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State Will Locate Large Game Preserve
On Part Of Randolph County Home Tract
Decision Reached Friday At
Meeting: Of Game Commission
In Asheboro*
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To Raise Pheasants
Turkeys And Quail
First Cost To Be Nearly $20,000
And Annual Expenses About
$8,000.
Randolph -is practically assured of
a State Game Farm to be located on
one hundred acres of the county home
tract and that part of the Hammer
lands lying between the old plank
road and Route 70 fronting the county
home lands. The unanimous recoin*,
mendation of the State Game Com
mittee to this effect was made Friday
in Asheboro after an inspecion of the
site offered by the county commis
sioners and Mr. Hammer had been
made. It only remains for the De
partment of Conservation and Devel
opment at its meeting January 5th to
approve the project.
The game raised on the farm will
be distributed throughout the £>tate
just as fish are now being distributed
from the five State hatcheries oper
ated by the Department of Conserva
tion and Development. The establish
ment of the farm will be one of the
acts in carrying out the provisions of
the State Game and Fish Law passed
by the last session of the North
Carolina General Assembly. In ad
dition to the propagation of turkeys,
quail and pheasant on the farm and
exhibit will be kept of every species
of wild game in the State. This will
be an attraction which will bring
thousands of visitors each year to
Randolph county.
The tract of land on which the
Game Farm will be maintained lies on
the west side of Highway 70 and is
admirably suited for the propagation
of wild game. That part of the coun
ty home tract was offered to the
Game Commission by v the Randolph
board of commissioners for a period
of 99 years without charge. The
small Hammer tract was offered un
der the same terms and conditions.
The farm will be easily accessible
from all parts of the State, since it
will be situated on one of the arterial
highways of the county, State and
nation.
The estimated cost of permanent
equipment and of stocking the new
game farm is $19,155. The estimated
. jgMt of operating it in $8)000 a year.
To oi
offset this expense it is conserva
tively estimated that the revenue de
rived/from the sale of game raised on
the farm will, at the present market
prices, amount to about $16,000 a
yean Within a few years the farm
should not only be sfelfsupporting but
paying a profit. Only fancy breeds of
quail, pheasants and turkeys would be
sold, game that it would not be prac
ticable to release for hunting in the
State.
The decision to establish a State
Game Farm on the county home tract
in Randolph county was made at a
meeting of the State Game Com
mission held in Asheboro Friday, at
which time the members of the com
mission were guests of the Asheboro
Rotary Club at their regular weekly
luncheon. Members of the Commis
sion present were J. Q. Gilkey, of
Marion, Santford Martin, of Winston
Salem, and E. D. Cranford, of Ashe
boro. Meeting with the commission
also was Major Wade H. Phillips, Di
rector of the Department of Conser
vation and Development. Major Phil
lips assured the members of the com
mission that he thoroughly approved
the project.
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Jack Wright Is In Jail
Charged With Car Theft
Jack Wright, young Randleman
white man, well known in Asheboro
where he has at different times been
employed in some of the local cafes
as a waiter, was arrested Sunday
morning by Deputy Sheriff- T. A.
Brookshire and lodged in the Ran
dolph county jail on charge of steal
ing a Ford touring car belonging to
Van Upton, also of Randleman. The
arrest was made in a local cafe,
where, it is said Wright came after
he had run the car into a ditch north
of town and couldn’t get it .out. Mr.
Upton missed his car Sunday morning
when he went to the garage to get it
out, and found a hat identified as be
longing to young Wright.
Native Randolph Woman
V Is Dead In Greensboro
Mrs. Lillie Cheek Cox, 55, wife of
E. A. Cox, superintendent of the
Greensboro city convict camp, died at
her home on Battleground avenue,
Greensboro, Monday night following
an nine— of only four days. She
was a native of Randolph county, but
had lived the last thirty years of her
life in Greensboro. She was a mem
ber of the First Presbyterian church
of the Gate City.
Surviving, in addition to her hus
band, are four sons and four daugh
ters, John, Don, Henry arid Mary
Jane Cox and Mrs. J. R. Washington,
of Greensboro; Leslie Cox, of Wins
ton-Salem; Mi-SkN. B. Phillips, of
Miami, Fla., and Mrs. Bussell Cock
man, of Richmond, Va., and the fol
lowing brothers and sisters: -John
Cheek, of Worthville; Ranold Cheek,
of Philadelphia, Pa.; Mrs. J. M.
of Coleridge, and Mrs. Louilla
of Worthville.
