The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1924-05-23
AYDLETTPUTS
". s.. IN JAIL
Such is the Campaign Lie To
Make Votes For Aydlett
in Pitt
By w. O. SAUNDERS

/ had to go all the way to
Grecnvillc. in Pitt County this
week To find out that l.. +,
.Aydlctt had put me in jail. II
hadn't gone to Grccnville
might not have known that
Aydlctt had put me i'll jail at all
Yes sir. that's how Aydlett is
campaigning in Pitt.
Finding that he stood n show ia
get several hundred Baptist votes III
Pitt County by playing to the Bnp
list churches. Aydlctt was working
the Baptist Brother racket to a
fare c.yOll.well. And then somebody
hauled out n copy OF THE INDIE
PENDENT and wanted II explain
ed why this newspaper wns not
supporting its home town man!
"Thnt's easy. said Leslie Jones,
Chief Of Police of Grcenvillr. who
Is said t0 he on Aydletts payroll.
THAT'S easy" said other Aydlett
henchmcn. "YOu see. Mr.. Aydlett
had this fellow Saunders jailed for
printing lies about him once. and
80 Saunders doesn't like him for
that"
Prof. W. VI. Hinton. who formerly
lived in Elizabeth City. took 1t upon
himself TO go zee Chief of Police
Jones and ask him II he knew what
he VAS talking about.
"Certuinly I io," said the bic0lic
cop.
where did you get your lnforma'
tion:" asked Prof. Hinton.
81 got 1t direct from Mr.. Ay'llett
himself" said the Small Town
Ovrrseer Of African Crap Shooters
II made me laugh. j hnd heard
Of the campaign Of lying that IL he
ing wugcd In behalf of Aydlctt. but
this was the first real biz lie about
myself that | had run into. Far
away in Pitt County. where things
don't easily get back home, they
are trying to make. votes for
Aydlctt by saying that the one man
In his home town. who isn't sup
porting him IL n jail bird Of Ayd'
lett's jailing.
| do not consider the lie worth
refuting. hut u little history OF
Aydllctt's efforts to put me In jail
here should kill most Of the votes
Aydlctt will get In Pitt, or any
where else.
Some years ago there was nm ad'
venturOus ctss named a. j. Brown
I'm the timber business down here
This man Brown discovered that
the Elizabeth City Lumber Co. tnOw
the Blades Lumber Co.)
desired u certain piece Of standing
timber In Dare County. Brown rot
hold of nn old land grant from some
body In Dare. that wasn't worth
the paper II was written I'll. li'
didn't 90 to the Elizabc'h city
Lumber Co. right away.
Aydlctt was attorney for the
Elizabeth city Lumber Go. and had
passrd on all their titles for years
80 Brown goes To see Ayillrtt nnd
tells him what hc has mp his sleeve
and tells Aydlptt that there's ~
use Of him trying to deal with Ayd
ntt unless Ay,llett would rouri
for his title. \ denl was made nnd
Brown went to see the Eliznbctl
city Lumber Co.
The lumbcr company toll hin
that II his title was as represented
they would pay him $1,000 for 1t
They said they would have to gel
their lawyer Aytllett to pass on thu
title for them. They put 1t up Il
Aytllctt.
Aytllett keeps the bogus title 0i
his desk for about ten days ant
then reported that II WAS gilt edge
The Elizabeth City Lumber &c
gave Aydlett $1,000 to pay Brown
Aydlrtt made Brown give him 4
check for $1,000 and Ayllct turned
over the $1,000 To Brown. the 1--WE
pals splitting even. Later the Elizn
beth City Lumber Go. found thn
the title approved as gilt edge
by their lawyer Aydlctt WAS Onl!
scrap paper. They didn't knov
that Aydlptt had cashrd In S2,WN
on the deal. lie never told them.
This newspaper printed the fact!
about Aytlctt double crossing hi
clients. and published much more
about his peculiar practices. Ay'l
lett tried to put me In Jail. LII
called me II liar" he called III
"an assassin of character" he call
ed me everything under the sun III,
Continued on negc Twol