Friday the 13th was not as unlucky for D. Byrd, negro, as many though it would be when he went before Recorder P.S. Kornegay on charges of carrying a concealed weapons, secret assault, vagrancy and fornication and adultery. He paid the costs in two cases, was not tried for vagrancy and got six months for carrying a concealed weapon.
Officers who arrested Byrd last Tuesday afternoon stated that he was a bad negro, and that they had been advised that he had defied any man or officer to try to take him. The secret assault charge finally came out of the hopper as a simple assault with $10.60 costs added.
From the front page of The Robesonian, Lumberton, N.C., March 16, 1925
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