Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1910-06-01
one who could tessify against him

tlnued until to-day.
John Watts plead guilty to
being drunk and Judgment was
suspended upon payment of cost
during good behavior.
Henry Hackett, imbibing too
much near beer to which be added
one drink of whiskey and went to
sleep Oh the street, was let of
with the cost.
Walter Petty, a Negro charged
with breaking a glass In a real
door of Sam Vanderholt's restaur-
ant, on Saturday night of last
week, and stealing, two watches,
was given a preliminary hearing
i'll the County Court on Saturday
morning. Petty had been board.
ing at the place and was seen
there just before - o'clock on
Saturday night. On Sunday
morning it was found that some
one had broken the glass in the
window and had reached in and
removed a bar which fastened the
door. The watches were gone and
80 Sas Petty, who was not seen
again untiI Friday, when he was
arrested just after rs had sold a
gold watch to Walter Kerr, a
white man. getting 50 50 for it.
When arrested the other watch
was found on him, The evidence
Was sufficient to bind Petty to the
Superior Court, and, failing to
give the $500 bond required, he
was sent 10 Jail.
The three white boys, convicted
early in the week of entering a
house at Spencer, IN Sunday, and
stealing a roast of beef from the
stove, a lot of pies from the table,
and no have been held since to
give them a chauca to hear from
friends i'll SpartaAbarg, were ord
cred sent to the roads for go days.
jerry Woods, charged with sell
ling & pint of liquor to another
negro on January I'd. proved by
good witness that he was m
where else on that day and was
discharged.
Ii was to a crowded mourner's
bench that Judge Miller opened
the County Court on Tuesday
morning. 1t was the day after
the Both and it looked as if the
police had got out a drag net.
Ten vera brought around from
the city hall. where they had
spent the night in the lookup, and
there were a number who had
been able to give bend.
Leola baltimore, a lady of color,
plead guilty to cursing on the
street and was told that she could
pay half the cost, or take 80 days
on the roads.
Arthur Turner and Jabez Clod-
felter charged with fighting.
Clodfelter plead guilty and Tur-
ner vas held SO. Clodfelter was
required to pay $500 and cost,
judgment was suspended upon
Turner in case he paid fine in q
case in which he was convicted
last week.
Joe Fronts plead guilty to
a plain drunk ard is let off at
holiday prices, So and the cost,
A case against John Lindsay,
charged with being drunk and
cutting his wife. was continued
until his wife can appear.
Geo. Adams, a Granite Quarry
Negro, who brought his gun along
and who was arrested for being
drunk, paid $25 and the cost.
J. D. Mowery plead guilty to
q plain drunk and paid the cost.
Calvin Griffith, a very black
Negro from Statewide, was arrest.
ed for being drunk and gave as
his reason for carrying the pistol,
which was found on him, that
he was night Waterman at q fur
niture factory at home, that he
expected to go at once TO his work
upon getting to Statesville. His
home was some distance from the
factory, he had brought the pistol
along to save going after it upon
his return. A telegram from his
employer stating that he was a
good Negro and was Waterman at
the factory, probably saved him
fr NJ the chain gang, SO he was
told that he could 60 when he
paid $25 and the cost.