Thursday, August 28, 2025

Eli Saba Charged with Attempted Assault, Aug. 29, 1925

Charged with Assault on Girl at Salisbury

Salisbury, Aug. 28—Eli Saba, a Syrian who conducts a grocery store on East Innis street, was given a preliminary hearing before Esquire W.L. Ray this afternoon, being charged with having attempted an assault on a young white girl clerk in his store. The magistrate reserved is decision as to bond and also as to what offense he would send the prisoner up to superior court on until Saturday morning. The crime is alleged to have taken place in the store one evening last week, and Saba has been held in jail since his arrest Saturday.

From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Saturday, Aug. 29, 1925

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