Burlington, March 13—Judge E. H. Murray today established a precedent in the application of the law in this city when he issued a warrant against “the groundhog” for alleged tampering with the weather.
Hardy Stockard, veteran Alamance county deputy sheriff, has been called upon to make the arrest and to hold the prisoner without bail, if he is apprehended.
According to information given out by Judge Murray, the deputy will form a posse of irate citizens to assist him in the arrest if the bloodhounds are able to trail the alleged desperate character to his lair, which it is feared will be a difficult task because the snow had blotted out his tracks.
From the front page of The Concord Daily Tribune, March 15, 1926
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