Greensboro, Dec. 28—Ed Iseley, white man, looking for trouble in the village of Stokesdale, Guilford County, went around poking a cocked pistol in people’s ribs, was the allegation made in Magistrate D.H. Collins’ court here this afternoon. He was celebrating Christmas on Saturday and seemed to think he was a Texas cowboy.
After the Stokesdale people had picked him up, when a resident who resented the pistol had stamped on Iseley a bit, a deputy sheriff arrested him. He was charged with carrying concealed weapons, having whiskey, and assault with deadly weapon. He didn’t have $10,000 bond required and went to jail to wait for Superior Court to open.
Ten years ago, the magistrate stated, the man wouldn’t have been allowed to live two minutes after he started looking for trouble in Stokesdale, but refining influences of civilization have made for law and order, and all he suffered was a changed face.
From the front page of The Concord Daily Tribune, Tuesday, Dec. 29, 1925
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