Harry M. King blew into town about two months ago as a barber, with Morehead City and Norfolk experience. He sought a job and was given one in the Citizens Barber Shop.
About two days after there was a $38 shrinkage in the cash in the safe. No charges were made against anyone as there was no proof as to who took the money. King continued to barber and gradually grew in debt at various and sundry places in town, among them his boarding house. He also borrowed the negro shoe shiner’s clothes to wear in some of his sporting episodes.
Sunday he rented W.L. Manning’s car and so far there is no further trace of him, though efforts are being made to locate him. The car he rented is a Chevrolet which had been used about a year, bearing license No. X-457.
King claimed that he was raised at Morehead City, where his father now lives. He seems to be around 21 years old and is unusually fresh in his manner.
From the first page of the Enterprise, Williamston, N.C., Tuesday, April 20, 1926
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