Crisp, violating automobile law, judgment suspended upon payment of the costs
Ellen Green and Mary |Tyson, charged with assault and battery with a deadly weapon, were each fined $5 and the costs
Lonnie Day, convicted of trespass, was ordered to leave the city by evening with a road term of 30 days hanging over his head if he remained. Needless to say, he departed.
The case of Johnnie Jones, charged with abandonment and non-support, was continued until August 11.
Lehman Bullock, convicted of speeding, was fined $10 and the costs
Ben Evans, charged with boisterous cursing, was fined $5 and the costs
Samuel Green, a boy, was turned over to juvenile court upon a charge of forcible trespass.
From page 21 of The Durham Morning Herald, Sunday, Aug. 10, 1924
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