Four stolen months of freedom proved rather costly to Hubert Umstead, colored. About four months ago he escaped from the county road force where he was serving a two-year sentence, after having served only about six months of it. They caught him and brought his secretive period to an abrupt end. He was sentenced in recorder’s court Saturday morning to two extra months for escaping, and this will be served at the end of the interrupted term.
R.C. Smith was fined $1 and costs on an assault charge.
Robert Monroe and Beatrice Dunnegan, a colored couple, were charged with an affray alleged to have taken place in a local store. The evidence offered was not sufficient to convict in the face of their staunch denials and verdicts of not guilty were entered.
Necto Monroe was called and failed to answer to a charge of violating a city ordinance.
From the front page of The Durham Sun, May 24, 1925
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