Local officers as well as those in Charlotte are on watch now for a “bad” negro who escaped from the Cabarrus chain gang several months ago and is believed to have stolen two pistols recently from a Landis store.
The negro, whose name is not divulged by officers, was one of several who overpowered a local chain gang guard on the Gold Hill road several months ago, making their escape after cutting their shackles and chains.
It is reported that the negro was seen here this week and that he intimated to another man who knew him when both were on the chain gang, that he was going to Charlotte.
From page 5 of The Concord Daily Tribune, May 27, 1926
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