Horace Gavin Wrecks "Borrowed" Car, Sept. 7, 1925

Negro Wrecks “Borrowed” Car. . . Horace Gavin Wanted by Police—Wrecks Borrowed Buick on Return from Big Birthday Celebration at Giles Rozier’s Home—One Negro in Hospital and Five Others Out Under Bonds of $50 Each. . . Gavin Takes to the Unknown

Police and county officers are looking for Horace Gavin, and Prentice and William Love, Mack Blue and Charlie Stewart are under $50 bonds each for appearance before Recorder P.S. Kornegay, and Sam Bullock is in the Baker sanatorium, all of which is the result of too much celebration Friday night when they attended the festival held at the home of Giles Rozier, colored, honoring is 79th birthday.

Bullock was injured when a Buick automobile, owned by a Mr. Lerch, traveling salesman, and driven by Gavin, ran into a ditch. Gavin had found the car very convenient Friday afternoon after finishing his day’s work at the sales stables of Mr. W.I. Linkhaw, where Mr. Lerch had stored it. Having access to the stables and knowing the big Buick would be the very thing to carry some of his friends to the birthday celebration, Gavin could not resist the temptation. There was no use asking anyone about using it, for he was going to bring it right back and leave it just as it was. But he didn’t think about getting a little too much “celebration.” While returning from the party about midnight, the Buick became unmanageable for his liquor-weakened mind and into the ditch she went, tearing down a wheel and badly damaging another wheel and fender.

The driving of Gavin or the hard lurch they were having made the other boys mad and they began cursing and using boisterous language near a home about a mile from Rozier’s home. A telephone message was received by the county officers, who went at once and found everybody at the car except Gavin, who had left for parts unknown. The others were brought to jail and later released on bond. It is expected a hearing will be held tomorrow morning.

Louis McDowell, colored, also under $50 bond for his appearance before the recorder as a result of the birthday celebration. He was not with the automobile crowd, but found in another community in a drunken condition.

From the front page of The Robesonian, Lumberton, N.C., Monday, Sept. 7, 1925

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