Bright sunshine bathed Chapel Hill’s main street Saturday morning, and scores of people stood along the curbs and against the store-fronts. A slender young man emerged hurriedly from the bank and started cross the street. A moment later M.E. Hogan, the cahsier, burst out of the door at top speed, shouting:
“Stop that crook!”
The slender young man broke into a run. All at once the street was in an uproar. Everybody joined in the chase, and everybody yelled.
Vernon Howell, waiting in the barber shot to succeed Frank Graham under the razor, came out; and Mr. Graham, his face covered with lather, followed him to see what it was all about.
Moody Durham was abreast of Mr. Hogan. Dr. B.B. Lloyd, who is a director of the ban, realizing that somebody had been trying to raid the surplus, trailed along.
The fugitive speeded through the Methodist churchyard and turned to the right behind Foister’s store. The force of men engaged in grading the churchyard threw down their tools and went after him.
Jack Merritt, the former varsity football star, had heard the commotion from his post in Lipman’s shop. He dashed up the alley-way that leads toward the fraternity houses and nabbed the culprit.
A moment later the young man was being brought back across the main street, his arms secured locked in the arms of Mr. Hogan and Mr. Durham. He looked like a pigmy between two giants, and he was badly frightened.
He turned out to be a man from Durham known to the police as “Hurley, alias Johnson.” He had come into the bank and tried to cash two checks to which Mrs. M.W. Daniel’s name ha been clumsily forged. Chief Featherstone said later than in his opinion the man was mentally unbalanced. The case awaits disposal in the superior court.
From the front page of The Chapel Hill Weekly, Friday, Feb. 19, 1926
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