A mystery which has puzzled the police for a month has been unraveled with the arrest of three negroes, charged with the larceny of several hundred dollars worth of staple merchandise from the wholesale grocery store of L.A. Raney Company, have been charged with receiving he merchandise, knowing it to be stolen goods. Norfolk Dixon, Richard Thomas and Richard Wynn are the negroes against whom the larceny charge has been placed and W.H. Whitted and William Snead, negro storekeepers in the Little Washington section of the city; Will Thompson, operator of a store on North Center Street, and Randall Uzzel, negro merchant of Pikeville, are alleged to have been the receivers of the illegally gained loot.
The negroes were given a preliminary hearing before Mayor Z.G. Hollowell yesterday morning. Whitted, Snead, Thompson and Uzzel furnished bonds of $100 each for their appearance in County Court, and Dixon, Thomas, and Wynn were placed in the Wayne County jail in default of bonds. Five hundred dollars bail was required of Dixon and Thomas, and $200 of Wynn. The negroes were rounded up Friday by policemen and deputies from the sheriff’s office.
It is thought that Dixon, Thomas and Wynn, former employees of the Raney Company, have been systematically robbing the store for some time. A quantity of the merchandise is said to have been recovered from the storekeepers to whom they are alleged to have sold it.
The seven negroes will likely be tried before Judge Bland in County Court Monday.
From the front page of The Goldsboro News, Sunday, Jan. 10, 1926
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