Asheville, July 28—"Boxing increases crime and boxing in and around Asheville must stop,” Judge A. M. Stack told Sheriff E. F. Mitchell before Superior Court that opened this morning.
Judge Stack said that he had read in a newspaper that a match was to be fought soon at Kenilworth. “I don’t know what local statute you may have here to protect you, but the solicitor and I have been unable to find any; under the laws of North Carolina boxing is a felony and is punishable by a sentence in the state penitentiary.”
Then he instructed the sheriff to notify the promoters of the local match not to allow it to take place, and to be present next Friday to say that it did not take place. If it should, he told him, “you are to arrest those connected with it and prepare the way for an indictment by the grand jury.”
From the front page of the Danbury Reporter, Wednesday, July 28, 1926
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