Oscar Pearce, Who Skipped Out on $156 Hotel Bill, Captured in Baltimore, Md., Oct. 13, 1926

Guest Jumps Bill at Hotel Jones. . . Jumps Hotel Bill and Is Nabbed in Baltimore; Deputy Gentry Goes After Him. . . Claimed to be a Lawyer

Oscar E. Pearce, who is believed to be a resident of Kentucky and who several weeks ago made his debut in the town of Roxboro, representing himself as a lawyer, is now being held in Baltimore, Md., on recommendation of N. W. Br???, sheriff of Person County, on charges of having left the town of Roxboro owing the Jones Hotel a bill amounting to $156.40. This amount is alleged to have been Mr. Pearce’s total bill from the time of his registration at the hotel to the time of his hi?? departure.

Deputy Gentry left home ?? with papers to be presented to Governor McLean to be signed by him for the arrest of Mr. Pearce.

From the front page of the Roxboro Courier, Wednesday, Oct. 13, 1926

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