With a docket crowded with both important and petty cases, Recorder’s Court was in session all day Tuesday. Judge Maultsby reprimanded Justices of the Peace and officers for hauling people into court on petty offenses, saying they could be handled outside with better dispatch than they could be settled in court.
Will and Dave Gause, two Whiteville negroes charged with having obtained goods from Hammond Grocery Co. on false pretense, were turned loose. The prosecutor, J.H. Horne, was told to take his case into the civil courts for settlement and the Justice of Peace who issued the papers given a reprimand for sending the case into the criminal courts. The goods secured by the negroes amounted to $2.50.
Ed Bowen, young white man living near Whiteville, was given a suspended sentence for carrying a concealed weapon. The young man was found with a pistol while returning from a fishing trip at Lake Waccamaw. He had carried the gun along for shooting snakes on the trip.
--B.M. Sellers and N.G. Butler appealed sentences of 12 and 9 months on the roads for manufacturing liquor.
--Lee Clinton, not guilty on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon.
--Daniel Todd, Clarendon, suspended on payment of costs for operating an automobile while under the influence of whiskey.
--Arch Brown, manufacturing whiskey, continued, June 23.
--Joe Willoughby, manufacturing whiskey, continued, June 16.
--William Johnson, assault with deadly weapon, 12 months on roads.
--Sam Butler, transporting whiskey, 60 days.
--Grover Spivey, transporting, 30 days.
--Goldie Long, Chadbourne youngster, costs and sent to his daddy for strict control on a charge of house breaking and larceny.
--George C. Simmons, Hallsboro youth, house breaking and larceny, guilty, taxed with cost and put under $100 good behavior bond.
From page 8 of The News Reporter, Whiteville, N.C., Thursday, June 11, 1925
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