High Point, July 31—Two young men of High Point have been implicated in the disturbance at Terrace Garden, in which a Forsyth County deputy sheriff was assaulted. Their names have not been revealed but it was admitted at the police station last night that Deputy Sheriff W.A. Fletcher, the officer in question, had left two warrants here to be served.
“We would rather not divulge their names until the warrants have been served,” Desk Sergeant Wood stated last night, who told of deputy Fletcher’s visit.
It was impossible to get in communication with Mr. Fletcher, but it was said last night that he was “ganged” by spectators after he had taken the young Greensboro man, who resented the alleged insult to his sister, who was dancing at the Garden. He did not reveal the name of either the Greensboro boy or his sister, but it is understood that he has issued warrants for several Gate City persons who were at the dance Wednesday night.
Deputy Fletcher also denied the report, current on the streets yesterday, that his badge and gun had been taken away from him. “They got my blackjack,” he is quoted as saying, “But they did not get my gun or badge.” First reports of the fight at the dance were to the effect that the Greensboro girl who was the innocent cause of the trouble had seized the blackjack out of the hands of the officer as he was, apparently, about to strike her brother. But one of the warrants left here for service, police admit, sets forth that one o the the High Point spectators was responsible for this act.
From page 2 of the Goldsboro News, Saturday, August 2, 1924
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