Charlotte News, Sept. 3rd
“Out of the frying pan into the fire” went Raymond Hinson, 10-year-old youth of North Charlotte, who within 24 hours after his release on a charge of stealing one automobile, attempted Friday to drive off another.
The boy was caught at Fourth and /Graham Streets Friday morning by A. R. Coppedge of 800 North Graham Street as he attempted to drive off the automobile of T. B. Bailey of 810 North Church Street.
The youngster, who early in the week tried to wreck the room in which he was locked at juvenile detention quarters, fought desperately to prevent being taken to the welfare office. He hit, he kicked, and he bit. The skin on the hand of one of the men was lacerated by the bites the infuriated youth inflicted.
Bites Woman Officer
At the welfare office he continued his fight. Before he could be locked up he kicked Miss Mary Honeycutt, office assistant, and hit her on the arm and shoulder.
After being locked up, he grabbed a chair, attacked the wire netting across the window, jerked the bed aloose, wildly scattering the pieces about the room, and hurled them against the walls and door.
The enraged child became so vicious that a call was sent to the police station. L. E. Moser, police detective, was dispatched and by a little play of strategy brought the youth to the City jail and placed him in a cell without the slightest difficulty.
Hinson was arraigned Thursday before Judge Williams in Juveinle Court, after he had taken the a car belonging to the Drive-It-Yurslef Company of South Poplar Street, in front of the Hotel Charlotte last Saturday.
In Auto Wreck
He was going to Gastonia but he went in the wrong direction and was headed toward Concord instead. Near the Jackson Training School, the car turned over and the boy was taken into the institution. There he told attendants not to tell the police, for they would send him to Jackson Training School and he didn’t want to go there. He was unaware that he was at the school, and, when officers did come for him, he bucked at being taken away.
From the rural police station, to the welfare office, thence to City jail, he fought and kicked.
Monday morning, he was seen by a reporter and the juvenile detention quarters. The reporter greeted him “Buddy, how are you?
Says It with Fist
The youngster peered through the small opening in the door. He said not a word, but as quick as a flash his tiny fist shot through the opening and biffed the reporter on the nose. Then he grabbed a chair, and started battering up the place.
Welfare officers are in a quandary as to what to do to the youngster. Judge Williams ordered Thursday that he be placed in the Jackson Training School at the earliest opportunity and the boy was placed on probation until a vacancy occurs among the ranks of boys from this County.
At his first chance, he tried to steal another car, and this time, the sailing was not so easy. His father, W. C. Hinson of 504 Mecklenburg Mill, when informed of his son’s second attempt at automobile larcency, said for him to be turned over to the welfare officers.
From page 3 of the Concord Daily Tribune, Sept. 4, 1926
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