Ross Plans White
Way F*om The Twin
City To Pinehurst
Would Stretch Distance Of 90
Miles, Coming Through The
Heart Of Ashejwro.
A “Great White Way” stretching
ninety miles from Winston-Salem, to
bacco metropolis of the world, on
down through Asheboro, the “center
of North Carolina,” and to Pinehurst,
the playground of America, ia-in the
offing. Such is the dream of Arthur
Ross, of Asheboro, who would make
travel on this ninety miles of white
ribbon of State highway as safe for
night driving as in the daylight. Mr.
Ross believes that highway lighting
on the main routes in the State will
soon become a necessity; then why
not the first to be through Asheboro
from the Twin City to America’s*
playground? Big electric lights, 5t)0
feet apart, would mark the route,
make one long boulevard for the mo
toring public.
Mr. Ross won’t talk much about his
plans. It is usually his custom to do
the deed and let the result speak for
itself. But enough has gotten out
until it can be put down as a certain
ty that Mr. Ross is working out his
plan. Financing the big white way
will be no little matter. But Mr. Ross
has a plan in mind which ought to
work out sufficiently to make the
lighting project self-supporting to
say the least. He hasn’t got his plans
up to the point of making them pub
lic, but he believes they will work. In
fact, he has sounded it out enough tp
be sure that the great white way,
ninety miles in length, is on the road
to a certainty.
Motoring through the center of the
State with the same ease and facility
as driving a car through the lighted
main streets of North (Carolina’s
largest city will be something new
for North Carolina, but there are few
days which do not bring out some
startling innovation in this country of
ours, and this project may be soon
numbered among the number which
at first startle—and then please.
Mr. Ross had no notion that the
project' he had in mind would slip out.
But he was down Raleigh way some
ten days ago and Tom Bost, versa
tile newspaper scribe, got on to the
purpose of his visit and heard enough
of Mr. Ross’ conversation with his
brother, Charles Ross, attorney fbr
the State Highway Commission, to
give him a line on the big scheme in
mind. Bost says Charles Ross is to
'draw up the charter for the project
while Randolph’s ex-senator is to at
tend to the financing of it.
Merchants Plan
“Red Letter” Day
Saturday Will Mark Close Of
Big Trade Campaign Since
November 5tli.
Big Crowd Expected
Next Saturday should be a “Red
Letter” day in the history of mer
chandising in Randolph county. This
day will mark the end of the big mer
chandising campaign inaugurated by
the merchants whose names are listed
on the page advertisement on page six
of this issue of The Courier. The big
sales event was started on November
5th. The merchants at that time be
gan to stock heavily for the fall and
holiday trade and the trading public
confirmed the confidence of the mer
chants by buying heavily during the
past six or eight weeks.
Specifically, the big sales cam
paign closes at 3:30 o’clock Saturday
afternoon. Through cooperation of
Lewallen and Bums, local Hudson and
Essex dealers', the merchants have
been able to make the trading event ;
more attractive to the people of the :
county. These automobile dealers
have made it even more attractive <
and profitable for the people to do ,!
their fall and holiday buying in Ashe- :
boro. 1
It is expected that Saturday after- <
noon will find more people in Ashe- :
boro than have been in town in a long :
time, if ever before. There will be i
hundreds who will have to do some
last-minute shopping. Some shop- i
pars always put this off until the i
last minute, and many others who :
have done the major part of th^ir
holiday buying will thing of some
thing they had forgotten to purchase
and will be on hand to get that. Local 1
merchants are prepared for these |
late shoppers just as they have been .
prepared all during the fall season to
take care of the needs of the buying :
public. ' Stocks may be a little de- ;
pie ted due to the heavy buying dur
ing the past Jew weeks, but there will
be enough left to satisfy the most ex
acting customer. The values will be <
as great or better than they have !
been during the entire season.
BENNETT, ROUTE 1, NEWS
There will be a Christmas tree at i
Pleasant Grove church Saturday af
ternoon at 2:00 o’clock.
Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Presnell were
visitors in Bonlee Sunday afternoon.
Miss Esther Cheek, of Asheboro,
spent the week-end with homefqlks.
Mr. Roy Cheek and Howard Ham
mer spent a few days in Greensboro
last week.
