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FRIDAY. JUNE 4.1954
THE PILOT—Southern Pines, North Carolina
PAGE SEVEN
Pair Charged With Perjury Following
Whiskey Trial In Recorders Court
Warrants for perjury were is
sued on order of Judge J. Vance
Rowe in Moore recorders court
Monday against Gurney Cockman,
50, of Carthage and Thomas Neal
Hasty, 32, formerly of Carthage,
now a resident of Florida.
Both made bond of $500 for
their appearance at the August
term of superior court. Convic
tion of perjury carries a fine of
not more than $1,000, with a pris
on sentence of not less than four
months nor more than 10 years.
Directing the clerk to issue the
warrants. Judge Rowe commented
sharply that he was “satisfied
both defendants had made false
statements” in their recorders
court trial on whiskey charges.
Cockman was convicted of un
lawful possession of illicit whis
key for sale Emd selling, and Hasty
pled nolo contendere to unlawful
possession and transporting. Each
received a 60-day road sentence,
suspended on payment of $50 fine
and costs, on testimony by two
ABC officers and Deputy Sheriff
A. W. Lambert. Cockman’s coun
sel, W. D. Sabiston, gave notice of
appeal from the whiskey convic
tion, and bond of $200 was made.
On account of his nolo contendere
plea Hasty had no recourse in ap
peal. Hasty was represented by
H. F. Seawell.
During the trial Hasty re
pudiated a statement officers
said he had made to them
when arrested May 2 with a
pint of white liquor in his pos
session. Deputy Lambert and
ABC Officer Kieth Marks said
he told them he had bought
it from Cockman. Justice of
the Peace Charles M. Mac
Leod also took the stand, to
read a written statement to
that effect which Hasty had
signed. This also Hasty re
pudiated on the stand.
ABC Officer C. A. McCaUum
testified that, watching Cockman’s
home near Carthage from a hiding
blace May 2, he had seen Cock
man deliver to Hasty a “brown
bottle” and then saw Hasty give
Cockman money. He radioed to
Lambert and Marks in a patrol
car farther down the road. They
said they stopped Hasty’s car
within minutes and searched it,
their search at first producing
nothing, but that then Lambert
had looked under the lid of the
gas tank and found a pint bottle
neatly concealed there.
Hasty then, he said, admitted
having bought the pint from
Cockman, and had signed the
statement before Justice MacLeod.
The magistrate set bond, and al
lowed Hasty to leave to try and
get it up. Hasty seized the oppor
tunity to leave town and return to
Florida, returning only when offi
cers seized his car, which he had
left in his wife’s possession.
Hasty told the court he had
gone to Cockman’s home to “talk
about fishing,” and had bought
the pint of whiskey from a col
ored man whom he did not know.
Cockman stated he had handed no
bottle to Hasty, but a roll of
mending tape to repair his gas
line.
The judge ordered Hasty’s car
returned to him or his wife on
payment of storage charges, since
there was no evidence Hasty had
had the whiskey for purposes of
sale.
The Monday court session was
one of the longest in recent
months, lasting until after 8 p.m.
Even so, the Memorial Day holi
day haul of speeders was not
scratched. A speed-watch was on
duty during the holiday weekend,
adding 31 new cases to the already
crowt^ed docket.
A Ft. Bragg soldier. George
Ross, 22, hailing from Port
land, Oregon, landed in court
through an impulsive yielding
to balmy southern breezes. He
had, the arresting officer testi
fied, gone swimming in Ab
erdeen lake in the raw. He
was found guilty of indecent
exposure on the Aberdeen
bathing beach, and received a
60-day road sentence suspend
ed on plyment of $50 and
costs, and on condition he stay
away from the lake during the
remainder of the summer sea
son.
In the trial of David Burns and
Alex McAllister, Negro youths of
Aberdeen, on charges of larceny
of chickens, and also larceny of
gasoline (aiding and abetting in
the latter, as to (McAllister) evi
dence given by Janie Scarboro
implicated her sister, Josie Mc-
Keithen, and Josie was arrested
and placed on trial by orders of
Judge Rowe.
Though she denied it, testimony
of the others indicated Josie was
the ringleader in acts of Friday
night a week ago in which six
chickens belonging to Geneva Mc-
Keithen of Vass were stolen, and
three of them were killed, then
cooked and eaten at Josie’s home.
The three received 60-day sen
tences for the chicken thefts.
Burns and McAllister to spend
theirs on the roads, Josie in jail.
Burns drew an additional three
months on the roads, McAllister
another 60 days, in the theft of gas
from the Parker Ice and Fuel Co.,
which preceded the henhouse raid.
Because she has a young infant,
Josie’s sentence was suspended on
payment of costs and good be
havior conditions.
In the third minor school bus
accident in as many weeks, Wil
bert Floyd Williams of Eagle
Springs pled guilty to careless and
reckless driving of a school bus,
speeding, accident and failing to
stop at a stop sign. Judgment was
continued on payment of $25 and
costs, and Williams was ordered
not to operate a school bus during
the next six months.
