A sentence of 60 days on the roads with the alternative of a suspended judgment for two years conditional upon payment of a fine of $50 and costs was imposed by County Judge Sawyer upon Winfred Owens, who stood trial in recorder’s court Monday morning on charges of assaulting his wife and his mother-in-law, Mrs. Enoch Sanderlin.
The testimony was to the effect that Owens, who works on a boat which makes trips to Buffalo, across the sound, had gone to his home on Broad street late Saturday, accompanied by three other young white men, and that Mrs. Sanderlin visited him and upbraided him for taking the boys there, with the result that he struck or pushed her in such fashion that she fell down. He was accused also of having squeezed his wife so tightly that she felt the effects of it next day.
Owens was given until Tuesday morning’s session of court to raise the amount of the fine and costs or accept the road sentence.
Upon the request of Robert Lowry, counsel for the defense, the court continued cases against Lloyd Benbury and Jim Winslow, both colored, until Tuesday morning. Benbury is accused of having violated a number of provisions of the Turlington Act, and Winslow is charged with being drunk.
From the front page of The Daily Advance, Elizabeth City, Monday evening, September 14, 1925. The Turlington Act provided for the enforcement of prohibition.
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