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/ THE ROANOKE RAPIDS T 117 o A ¥ T^V \ Picture NEWSpaper ■ M ■ 1 JL- ■ ■ ■ Advertising - More All Home-Print I 1 CAROLINA^ j 1 A ^AB/oi(/ ^»NEWS/wpcr A VOLUME TWENTY-SEVEN ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C. "THURSDAY, NOV. 27, 1941 NUMBER 18 .. —. .. "■ m ^ Driver Death Car Sentenced To State Prison Five Years __._._ Owner Of Car Killing Girl Gets Road Term Williams Jones, driver of a car which fatally injured Blanche Wal ston, 11-year-old scliool girl near Scotland Neck on November 5, was sentenced to five years in State’s prison by Judge W. C. Harris at Superior Court in Halifax yester day. Jones pleaded guilty to man slaughter, and was sentenced to prison. B. S. Kirkland of Whitakers, owner of the car, was charged with accessory to manslaughter. He was in the car with Jones when the child was struck by the vehicle, and he pleaded guilty to operating a car while intoxicated. Kirkland was sentenced to six months on the roads. The child was killed as the car circled to the right of a parked school bus in front of her home two miles from Scotland Neck, and hit her as she was about to enter the bus. She was rushed to a hos pital at Tarboro, and died a few hours later. Jones fled the scene of the acci dent, but was trailed by blood hounds and captured by officers. Kirkland, according to reports, was too intoxicated to flee and was ar rested at the scene. OTHER EASES James Roberson, Negro, was sentenced to 10 years in prison on a charge of breaking and entering and larceny. He was found guilty of entering the store of Ed Dick ens, white farmer of the Darlington section, and stealing an overcoat, watches and gloves. On another charge of entering the home of Mrs. Joe Edwards of Weldon and stealing several items, including a pistol, Roberson was given 10 years in State’s prison, the sentence to run concurrently with the other. The case of Paul Price, youth charged With breaking and enter ing and larceny, was remanded to Juvenile Court. W. T. Miles was found not guilty of driving while under the influ ence of liquor. Prank Monroe O'Neal, Washing (Continued on Page 6, Sec. A> UNLAWFUL City officials today are call ing attention of local citizens to an ordinance prohibiting the burning of leaves and trash on sidewalks and streets of the city. Fires on the sidewalks and streets are very detrimental to the concrete, it was stated, and citizens are requested to re frain from such acts. Young Man Is Burned William O’Berry, 19, an employee of the Halifax Paper Mill here, was burned about the face late last night with acid while working at the mill. He was admitted to the hospital about midnight, and his condition today was described by hospital attaches as painful but not serious. WOMAN DIES OF WOUNDS Negro Under Bond For Fatality James Arrington, Negro, is sche duled to be given a hearing in county recorder’s court at Halifax on Tuesday of next week on a charge of manslaughter lodged a gainst him as the result of wreck in which Mrs. Affie G. asgow Liles of Littleton, route 2, was fa tally injured. Mrs. Liles died in the local hos pital early Tuesday morning from wounds received in a collision be tween the pick-up truck her hus band, E. W. Liles, was driving and a car driven by the Negro. Mr. and Mrs. Liles were enroute to services at Tabor Methodist Church on Sunday, November 16. They turned left across the high way to enter the church yard, and their automobile was struck by the car Arrington was driving. Arrington, said to be from Wash ington, D. C., was visiting rela (Continued on Page 6, Sec. A) I Grand Jury Returns Indictments Drawn By Solicitor Tyler Negro Bites Jenkins Banks, local Negro, had his own ideas about being arrested j by Policeman A. J. Brigman for assaulting his wife and being drunk—and used his teeth to pre vent the officer from taking him into custody. Banks bit the left hand of Po liceman Brigman as the officer was trying to get him into an automobile and take him to jail. Brigman got his hand treated, and promptly added another charge in the warrant against Banks—re sisting arrest. Now the officer is walking a round with his hand bandaged, but Banks is in the county jail at Halifax awaiting trial in county recorder’s court. Bond in his case has been set at $150. t _ Jurors Change Findings In Matter Ten bills of indictment drawn by Solicitor Ernest R. Tyler of Halifax County Superior Court on presentments made by a grand jury at the October term of court against J. Winfield Crew, Jr., lo cal attorney, were each returned marked “not a true bill” by the same grand jury at Superior Court yesterday. However, the grand jury found Itself in the unique position of having changed its collective mind abbut the bills within twenty-four hours. At the opening of court on Monday the grand jury returned the bills of indictment, each marked a true bill. On the fol lowing day, Tuesday, Foreman Russell Weeks requested that the grand jury be allowed to recall the bills in order that the jurors might vote on the bills separately instead of in a group as they did on Monday. The foreman told Judge W. C. Harris, presiding jurist, iTiesaay that two or three of the jurors had requested that the bills be brought back for fur ther investigation as they did not understand them because they had been voted on collectively and not separately. After further consideration of the bills by the grand jury, Fore man Weeks went into court yes terday and returned them marked “not true” bills. The bills of indictment charged Crew with embezzlement, forgery and false pretense. Seven charged embezzlement, two chargd forgery, and one false pretense. The grand jury gave Crew a clean slate on all indictments. PRECEDENTf Court officials said it was the first time to their knowledge a grand juiy in the county had re versed itself in such a manner, and the action is believed to have set a precedent in the Halifax Su perior Court. Members of the grand jury were Foreman Russell Weeks, Curtis Hardee, Clyal Ranhorn, C. L, Tur ner, J. O. Whitehead, James Mad ry. R- C. Shields, J. R. Twisdale, (Continued on Page e, Sec. A) White Canes Given Blind By Lions Shown above with white canes given them by the local Lions Club are blind men of this section, and the club still has a number of canes available if those who need them will get In touch with some member of the club’s committee. The canes are used to identify blind persons, and to enable them to get about without Injury to them selves by feeling their way with the canes. Members of the Lions committee, charged with aiding the blind, shown above are (left to right): Harvey Woodruff, Dot Bennett, President O. Griffin of the Lions Club, and Claude Cannon, chairman of the committee. Others in the group are Mind, and are shown hold ing the canes presented them by the club.
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