Speeding cases tried Monday
were as follows: June Rollins
Muse, Greensboro, 65 mph, $15
and costs; Eugene Delamar Park-
erson, Raleigh, 70 mph, $25 and
costs; Worthy H. Moore, Robbins,
65 mph, also careless and reckless
driving, $25 and costs; Warren
Augusta Foster, Burlington, 70
mph, $25 and costs; Eaverly Lee
Boger, Graham, Rt. 1, 59 mpli, $25
and costs; Mrs. Louise Friend Pol
lard, Durham, 70 mph, $25 and
costs; Roscoe Lee Hodges, South
ern Pines and Niagara, exceeding
55 mph (truck), judgment contin
ued on payment of costs; Jack D.
Evans, Camp Gordon, Ga., 80
mph, 60 days or $75 and costs;
John D. Pullen, Catnp Gordon,
Ga., 70 mph, and Charles P. Mar-
ron, same address, aiding and
abetting, $25 and one-half the
costs each; Gaither Lee Edwards,
Carthage, 65 mph, $10 and costs;
Roland Dixon Tyndall, Mebane, 75
mph, $50 and costs; Oliver Doug
las, Hamlet, 65 mph, 30 days or
$10 and costs, not to violate speed
laws Within next 12 months.
Sentenced for drunken driving
were: Roosevelt Utley, Aberdeen
RFD, 60 days or $100 and costs, li
cense revoked 12 months; A. C.
Vaughn, West End (also speeding
65), same: Jack Shaw, Southern
Pines, same; John Ander Barrett,
Southern Pines (also careless and
reckless driving), three months or
$125 and costs, license revoked 12
months.
Probable cause was found
against Azie Mondon, 22, of
Southern Pines, on charges of
fraud, misrepresentation and ob
taining money under false pre
tenses. Francis E. Harris of the
Sandhills Finance and Loan Co. at
Aberdeen testified Azie had bor
rowed $30, listing an electric
range, bedroom suite and radio-
phonograph as security. She didn’t
pay and admitted to him, he said,
that the furnishings belonged to
her only “in her mind.” Azie ad
mitted she had lied, said she
didn’t mean to defraud, wanted
the money to feed her children
and “didn’t want no relief.” She
made $100 bond for her appear
ance at the August term.
Other cases on Mondays docket:
Coy Creekmore, Jr., Thomas-
viUe, Rt. 2, escaping from prison
camp, 60 days to be served at ex
piration of his present sentence;
Ebert Wall Fry, West End, public
drunkenness, unlawful possession,
30 days or $15 and costs; Henry
Threadgill, Southern Pines, carry
ing* concealed weapon (pistol), 60
days or $50 and costs; Tom Rob
bins, Manly, carrying concealed
weapon (pistol), public drunken
ness, 60 days or $50 and costs;
Curtis Odell Hussey, Robbins Rt.
2, careless and reckless driving,
accident, judgment continued on
payment of costs and damages of
about $300 to Junior Cavlness’ car;
Zeb Morgan, Eagle Springs, pub
lic drunkenness, disorderly con
duct, nol pros on payment of costs
on request of prosecuting witness,
defendant’s wife; Cecil Galbreath,
Aberdeen, bastardy, continued un
der $500 bond till after birth of
baby.
Donald Raymond Nauretz,
speeding 90, careless and reckless
driving, failing to stop at stop
sign, called and failed, ni si, sci fa
and instanter capias; Dewey FTice,
Eagle Springs, imlawful posses
sion, 30 days or $15 and costs; Lee
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Saturday, Sunday
Army airborne operations at
Fort Bragg will be featured on the
popular TV program, “The Big
Picture,” over North Carolina TV
stations this weekend. The public
will have an opportunity to watch
a jump by Major Genera’l Joseph
P. Cleland, Commanding General
of Fort Bragg and the XVIII Air
borne Corps, and several Army
Chaplains assigned to the Corps
in addition to mass jumps by the
82nd Airborne Division when a
special report entitled “This Is
Third Army” is televised over sev
eral North Carolina TV stations.
The program will be shown Sat
urday over WFMY-TV, Greens
boro, and WBTV, Charlotte, at
1 p. m. and 3:30 p. m. respective
ly. WMFD-TV, Wilmington, will
make its showing at 8 p. m. Sun
day night.
Leading off with an introduc
tion by Third Army’s Command
ing General, Lt. General A. R.
Bolling, “This Is Third Army” will
show Airborne, Infantry, Signal
Corps, Military Police, and Chem
ical units training at several Third
Army installations.
“The Big Picture” is a regular
TV series produced by the U. S.
Army Signal Corps Pictorial Cen
ter, Long Island, New York.
E. Johnson, Jr., Fort Bragg, carry
ing concealed weapon (pistol), 30
days or $15 and costs; Stanley Al
len, Southern Pines, breaking and
entering in residence in night
time, court accepts a plea of tres
pass after hearing evidence, and,
on learning that defendant, an 18-
year-old boy, is about to move to
Syracuse, N. Y., orders him to pay
costs, damage to front door glass
in Miss Ritter’s apartment, to
leave within 10 days and stay out
of Moore county and the State for
the next two years; James Sin
clair, Aberdeen, assault on wife
inflicting serious injury, six
months to begin as of April 28,
date on which defendant was
placed in jail.
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