Norman Hunt, Indian gunman who was arrested at a filling station 3 miles west of here Wednesday night by Sheriff B.f. McMillan after it was reported that Hunt was trying to hold up the proprietor of another filling station at the point of a gun, was sentenced to a total of 13 months on the roads late Friday afternoon by Recorder P.S. Kornegay.
Hezzie Oxendine, who was with Hunt at the time, was charged with driving a car while under the influence of whiskey, possessing and transporting whiskey, but was given such good recommendations by the officers that arrested him, and the prosecuting witness, that he was allowed to pay a total of $35.70 and his car ordered returned to him.
Hunt was charged with carrying a concealed weapon, resisting an officer and being drunk. He was given 6 months each in the first two and one month in the last charge. It was in evidence that upon information Sheriff McMillan went to Hall’s filling station about 2 ½ miles west of here, where it was reported the trouble began. Mr. Hall testified that before Sheriff McMillan arrived, Norman Hunt and Hezzie Oxendine came to the station and that on account of a slight breach of conduct, Mr. Hall had to call Oxendine’s attention to his actions. Oxendine, Mr. Hall said, told him he was sorry for anything he had done that was not right. After this Mr. Hall saw Hunt get a pistol out of his car. He asked the Indian what he was going to do with it. Hunt is said to have told him that if he would come around behind the filling station, he would show him. Mr. Hall told him that what he was going to do would have to be done in the light.
After a few more words Hunt and a woman walked off down the road, Oxendine and another woman following in the car. Sheriff McMillan was told that the Indians had gone toward the other station across the river and the officers proceeded there. When the sheriff walked into the station, he saw Hunt standing beside a stove with his hands in both overall pockets. Pulling his gun the sheriff ordered him to hold up his hands. “I’m standing up and that is all I’m going to do,” the sheriff understood him to say. At this instant a deputy came in the building and with a gun drawn covered the resisting Indian. Then the sheriff pulled Hunt’s hands out of his pockets and made him raise his hands, finding in his pocket a 32-calibre automatic pistol, the third officers have taken off the Indian during the past few months. After this there was no further trouble. In Oxendine’s coat a small quantity of whiskey was found, and in the rear of the car a quart jar one-third full of whiskey was found. Oxendine contended that he knew nothing of the whiskey in the rear of the car, and Hunt stated that was true, he having put the whiskey thee without telling or getting Oxendine’s consent. It was on these grounds that the recorder allowed the car to be returned to Oxendine.
Immediately following the robbery in Ashpole swamp several weeks ago, when Mr. F.L. Fenegan, fruit salesman, was knocked in the head and robbed of $60 in cash, officers found Hunt and an Indian woman cohabitating together. A heavy fine was placed on Hunt at the hearing which followed. A pistol was found on this occasion. Hunt is known to be a dangerous man when he is drinking and it appears from the court records that he is generally drinking.
Other Cases
Other cases disposed of by Recorder Kornegay during the past week were:
--Robert Haywood was required to pay Mrs. Agnes Edmund, prosecutrix, $9.01 and the costs in the case for disposing of crop.
--Probable cause was found against Prince Gavin, colored boy charged with having carnal knowledge of a female under 16 years of age.
--John Bullard paid a board bill and the costs in a case charging him with evading the payment of the bill.
From the front page of The Robesonian, Lumberton, N.C., Monday, Nov. 30, 1925
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