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Sam Lougee, Lula King, Robert Spain, Grace O'Daniel Sentenced, Dec. 18, 1924

Quartet Convicted. . . Two Women and Two Men Fined for Trespassing at Bell Roscoe’s House; Is Tried on Several Charges

Judge Graham had before him Wednesday the quartet of prisoners charged with trespassing at the Trinity avenue home of Bell Roscoe, an inmate of the county workhouse. The quartet composed of Sam Lougee, Lula King, Robert Spain and Grace O’Daniel was charged with using rooms for immoral purposes. Lougee was fined $25 and costs; Lula King drew six months’ workhouse sentence. She appealed and her bond was fixed at$200. Spain was fined $15 and costs, and Grace O’Daniel was fined $25 and costs. In the case in which the two negro men and two women were charged with trespass, they were fined $20 and costs each. Lougee was given a sentence of 30 days on the roads on a charge of vagrancy. Grace O’Daniel was fined an additional $5 and costs on a charge of boisterous cursing.

From page 2 of the Durham Morning Herald, Thursday, Dec. 18, 1924

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