Of the Christ child asleep in the manger
Dreams the girl on her Grand-dad’s knee,
And the vision is fairer and stranger
Than her picture book ever can be.
Grand-dad nods, and-his dreams go a-straying
Back' through years that have rolled away.
Boyhood games once again he is playing—
Christmas dreams—it is childhood’s day.
Mrs. W. E. Brock
Dies In Asheboro
Death Follows 111 Health For
Some Time—Had Lived Here
Short While.
Buried At Wadesboro
Mrs. Elizabeth Brock, 40, wife of,
Ex-Judge Walter E. Brock, died at j
her home on Park Street, in Ashe-!
boro, Sunday afternoon at 3:30 o’clock j
following ill health for two years due
to an incurable disease of the heart
and spleen- In spite of her illness,
however, Mrs. Brock was optimistic at
all times and was ever active in
church and civic activities. She had
lived in Asheboro only since August
when she came here with her husband
and family from Raleigh to make her
home, but in this short time had made
many friends in the community.
Mrs. Brock was bom July 12, 1887,
at Wadesboro, the daughter of Mrs.
at Wadesboro, the daughter of Mr.
Ashcraft. She was married about
eighteen years ago to Walter E.
Brock, former solicitor in his dis
trict and also later a Judge of the
Superior Court. Mrs. Brock was es
pecially active in church, social and
civic matters during her long resi
dence in Wadesboro and in the in
fluenza epidemic during the war ren
dered especially distinguished service
to her community.
Besides her husband, Mrs. Brock is
survived by the following children,
Mary Helen, Betsy, Flora Anne, Wal
ter, Jr., and Alexander, all of whom
are making their home in Asheboro
with their father; her father, K. W.
Ashcraft, of Wadesboro; four sisters,
Mrs. R. G. Martin, Raleigh; Mrs. J. A.
McDowell, Scotland Neck; Mrs. Buren
Shaw' and Miss Myrtle Ashcraft, all
of Wadesboro and two brothers, W. L.
and T. S. Ashcraft, both of Wades
boro.
Funeral was held from the First
Baptist church, Wadesboro, Monday
afternoon at 3:30 o’clock by Dr. B. S.
Bray, assisted by Rev. B. C. Reavis,
pastor of the First M. E. Church,
Asheboro, of which Mrs. Brock was
a member, and Dr. C. L. Jackson, a
former pastor of Mrs. Brock. During
the funeral service music was ren
dered by the choir which sang Mrs.
Brock’s favorite hymns, and Mrs.
H. W. Little sang a solo, “Have Thine
Own Way, Lord.” At the grave a
quartet of Mrs. Brock’s close friends
sang, “Some Time We’ll tfnderstand.”
Interment was made in the church
cemetery. S ■
Among the large number of friends
of Mrs. .Brock and the family attend
ing the services were several persons
from Asheboro.
Fair Officers Elected
At a meeting of the directors of
the Randolph County Fair Association
held in the office of W. A. Bunch yes
terday afternoon the following offi
cers of the association were ejected
for the ensuing year: A. I. Perree,
president; A. B. Beasley, E. C. Wat
kins and J. D. Ross, vice presidents;
C. L. Scott, secretary; and W. A.
Bunch, treasurer. All of these offi
cers were re-elected except Mr. Wat
kins who is a new vice president
added this year.
Walker-York
At the home of J. A. Neighbors, the
officiating justice of the peace, who
lives just north of Asheboro, on last
Saturday, Miss Ruby Walker, of
Sophia, was married with Mr. Cletis
York, qf Randleman. Mr. York is
the son of W. T. York, of Randleman,
while his .bride is the daughter of A.
H. Walker, of Sophia. 'The young
people will make their home in Ran
dleman.
Mistrial Ordered
In The Snipes Case
Jury Fails To Agree After Sev
eral Hours Deliberation In
Richmond Court.
Mistrial was ordered in the case of
John Wesley Faison on trial for mur
der of Mrs. Elsie Holt Snipes in her
apartment, in Richmond, Va., in No
jvember, by Judge Matthews, holding
i Superior Court in the Virginia cap
ital. The case had gone to the jury
i which found itself unable to reach a
j verdict after two or three days de
liberations. Second trial,, will probab
ly be held in January. \
.it developed-uSOe-evMjpnce brought
out in the trial that Mj^jSnipes was
low spirited at times ..cl longed for
i her two young sons here at Asheboro
with their father, I. A. Snipes. It was
brought out also, although not ad
mitted to go to the jury, that some
time before her tragic death Mrs.
