Charlotte, Aug. 30 (AP)--Charged by three small daughters with giving whiskey to and beating their nine-year-old sister, Williard Davis, Pineville farmer, who submitted in criminal court today to assault charges, tonight was awaiting sentence.
Judgement was withheld pending further investigation after Judge James L. Webb had administered a severe reprimand. The whiskey charge was nol prossed [not pursued].
Davis said he had spanked the girl because she would not go to bed after he had permitted a visitor to give her half a glass of whiskey to drink.
The child, Davis said, had fled from the home after the first beating and he found her lying in a nearby cornfield in a drunken condition, and administered a second beating, using a leather strap. The girl was said to have been ill from the whiskey. The witness testified that the father was drunk at the time. The child was unable to appear in court because of illness.
Editor’s Note: Notice who charged Davis with this crime? It wasn’t the police. It was his “three small daughters.”
From the front page of the Goldsboro News, Tuesday morning, Aug 31, 1926
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