Tom Shankle, widely known Concord negro, was bound over to Cabarrus Superior court on three counts Monday when given a hearing before Justice of the Peace Robinson on a charge of incest.
Shankle found bondsmen and was released from the county jail where he had been held for 10 days. His bondsmen are C.A. Isenhour, J.T. Honeycutt, and D.A. McLaurin. His bond totals $3,000.
The charges against Shankle, it is said, resulted from investigations continued over several months. Local officers, it is said, were assisted by State officers who succeeded in securing several of the witnesses who testified at the preliminary hearing Monday.
Three daughters of Shankle, all now residing in Boston, and one son, John Shankle, also a resident of Boston, were the chief witnesses presented at the hearing by the State. Each of the daughters, it is said, testified that she had been forced to have illicit relations with her father. The son, it is reported, also told the court that he knew of the illicit relations between his father and his sisters. It was stated by the witnesses, it is reported, that Shankle forced his daughters to submit to him.
Shankle when arrested protested his innocence. He said the charges were a plot against him and told county officers that he knew some one had been trying to get something on him for several years.
The case will be called at the term of Cabarrus county court which convenes here next Monday.
From page 5 of The Concord Times, Thursday, April 8, 1926
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