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Woman Faints When Chief of Police Stops By Hotel Room, June 1, 1925

Woman Faints in Hotel Room When Officer Makes a Call. . . Threatens to Bring Suit Against Lumberton Chief-of-Police—Officer Advising Her About Laws of Town

When Chief of Police D.M. Barker went to room 229 in the Lorraine hotel Friday about noon, a young white woman giving Greensboro as her home opened the door and after talking with the officer a few minutes fainted, medical attention being necessary.

According to Officer Barker, he had information which lead him to believe the woman was using the hotel for immoral purposes, and wen to her room to notify her that she could not stay in Lumberton if such was her purpose. She had registered at the hotel the night before as Jacqueline Batton and left here Saturday morning. Hotel officials state that she had not misused the hotel according to their knowledge.

That she is going to bring suit against the Lumberton chief was the threat she left here, according to those who heard her tell how she had been insulted. She claimed she is well acquainted with some of Greensboro’s best people.

From the front page of The Robesonian, Lumberton, N.C., Monday, June 1, 1925

newspapers.digitalnc.org/lccn/sn84026483/1925-06-01/ed-1/seq-1/#words=JUNE+1%2C+1925

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