Charlotte, Sept. 24—Sheriff W. O. Cochran of Mecklenburg County, who has been cited to appear in Buncombe County to show cause why he should not be held in contempt of court for not serving a capias on a Charlotte man, was absolved of blame today by Deputy Sheriff Avery B. Johnson.
“I am responsible for whatever failure there was for not serving the capias on Hugh Rogers and returning him to the authorities at Asheville, and Sheriff Cochran is not at all to blame for any part of it,” the deputy said. “I think the public ought to know that the sheriff did not know the details of the case and left it to me to handle.”
Rogers, who was wanted in Asheville for trial on a charge of embezzlement, was returned there today by Johnson.
From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Sept. 25, 1926
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