The daily times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1902-1936, 1920-02-07
POLICE
S. G. SWAFFORD
of Aberdeen, N. c., Sent Up
for Illicit Dealing, Remov-
ing and Concealing
MUCH FLU IN RALEIGH
Times News Bureau, 4O1 Merchants
National Bank Building.
(By H. ID. Abernethy.)

Raleigh, n. c., Feb. Upon the |
condition that he make good the
amount lost because of his crime,
Ira Polansky, convicted in December
1918, and sentenced to three years
for forgery, was Friday granted al
pardon by Governor Beckett.
Polansky must pay TO the Wa
chovia Loan q Trust Co, of Winston
Salem, the sum of $50 within 80
days from the date of his pardon,
and the balance $2,250 in monthly
installments of fifty dollars until the
tul amount has been paid He must
also pay upon completion of the
| amount due the bank, the balance
of the loss sustained by the banking
! company The governor gives the
following reason for granting the
! pardon:
The defendant has now served
| about fourteen months, and has
| made good prisoner The loss in
| his forgery amounted to $4,000 The
] prisoner himself and his friends de-
| sire that he be given an opportunity
| to reimburse the people who lost
! and the people who sustained the
loss unite in the request that he be
given this opportunity
, Il think it would be best for the
prisoners future for him to be re
I leased at this time upon condition
! that he repay all losses sustained by
his misconduct than for him to serve
the balance of his term. Therefore
a pardon is granted upon the condi-
| tion that the prisoner, Ira Polan-
! sky, shall within thirty days after
his discharge, pay to the Wachovia
Loan & Trust Co., the sum of $50
and an additional $50 every 80 days
thereafter until~the full amount of
] the loss sustained by the bank shall
have been paid in full. After this
is paid in full, the balance of the
I loss sustained by the bonding Co.,
shall be paid in installments of $50
until the loss of the bonding COM
i pany is paid in full. Upon failure
of the prisoner to comply with these
conditions, the prisoner will be Or
dered back to prison.
Ex-chief Police Sent Up.
One of the three mn sentenced by
Judge Henry G. Connor in Federal
Court, Friday, to two years in the
penitentiary at Atlanta for illicit
dealing in whiskey, was S. G. Swat
ford, former chief of police of Aber-
deem, and one time deputy sheriff
who did some effective work with
revenue officers in Eastern North
Carolina rounding up blockade dis
tillers.
The former officer was arreste'
!, while the last December term OF
+ court was in session on charge OF
: removing and concealing, retailing
and for violation of the national Pre-
I hibition act, fifteen gallons Of Whis
key having been found on the porch
of his home A plea of guilty was
entered by Swafford.
al Among the large number OF wit
nesses testifying against Swaffore
r was Henry A Page, state chairman
Al of the Fair Price Committee, who
told of the bad reputation OF the
! man with respect to liquor selling
in Aberdeen.
The seven Raleigh merchants
against whom the Federal grand
Jury has returned true bills OF IN
dictment for alleged illicit dealing
in the handling of sugar, three o
who are also charged with consplr
el acy, may be tried at the Februar!
: term of Federal Court
t In the indictments charging th'
d merchants with profiteering the bill
8 sets forth that during the exlstenc'
t of a state of war" they unlaWfull.
: and willingly made an unjust an
: unreasonable charge for quantities
? of sugar sold in violation of the &C
d of Congress approved August 10,
81 1917, to preserve and control tn