In Recorder P.S. Kornegay's Courtroom, Feb. 22, 1926

Negro Gets Two Years on Roads. . . Helper at County Home Left Windows Unlocked to Gain Entrance to Rooms of Inmates of Mental Deficiency—Charged with Entering Building for Immoral Purposes—Speights Charged with Assault Bound Over to Superior Court. . . Witnesses Failed and Assault Case is Nol Prossed

As a result of his alleged intimacy with female inmates of the count home, where he had been employed as a helper, Oscar Ratley, negro, was sentenced Saturday by Recorder P.S. Kornegay to two years on the county roads when found guilty of entering the building for immoral purposes.

Ratley was a favorite among the inmates, especially those of mental deficiency, and he was at liberty to go into every part of the building during the daytime, which gave him the privilege of leaving certain windows unlocked so he could re-enter at night. A few days previous to his trial he was sentenced to four months on the roads for disposing of mortgaged property.

Other Cases

Other cases disposed of recently in recorder’s court were as follows:

--M.G. Dial paid $100 and costs for possessing whiskey.

--Wiley Dillard paid the usual $25 fine for being “happy” drunk, while Madry Locklear paid the amount and costs for being “sad” drunk.

--W.L. Chappell paid the costs for speeding.

--Lem Key was fined $10 and costs for transporting one drink of whiskey.

--Mattie Caulder was given 4 months in jail for vagrancy, but was allowed to leave the county in lieu of the sentence.

--Alzie Edwards was given 30 days on the roads for using profane and indecent language on the public highway.

--Minta Stauart [Stuart?] was given a total of 9 months on the roads for driving a car while drunk, carrying concealed weapons, transporting whiskey, and reckless driving.

--The case against James Hall, charged with assault with a deadly weapon, was nol prossed on account of the absence of the prosecuting witnesses.

--Alex Blount paid the cost for larceny.

--J.C. Applewhite and Will Sinclair paid the costs and amount of bad checks.

--Vaughn White paid the cost in two cases of assault.

--Wat Lewis and Isabelle Mitchell were each taxed with the costs for prostitution.

--David Jones was given four months on the roads for possessing whiskey.

--Hamp and Ashe Speight were bound over to Superior Court on charges of assault with a deadly weapon. Bond in the sum of $100 for Ashe Speight was made, but Hamp went to jail in default of a $500 bond.

--J.F. Logan paid the costs for violating the automobile laws, and agreed to get proper license.

From the front page of The Robesonian, Lumberton, N.C., Monday, Feb. 22, 1926

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