Wailing lustily in a Ford car at “Chicken Corner,” where they had run out of gas, three small colored children were observed by residents of the neighborhood Sunday afternoon, after they had had a “joy ride” of several hours. Chief Holmes was notified, and took them in charge, later restoring them to their much disturbed parents. By way of parenthesis, it is explained for the benefit of the unknowing that “Chicken Corner” is the unofficial appellation of the intersection of Harney and Parsonage streets. The family started out for a Sabbath afternoon jaunt on the Hertford Highway, the father of the youthful trio explained to the chief, and something went wrong with the Ford just as they reached the Suffolk & Carolina Railroad crossing, a short distance from the passenger station. The car stopped dead in its tracks, refused to respond to first aid tactics, and finally the husband and wife walked ack to town for help, leaving their three children behind.
The eldest of the trio, a boy of 12 or 13, succeeded in starting the motor after the parents left, and the children decided to take a ride on their own account. This terminated when the gasoline gave out at “Chicken Corner.” When Chief Holmes took them in tow, they were hungry, cold and altogether miserable, he declared. The enterprising youngster who had engineered the party was given an energetically administered reminder of his parents’ disapprobation. They had spent several hours in a vain search for the car and its occupants.
From the front page of The Daily Advance, Feb. 22, 1926
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