Bill Davis, Roxboro man, seems unable to quit taking things.
Davis escaped from the Cabarrus county chain gang early Thursday morning, when to Charlotte and was arrested there Thursday night charged with stealing a watch.
The Roxboro man got in trouble here when he carried off an overcoat belonging to W.J. Montgomery. He was arrested in Roxboro and brought back here for trial, being sentenced to serve eight months on the chain gang. Thursday morning he told prison officials he was ill, so he was left in the camp. Soon after he cut his shackles, pried open a window and escaped. Where he secured clothing is not known.
According to reports reaching concord he was arrested in Charlotte after taking a watch from a man. The man, whose name is not known here, felt someone in his pocket and glancing around saw Davis walking off. He felt for his watch and missing it, called an officer. Davis had the watch, it is said.
Sheriff Caldwell went to Charlotte today to ask the officers there to return Davis to this county to complete his sentence before being tried for the theft of the watch. If this is done, Davis will be turned over to the Charlotte officers when he finishes his term in this county.
Sheriff Caldwell, Deputy Sheriff Honeycutt and Chief of Police Talbirt went to Charlotte this morning in an effort to bring Davis back, but were advised that he already had been bound over to Mecklenburg Superior Court under $500 bond, which he could not give.
The officers also learned that first reports received here for the robbery for which Davis is being held were not accurate. Instead of taking the watch from a man, Davis took it from a home, along with a pair of pants.
According to information given the local officers, the owner of the watch and his wife started for an auto ride late Thursday afternoon, after noting that a pair of pants containing the watch had been stolen from their home during the day.
As they were riding along the wife saw Davvis and told her husband, “There’s a man with our pants on now.” The husband stopped the car, grabbed Davis and sent his wife for an officer. The watch was found in the pants when Davis was searched.
Davis will be held for local officers when the Mecklenburg courts are through with him.
From page 6 of the Concord Times, Monday, May 3, 1926
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