As the outcome of a highly embarrassing incident Friday night, Wilfred Deans and George Scott, white youths living here, submitted in recorder’s court Monday morning to charges of being drunk, and were fined $10 and costs each.
Information from the police is to the effect that Deans and Scott were out riding with two girls on the night in question, and the car stopped on the edge of town, near the Norfolk Southern Railroad. The car may have stopped of its own accord, as motor driven vehicles occasionally do; or it may have stopped by the simple expedient of turning off the switch. At any rate, it stopped.
Several members of the police force were on the lookout for a suspected bootlegger in that vicinity Friday night. When the automobile halted, they became interested. The outcome of it was that four policemen paid a visit to the car.
The girls were terrified beyond measure. One fainted outright. Observing what they regarded as evidence that liquor might be aboard, the officers ordered the occupants to alight and let them search the car. They claim to have discovered a bottle that apparently had contained liquor, and arrested the two boys.
Rather than have the spotlight of free publicity turned upon the episode, the boys plead guilty to a charge of being drunk, and the incident was closed, as far as they were concerned, when they paid their fines. The names of the girls did not appear in the court’s disposal of the case, no charges having been preferred against them.
From the front page of The Daily Advance, Elizabeth City, Monday evening, September 14, 1925
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