Greensboro, March 4—Jack Shelton, tried Wednesday in Guilford Superior Court, was found guilty on the charge of theft from the American Exchange National Bank and sentenced to Judge C.C. Lyon to serve a year on the county roads. Shelton had entered a plea of not guilty. He was arrested in Charlotte about a month ago, soon after the theft of $50 in cash and $45,000 worth of papers. The papers were returned to the bank.
Shelton was charged with entering the bank, allegedly through the use of a pass key, and taking the loot from the vault of the bank. In it were some cashiers’ checks and it was through trying to pass one of these in a Charlotte hotel that he was arrested.
Judge Lyon gave notice that effort should be made to find and bring up an alleged confederate of Shelton. Shelton, a Danville, Va., man, had worked here a little while before the theft from the bank and had come back to the city just before the theft occurred.
The convicted man has a young wife.
From page 2 of The Concord Times, Monday, March 8, 1926
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