Winston-Salem, April 2—Trial of Max Samet and his two sons, charged with burning their store and stock of goods at King to obtain insurance on the property, began in Stokes Superior Court Tuesday, will not be concluded before late Saturday. Many witnesses have been examined for the State and when court adjourned this evening taking of evidence for the defendants, which consisted largely of testimony of character witnesses, had not been finished.
Evidence given by Fred White was perhaps the most damaging of any presented against the defendants. He testified that F.N. Jones came to him in King and asked him to go to Mount Airy and sign a statement declaring that he saw some men come from the Samet store shortly before the fire and that they were tall and wore light colored suits. White stated that he was paid $25 by F.N. Jones and Morris Samet to sign this statement and was promised $500 more if the Samets were acquitted.
White stated that he had received a check for $25 and the check was offered as evidence. The statement to the effect that he saw the men come from behind the store was sworn to in a lawyer’s office in Mount Airy in the presence of Morris Sammet and F.N. Jones.
The Samets carried on their building and stock of goods the following insurance: $10,000 on stock of goods, sold to them by H.R. McPherson at Walnut cove; $2,500 on the building sold to them by H.R. McPherson of Walnut Cove; $10,000 sold to them by an insurance firm of High Point. There was also a concurrent provision in all policies together of increasing the amount $25,000 more than the total of all policies. The stock of goods was estimated to have been worth about $20,000.
From page 3 of The Concord Daily Tribune, April 5, 1926
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