Friday Deputy Sheriff Plato Ledford and Marvin Hoyle halted a new Ford touring car in upper Cleveland only to have the two young men who occupied the car to depart hurriedly across a field. The officers, however, gave chase and caught them. Following their arrest, 10 gallons of liquor was found in the car and the two young men, E.R. Emory and J.L. Henderson, Spartanburg, were placed in jail here.
At the trial Saturday morning the boys through their attorney from Spartanburg plead guilty and attempted in no way to spin yarns about the charges against them. The young wife of Henderson was in court as was his father, and in the evidence offered by the attorney it was said that he was injured some time ago and being unable to work tried the rum-running plan to earn a living for his wife and two children. Neither, according to the records examined, had ever been in court before and owing to their frankness in coming clean, Judge Mull fined them $100 and the most each, giving a suspended sentence of four months each if they are ever caught dealing with liquor in this county in any form for a period of two years.
Thankful for Sentence
It is not often that a judge is thanked for imposing a sentence, especially with the thanks returned by the one sentenced, but such was the case Saturday morning when James Elder, colored, thanked Judge Mull for a six-months term of toil on the roads. Elder was sentenced for manufacturing liquor, but despite the thanks an appeal was entered. The recorder expressed surprise at the thanks and the negro, who is a Georgia product, replied: “Well, boss, Ah allus tries to be polite.”
Married Two Women
At the same session of court Hass Phillips, colored, sometimes known as Bridges, was placed under a $200 bond for Superior court, where he will face a bigamy charge. Back in 1921 Hass married Claudia Poston. He left her, it seems, and last week officers found him living with Murl Jeffries at Boiling Springs. At the officers’ inquiry, a South Carolina marriage license was produced, but even such a document from the sister state does not excuse a fellow when he is already married, or so thought the judge. The second wife, who didn’t think there was anything wrong with marrying a married man if he wanted her to and was not living with his wife, was let off with the costs. Phillips had nothing to say for himself.
From the front page of the Cleveland Star, Shelby, N.C., Tuesday, June 30, 1925
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