Alex Jackson Sent to Federal Prison for Concealing Assets in Bankruptcy, March 29, 1926

Fayetteville, March 25—Alex Jackson, well known Fayetteville merchant, was sentenced to one year and a day in the federal prison at Atlanta by Judge Isaac M. Meekins, in the United States district court here today, following his conviction of concealing assets in bankruptcy proceedings. Jackson went in voluntary bankruptcy in 1922, 10 months after opening a store here, and was charged with concealing assets of more than $1,000 and with swearing falsely to goods concealed in another store.

From page 6 of The Robesonian, Lumberton, N.C., March 29, 1926

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