Camden, Sept. 28—Willie Creekmore and James Powers, youths who pleaded guilty in Superior Court yesterday afternoon to a charge of having broken into the smokehouse of J. Logan Shawyer, prosperous farmer living in South Mills township, and to having stolen a quantity of meat valued at $75, were sentenced to four months in jail each, to be worked on the roads.
Evidence in the case was that Creekmore and Powers took the meat to Norfolk and sold it. Suspecting what had become of it, Mr. Sawyer traced the meat to Norfolk and subsequently procured warrants against the pair.
Ab. Sanderlin, colored, convicted on a charge of reckless driving, was fined $25 and costs and was required to pay a bill of $32 for repairs to another car figuring in the accident which resulted in his arrest.
A divorce was granted one colored couple in an action brought by Joe Simmons against Lovie Simmons, on statutory grounds.
Arguments were concluded in the afternoon in a case in which Willie Harris and ?? Williams, both colored, were charged with having broken into the garage of James Meggs in Belcross, and with having stolen four automobile tires.
Harris was found guilty and was sentenced today to four months on the roads. Williams was acquitted. This case was the last on the criminal docket.
The first civil case tried was an action in which W. S. Berry, Belcross merchant, sued Herman Newbern, prominent Camden County farmer, for $140 alleged to be due on a store account incurred in the operation of a farm jointly by Mr. Newbern and Ike Fisher. Mr. Newbern contended that the bill was incurred by Mr. Fisher, who is said to be out of the State at present.
From the front page of the Daily Advance, Elizabeth City, N.C., Tuesday evening, Sept. 28, 1926
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