Olive Elliott, colored, in recorder’s court Saturday morning, testified that Charlie Rich, colored, threw a hammer at her, just for meanness, so far as she knew. Charlie testified that he did not throw the hammer at her but at another fellow who had a pistol on him. He was fined $5 and costs.
Harry Yeargan was given 30 days in the work house and he has got to serve about 60 more, before the 30 begin. ‘Twas this way: Last August Harry was sent out to the workhouse to serve a 60-day term. In about five or six hours after he arrived at the work house, he managed to slip successfully away, testified Mr. Hall, work house superintendent. And now the 60 must be lived through in addition to the 30 added for escaping.
Horace Bland, D. Emery, V.R. Smith, Claude Jackson, and H. Emergy, a quintet charged with gambling, will be tried May 12.
Robert Brown, colored, charged with stealing a pair of shoes, will be tried May 11, according to continuance of the case.
Tom Wilkins plead guilty to illegal possession of whiskey and was fined $5 and costs.
Worth Roycroft was fined $5 and costs on a speeding charge.
From page 2 of the Durham Sun, Sunday morning, May 10, 1925
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