Men Who Broke into Home, Kidnapped and Flogged "Conjure Doctor" Fined by Judge Cramner, Aug 29, 1926

When Superior Court for the criminal cases adjourned yesterday afternoon is re-convened Monday morning, 17 defendants had been given prisons sentences. Sixteen of the convicted defendants will serve 23 years and three months on the roads of Wayne count. One will serve six years in the state penitentiary.

Three divorces had been granted, and the 10 floggers convicted of housebreaking and kidnapping in the “conjure doctor” case had been sentenced to fines and costs totally approximately $1,900.

Other Cases

Yesterday court remained in session until 1:30 and sentences passed on Tom Pierce, found guilty of ?? whiskey in his possession for the purpose of sale. Piece was sentenced to serve 18 months on the county roads, and it was ordered ?? gave notice of appeal costs should be fixed at $50 and bond at $3,000.

Judge Cramner ordered that three months of the 18 months sentence against Exum Hooks of Pikeville (rest of sentence obscured).

Alonzo Wall and Jessie Wall, young Goldsboro white men, were found guilty on a charge of store breaking and larceny and sentenced to serve 2 ½ years on the county roads. Evidence was introduced to show that these young men had stolen a quantity of goods from the store of Gay Brothers at Mount Olive.

It is expected that a good part of this week will be taken up with criminal cases. Possibly the case which will excite the most public interest of all during the session will be called Monday. This is the charge against H. J. Neely and Harold Grady in connection with the death of Dessie P. Traylor in an automobile accident several weeks ago.

From the front page of the Goldsboro News, Aug. 29, 1926

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