Snipes and Mr. Faison, who is charged
with shooting the woman, wrote a
joint letter to Mr. Snipes at Asheboro
asking details of the divorce which lie
had secured from his wife. His reply
was also found.
Little new was brought out in the
hearing of the case than that which
has already been stated. Mrs. Snipes
was shot late at night in her apart
ment, or committed suicide as the de
fense contends. Faison was in the
apartment at the time, but claims not
to have been in the same room with
the woman. He took her to the hos
pital after the fatal shooting.
The trouble with a rosebud mouth
is that it remains neutral and expects
you to do all the kissing.
Liberty Policeman Foils Big Robbery
By Engaging Thieves In Gun Battle
Fires On Gang While They Are
In Act Of Robbing John
Curtis’ Store.
Thieves Return Fire
As They Make Break For Car
And Get Away—Nobody
Was Hit In Battle.
Policeman J. L. Hinshaw, of Lib
erty, frustrated a bold attempt to rob
John W. Curtis’ store on the main
street of Liberty Sunday morning
about 3 o’clock when he opened fire
with his pistol on five robbers who had
forced the front door of the store
building and were helping themselves
to the contents of the shelves. Hin
shaw noticed a roadster parked in
front of the Curtis store with a man
sitting in the seat apparently watch
ing. He went to investigate and ob
served that the door of the store
building had been forced open. He
opened fire with his gun and the four
robbers in the store made a break for
the parked car, returning Mr. Hin
shaw’s fire as they ran. Hinshaw
emptied his gun of the six shots it
contained, but is not certain that he
hit either of the thieves. Neither was
Hinshaw hit by the return fire of the
robbers.
When the ear was gained by the
four men who dashed out of the store,
the machine was started and ■ made
away at a terrific rate of speed. Hin
shaw was unable to identify the make
of'the car. The robbers left in such
a great haste that they left behind
them a full kit of burglar’s tools,
some of which had been used in forc
ing-open the front door of the store.
Although nothing was taken from
the store, men’s shirts, clothing, hos
News Of Week In
Brief Paragraphs
Short Mention Of Important
Happenings In State And
Nation For Busy Reader.
It is estimated that stockholders
in American corporations will receive
during the Christmas season dividends
from their holdings amounting to at
least 400 million dollars. The Gener
al Motors Corporation alone will dis
tribute among its 57,000 stockholders
a total of $43,500,000. The DuPont
corporation will distribute more than
eleven millions. - -V—
An average of more than 300 per
sons' a day visited the State Prison
at Raleigh, according to Superintend
ent Pou. During the past six months
15,160 persons have visited the cen
tral prison.
R. W. H. Stone, of Greensboro,
past president of the North Carolina
Farmers’ Union, died in a hospital at
Raleigh Sunday morning following a
stroke of paralysis suffered Thurs
day afternoon in the lobby of a Ra
leigh hotel where he was attending a
meeting in the interest of North Car
olina farmers.
Directors of the defunct Bank of
Wilkes, at North Wilkesboro, are on
trial in Wilkes Superior Court this
week on charge of violating the State
banking laws. These directors are
officials of the bank of which Clem
Wrenn was cashier, and who has gor^e
on the witness stand and made a clean
breast of his default.
iery, etc., were piled up neatly by
the robbers ready to be removed to
the car when their job had been com
pleted.
Season’s Greetings
Sent For Courier
“What Shall I Give For Christmas,”
an. article on the front page of The
Courier last week, has evidently help
ed some of our subscribers to solve
the “Gift Problem.” The suggestion
has resulted in entering on our books
some former Randolph citizens who
have not heretofore been receiving
Tiie Courier.
One of our subscribers not only
sent in his subscription but burst out
into most appropriate poetry which
we trust will bear fruit. The poem
is as follows:
“What shall I give for Christmas?”
Was a front-page headline, I did
see;
Still it was the words which followed
headline,
Which most appealed to me,
“A subscription to The Courier,”
Caused me, for a moment, to ponder;
'Are we all paid up to date ?
. Now are we? I really do wonder?
