Sixty days on the roads, the 60 to begin at the end of the sentence he escaped from, was the substance of the word John Wilder, colored, heard the judge speak in Recorder’s court this morning. And now John thinks the law of the land is not very considerate. John went on the witness stand and stated that he did not escape from the roads. He just went away because he had received a letter from his sister which she had written telling him she was “at the point of death.” This happened about three or four weeks ago, after he had served six months of a term of two years. John said he would have gone back even if they had not caught him down near Clayton yesterday.
The defendant also testified that this was not the first time he had escaped. While serving a previous sentence some time ago, he had escaped when his mother died. He thinks his reason for leaving his comrades of the stripes no cause for charging him with escape.
From page 2 of The Durham Sun, May 29, 1925
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