Warrenton, N.C., Jan. 18 (AP)—A plea of nolo contendre was accepted this afternoon by Solicitor R. Hunt Parker in the case of Ralph R.S. Register, former prominent Norlina business man, charged with embezzlement of from $3,800 to more than $9,000 from a Norlina building and loan association. A plea of nolo contendre is another case charging false representation in real estate sales also was accepted. Register was sentenced in each case to one year in state prison, the sentences to run concurrently.
A Warren County jury, which deliberated over the first case, failed to agree, and was discharged Sunday afternoon by Judge Garland Midyette. Register disappeared from Norlina last spring when the shortage in funds became known. He first went to Canda, and then to Florida, where he was arrested last fall.
From the front page of The Goldsboro News, Tuesday, Jan. 19, 1926
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