My Christmas gift to The Courier
Is a check, which is, long past due,
I wonder, too, if there are others
Who, the same, probably, could do ?
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If it’s possible, let’s be giving
A year at least, paid in advance
Always boosting dear old Randolph
And the Editor’s happiness enhance.
I —A Native of Randolph.
Many New Angles
To The Shooting
Of Albert Culler
Mystery Still Shrouds The Mat
ter Though Officers Are
Working Hard.
Culler In Jail
Removed From Hospital For
Safe Keeping—Other Arrests
Have Been Made.
The alleged shooting of Albert Cul
ler, young white man native of
Wilkes county, Monday night by Ben
Presnell is still shrouded in mystery
as regards many aspects of the sor
did affair. Presnell is still in Ran
dolph jail without privilege of bond,
while Culler is occupying a cell in
the same place, having been removed
to the jail for safe keeping Saturday
afternoon. Culler was getting too
lively to be kept in the hospital and
fear was expressed that some of his
friends might spirit him away. It
is expected that he will recover from
the effects of the shotgun wound
which tore a hole in the side of his
head and knocked out one of his eyes.
Larkin Presnell, brother of Ben
Presnell, was arrested the latter part
of last week and lodged in jail at Car
thage. Another arrest made in con
nection with the affair was that of
J. B. Powers, of the Bennett com
munity, who was released under $2,
000 bond yesterday for appearance
here in January for a hearing. It is
rumored that other arrests have been
made, but officers working in the
case are not giving out any informa
tion.
.Behind the affair, which was
brought to a head when Culler was
shot, runs the thread of automobile
thievery organized to perfection. In
spectors from the State automobile
bureau working out of Asheboro last
week brought in a number of cars
which are thought to have been stolen.
But the truth of the matter will not
be brought out for several days yet.
.As to the circumstances surround
ing the shooting of Culler there are
different stories. Presnell’s conten
tion was that he shot Culler when he
I was attempting to break into the for
mer’s home at Seagrove. Other
stories of the affair are that Culler
was shot at' a rendezvous in the woods
near Sam Hancock’s place in Union
township, and that the shooting grew
put of a dispute oyer the proceeds
from the sale of .ft atoleh ear. • s. •
However this may be, officers are
saying nothing and are busy at work.
When the matter is wound up there
will likely be some surprises in-store
for the people of the county and
State.
Meeting of College Students
There will be a get together meet
ing of the Randolph county college
students at the court house in Ashe
boro tomorrow (Friday) night at 8
o’clock. Mr. Hal Johnson, president
of the organization, urges ■every col
lege student in the county to be pres
ent. An interesting program has been
arranged.
Local School Closes For
The Christmas Holidays
The Asheboro city schools closed
yesterday afternoon for the Christ
mas holidays and the teachers who
live outside of Asheboro left or will
leave tomorrow to spend Christmas
with their relatives in various parts
of the State. Classes will be resum
ed on Tuesday, January 3, 1928, and
about a month thereafter fall term
examinations will be started. The
local school has been moving along
smoothly during the past fall and
much has been accomplished. The
spring term should be one of the most
successful in the history of the local
educational institution.
Little Chance Yet For
Extension Of Route 77
Another move was made in the in
terest of the extension of State High
way 77 from Asheboro to Carthage
via Seagrove and High Falls
last Friday when a number of
interested citizens from Asheboro and
along the route of the proposed road
went to Raleigh to present the matter
to the State Highway Commission. It
develops that at this time neither
Moore nor Randolph has any mileage
cortiing to it for the present and lit
tle can be done with reference to more
road building in these counties until
another allotment of funds is made.
However, interested Asheboro folks
have not lost heart and are just as
confident of the ultimate extension of
the road as they have ever been.
Hard Surface Mileage
According to the State Highway
Commission, the mileage of hard sur
face roads in North Carolina at the
dose of 1927 will be 3,388. Total
mileage of State highways will reach
7,416 by the end of the year. In this
system of roads there will have been
invested by the first of next year ap
proximately $140,000,000.
Near East Relief
Rev. J. E. Pritchard, of Asheboro,
is chairman of the Near East Relief
campaign ,which will seek to raise
$1,000 in Randolph county for use in
the Bible lands. The money raised in
the campaign will be used in the Near
East largely for educational purposes,
all efforts being bent toward making
the inhabitants of the region self
supporting.
