John Canaday, late of Johnston County, found himself to be a very welcome visitor here in Smithfield when he appeared yesterday to visit a lady friend who is now in jail awaiting trial on charges of immorality. Canaday fearlessly went into the office of the county superintendent of public welfare, and asked if he might go up into the jail and see his friend, the woman in question. Mrs. Thurston, the superintendent, ever ready to accommodate the public, accompanied him up into the jail and to the cell where the woman was confined. There it was that he very carelessly dropped his name—John Canaday.
Mrs. Thurston kept her counsel and when the conversation between the two had ended, she invited him downstairs and introduced him to the sheriff, who had a warrant and capias ready to serve upon him, which had been waiting for him since last September. Canaday is wanted in the Johnston County courts for abandonment of his wife and children. He protested against arrest but was held firmly by the sheriff until he could secure bondsmen. He is now under bond to appear here where he will be tried in Recorder’s Court on charges of desertion.
From the front page of the Smithfield Herald, Tuesday morning, March 16, 1926
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