Thursday, May 8, 2025

If Not Out of Town by 6 o'clock Alice Haffiner Faces 60-Day Sentence, May 8, 1925

Sentence Given Woman Drinker. . . Defendant Is Allowed Until 6 O’clock to Leave Town; Another Given 60 Days

“Ain’t nothing to laugh at!” was the parting retort of Alice Haffiner as she turned back and spoke to those inside the recorder’s court room this morning. She had been tried on a charge of drunkenness, fined $5 and costs, and not having money to pay out with, was sentenced to 30 days in the workhouse, capias to issue at 6 o’clock this afternoon or any time thereafter within two years. On being told that that she could go free if she would leave town by 6 o’clock this afternoon, she hurried to go.

“Thank you, Judge! Thank you!” she said, nervously hurrying out as some of the crowd found cause in the occasion to laugh. The officer who arrested the defendant stated that when arrested she was drunk on some kind of dope, that she had a needle and an empty morphine tablet bottle in the room. She said her home was in South Carolina and that she had come here form Norfolk, but not to obtain dope.

J.E. Clayton drew two $5 fines, with costs, for being drunk and having in his possession a half bottle of hair tonic for the purpose of drinking Not being able to pay the fines, the defendant was sentenced to 60 days in the work house, 30 days in each case.

John F. Boyd and W.B. Markham, both colored, plead guilty to not putting in water and sewerage connections. They were allowed to May 30 to get the work done.

From page 7 of the Durham Sun, Friday afternoon, May 8, 1925

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