George E. Koonce, a white man who recently moved to the Georgetown section of the city, was arrested here yesterday by Deputy Sheriff L. O. Rhodes and Police Officers G. Lancaster and Bass on the request of Lenoir county officers, for breaking into two stores and a number of smoke houses near Kinston.
The officers found three coal oil lights, 200 pounds of sugar, a rocking chair, a number of automobile tires and carpenter tools, and a quantity of meat and lard, all identified by residents of Lenoir county who came here today for that purpose.
“That man is the worst thief in Lenoir county, but we’ve had a hard time getting the goods on him,” declared one man who had been the victim of Koonce’s alleged thievery. “Why, he’s robbed two stores and every smoke house between Kinston and Greenville.”
Koonce was escorted back to the Lenoir county seat, to face the larceny charge.
From the front page of the Goldsboro News, Tuesday morning, June 2, 1925
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