Bold Robbe
Of Friday
Excite The Tom
No Less Than Six Business
Places Are Entered By Tin
Gang Of Thieves.
Few Clues Are Left
Johnson’s, Penders, Reaves’ and
Hurley’s All Are Heavy
Losers.
a nan aozen A.sneooro onsmi
men came up town Saturday morning
to open up their places of business
only to find that somebody had done
the job ahead of them. True, some of
the stores were opened from the back
side, but they had been opened, never
theless. ■ During the night a whole
sale robbery had been committed im
the town, and after having loaded
their car down with merchandise the
thieves were wise enough to fill op
the gas tank to make a safe depart
ure.
Stores entered included R. CL
Johnson’s, Reaves Pharmacy, Pen
der’s, J. H. Hurley’s grocery, and Wil
lard Rich’s blacksmith shop and the
gas tank at the Piedmont'Chair Com
pany. R. C. Johnson was probably
the heaviest loser. Goods to the
amount of approximately $200 were
taken from his store on Sunset. En
trance was made by prizing up one
of the windows in the back wall of
the store. Fourteen empty shoe box
es were found, indicating that the
shoes had been taken out by the
thieves, a suit or two of men’s cloth
ing was gone, practically the retire
stock of ladies’ silk lingerie bad
been taken, shirts, hats, caps and
some smaller articles of merchandise.
The thieves had evidently changed
headgear in Johnson’s store, for an
old hat and a cap were found *.«&*
carded.
Pender’s store, which seems to be
a magnet for thieves same as John
son’s, was entered by the front doom
Whoever robbed Pender’s store stood
on the sidewalk’ in front of the
store on Depot street long enough to
file through a lock. There must have
been a contemptuous smile on the face
of the thief who was bold enough to
perform this feat righrin the busi
ness center of the town. Taken out of
Penders by the front door were boxes
of eats of almost every description.
J. H. Hurley’s grocery, oh North
Fayetteville, was entered by the side
window ind groceries valued afcjpdjt,..
about $10 were taken.
At Reaves Pharmacy, next to the
postoffice, entrance was made at a
side door in the back part of the
building and only a few steps front
the rear entrance to the postoffice by
prizing off the lock which held the ■
door fast. Here the thieves took m
liking to narcotics and made away
with about $50 worth. Out of the
front part of the store, the crooks
satisfied their taste for sweets and to
bacco by taking several large boxes
of candy, boxes of cigars and cigar
ettes, and, to cap off the successful
raid, took a toilet set.
The gas tank at the Piedmont
Chair Company was broken open and
it is thought that the thieves here
filled the gas tank of the car or care
in which they were riding. ——
When Willard Rich went to look
ing around for some of his tools to
repair some of the damage done to
store buildings by the thieves he
found that the unwelcome and ue
heralded night prowlers had pre
ceded him and had taken off a hunch
of his most useful .tools. In fact, he
is certain at least one of there mm
used in .breaking the lock on the doer
of the Reaves Pharmacy.
Just which robbery took place firdt
nobody knows, for the thieves ctaam.
did their work which must have re
quired some time, and left wiflarefc
anybody’s seeing them or getting
inkling of what was happening i
the cover of night. It is thought
likely that the thieves came from the
north and made their first stop -A
Hurley’s, then on through the bare
ness section of town, and broke the
gas tank at the Piedmont Chair
Company open as their last act of
vandalism. However, this is only
conjecture.
At least three people heard a high
powered automobile speeding oa tbs
streets of the town some lame after
midnight Friday. It was heard speed
ing along Park Street and also oa
North and South Fayetteville. t
whether this car was the car rontam-.i
ing the thieves is not known.
The circumstances attending fi»
robberies leads to the suspicion tU
whoever committed them were :
iar with the town. A stranger ■
not have known where to find 1
lard Rich’s blacksmith shop,
would have driven over town to
a gas tank situated in an
uous place in the manufacturing t
trice. There are other angles to
case which leads to the bdlief
whoever pulled off the robbery '
local conditions. Few robbers e
strange town would- stand oa
main street long enough to
through a lock as was the cat
night %t Pender’s store. -
Finger print experts were In
Saturday from Greensboro and
eral photographs were made in
effort to trace the robbers r
means. It was the opinion
expert, however, that who
mitted the series of thefts
ing gloves. No clues were
less the expert, is able,
picture of the