An aggravated case of abandonment and non support occupied most of the three hour and a half session of police court Monday morning.
The defendant was George A. Midgett, 35 years old white man, and he was given a sentence of six months in jail, sentence to be suspended on execution of a $500 bond to appear before the court and show good behavior and to pay is wife $60 a month. She has five children.
Midgett had not been able to arrange bond when his newspaper went to press.
--Henry Price, colored boy, for passing a pedestrian on the sidewalk without dismounting, paid a fine of $1 and costs.
“I used to think,” said Prosecuting Attorney LeRoy, “that this was a trivial offense; but so many complaints have come to me of bundle boys who crowd pedestrians off the sidewalk that I am convinced that the ordinance is a necessary one and all cased of its violation that come to my attention will be prosecuted.”
--Dolly Brothers and Bertie Banks, colored, for the use of indecent language on their premises in such loud tones that it could be heard for half a bloc, were each fined $5 and costs.
From the front page of The Daily Advance, Elizabeth City, N.C., Monday Evening, March 23, 1925
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