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Thurman Nance Charged With Seducing Miss Daisy Vestal, July 8, 1926

Nance Is Charged with Seduction

Winston-Salem, July 3—Thurman Nance of Yadkin County, tried in Magistrate’s Court yesterday on a charge of seducing a young woman, Miss Daisy Vestal of this city, was bound over to Superior Court under bond of $1,500.

The prosecuting witness alleged that Nance had promised to marry her after paying her marked attention. A year ago, a child was born.

The young woman testified that Nance, who had boarded near the house in which she was staying, had taken her riding several nights, and that she had spent a week at his family home in Yadkin County. Her testimony was corroborated by her father.

From the front page of The Yadkin Ripple, East Bend, N.C., Thursday, July 8, 1926

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