Kings Mountain Herald
Luther Kibler, a 10-year-old negro boy about town, appropriated one too many toe sacks and sold chickens too often. Monday morning Chief Irvin Allen hailed (hauled?) him before the clerk of the court at Shelby, who turned him over to Welfare Officer J.B. Smioth with instructions to hire him out to some farmer who would hold him in check. The charge to which he submitted was stealing chickens.
Mr. Boyce Falls had been missing his chickens and his toe sacks he put across his lap when he was milking. Mr. W.A. Ware had also missed some nice hens. Kibler had been selling lost of chickens to stores and cafes lately. One firm, Gold & Bridges, had refused to buy any of the boy’s catch but he had been able to market all his fowls. The other day Mrs. Boyce Falls saw the boy suspiciously lurking around the neighborhood of their barn Pretty soon she went out and he had her husband’s milking sack and was filling it with hens. He had gotten the fowls into the barn and closed the door and was just picking them up right and left.
Now Mr. Falls is wondering where he will come in for his pay. The occasion will also put merchants on their guard about buying chickens from irresponsible persons. Many had questioned the boy as to where he was getting so many chickens, but he always had a plausible story.
From page 3 of The Cleveland Star, Shelby, N.C., Tuesday, March 24, 1925
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