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THE PILOT—Southern Pines, North Carolina
THURSDAY. MAY 1. 1958
A DRAMA IN ONE ACT
Curtains For Wesley
This little drama, a trile story,
doesn’t require much imagina
tion. Its principal character, a
wet and bedraggled hitchhiker,
should be a leading candidate to
receive the “boner” award for
the year.
Scene: a rural road in the up
per end of Moore County. Time:
early Tuesday morning. Charac
ters, along with the hitchhiker:
Cpl. Jim McColman of the State
Highw;ay Patrol and a resident
of the area.
Resident: “Corporal, I’ve just
seen h fellow down the road
there and he wants a ride to
Siler City. He’s wet as a drowned
chicken.”
Cpl. McColman: “I’ll hurry on
down and see what I can do.” He
speeds up and in a few minutes
NEW SENATOR B. Everett Jordan of Saxa-
pahaw was among the group of highway offi
cials, state and county government officers, and
just plain politicians who attended Aberdeen’s
annual shad bake last Friday afternoon. Hosts
for the get-together were Dr. E. M. Medlin,
mayor of Aberdeen, his Town Commissioners,
and Forrest Lockey under whose administration
as mayor the shad bakes were started. The
above picture shows, seated, from right to left.
Judge J. Vance Rowe of Moore Recorder’s
Court; J. G. FarreU of the Aberdeen Recorder’s
Court; Harold Makepeace of Sanford, secondary
roads commissioner; Lockey; Jordan; Medlin;
Gordon Cameron, chairman of the Moore Coun
ty Board of Commissioners; Voit Gilmore of
Southern Pines; and, standing at left, John Cur
rie of Carthage, a member of the Board of Com
missioners. James Tufts of Pinehurst is also at
left, with his back turned to the camera. Among
other prominent out-of-county people attending
were J. Melville Broughton, Jr., chairman of the
State Highway Commission; Bill Rogers, chief
engineer; Senator James Mason of Laurinburg,
a member of the commission; and Dr. Henry
Jordan of Cedar Falls, a former chairman of the
commission.
18-Year-Old Boy
Draws Prison Term
On Rape Charges
An 18-year old boy of Green
wood Township was sentenced to
from three to five years in the
state penitentiary this week for
assault with intent to commit
rape on a 12-year-old girl.
The sentence was handed
down in Moore Superior Court
Tuesday by Judge J. A. Rous
seau. It followed lengthy testi
mony by the boy, Joe Palmer,
and the girl he was accused of
assaulting, Jessie Pearl Adams.
The State, through Solicitor M.
G. Boyette, had accepted the
plea although the Grand Jury
had found a true bill against
Palmer for rape.
Palmer, testimony indicated,
lived in the house with the
Adams girl and her family. He
admitted on the stand that he
had been convicted in South
Carolina in 1951 on a rape
charge.
Judge Rousseau also heard,
during the first three days of
court, testimony from a 50-year-
old former resident of Aberdeen
who was charged with bigamous
cohabitation. Alex Lee Baxley
pleaded guilty to the charge,
which had been brought by his
first wife, Mrs. Margaret Bax
ley Of Aberdeen, whom he mar
ried in 1942.
"Mrs. Baxley presented evi
dence that her husband had also
married a woman in Ellerbe in
1953 and another in New York
state in 1956, all of whom Bax
ley admitted to having deserted.
Now a taxi driver in Rocking
ham, Baxley was senteiyjed to
from three to five years m pris
on.
In a breaking and entering and
larceny case involving three
young men, Harvey Martin
Dowd and Rex 'Thomas of Carth
age pleaded guilty to robbing the
Moore Tractor Company of a
toolbox, tools and other items,
while James Chriscoe pleaded
not guilty to the same charge.
Chriscoe was acquitted. Dowd
and Ihomas each drew five
months on the roads, followed by
two to four year sentences in
prison, suspended under string
ent conditions.
In companion cases against
Garland Dave Dowd and Lester
Dewey Doby, charged with re
ceiving and possession, nol pros
with leave was taken.
Nol pros with leave was also
taken in the case of Donnie Mc-
Dougald, bound over by the
Aberdeen Recorder’s Court On a
robbery charge.
Nol pros with leave and judg
ment absolute was taken also in
the case of James R. Monroe,
charged with forgery by T. T.
Ward of Southern Pines. The de
fendant w^ found to have van
ished froiii the area and his
bondsman was ordered to pay the
bond.
Eugene Robert Greggory, ap
pealing from a Recorder’s Court
judgment, pleaded guilty to ex
ceeding the safe speed and was
fined $10 and costs.
The Recorder’s Court tiiudg-
ments were ordered into effect
for Junior Hinesley and Tommie
Bolton, both charged with curs
ing and interfering with police
officers.
were cases against Junior Hines
ley and Tommie Bolton, charged
with cursing and interfering
with a police officer.
On two counts Of forgery,
Charles Brown, Jr., drew a two to
four year prison sentence, with
an additional four to five years
suspended for five yeafs.
Albert Phillips Brooks pleaded
guilty to drunk driving and
transporting illicit whiskey. He
was sentenced to 60 days sus
pended for two years on payment
of $100 and costs, with license
revocation.
Mack McCoy, pleading guilty
to drunk driving, careless and
reckless driving and driving
without license, received eight
months suspended for two years
on payment of $200 and costs,
and directed to pay $207 for the
use and benefit of Mrs. Walter
McNeill.
Robert Thacker, teen-age Mor
rison Training Camp escapee ap
prehended by Southern Pines po
lice while trying to steal a car
from Phillips Motor Sales, was,
adjudged an incorrigible on his
record, and sentenced to three to
five years on the roads.
J. M. Canoy, motel owner of
the Cameron vicinity, who
had bitterly fought and then ap
pealed his conviction in the re
corders court on charges of aid
ing and abetting in liquor posses
sion and possession for sale,
pleaded guilty on both counts.
Evidence had been to the effect
that he had rented a cabin to a
Negro bootlegger for storage of
his goods, knowing they were
Mrs. Mabel Lewis,
Longtime Resident,
Dies At Age Of 85
Mrs. Mabel Wallace Lewis, 85,
wife of H. A. Lewis, died Tues
day at the Pinehurst Convales
cent Home. Funeral services were
held today (Thursday) at the
Powell Funeral Chapel, conduct
ed by the Rev. Maynard Mangum^
of the First Baptist Church and
the Rev. Carl Wallace of the
Church of Wide Fellowship. Bur
ial was in Mt. Hope cemetery.
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis were mar
ried in 1893 and moved to South
ern Pines in 1915 from Bethle
hem, N. H. She was a member of
the Magnolia Chapter, Order of
the Eastern Star.
Surviving besides her husband
are one daughter, Mrs. Merrick V.
Barnes of St. Johnsbury, Vt., and
Southern Pines; one son, Robert
M. Lewis of Lebanon, N. H.
finds, standing by the side of the
road, the drenched man, whom
he offers a ride. Inside the patrol
car the following conversation
takes placd^
Cpl. McColman: “Say, aren’t
you one of the fellows who es
caped from prison camp Sunday
night?”
Drenched character: “Yep, I
sure am.” i
Curtains.
tThe drenched one, incidental
ly, was Wesley Eugene Mills, 36,
of High Point. He apparently
hadn’t been under a roof since
the escape and, in the meantime,
had to suffer the elements as two
inches of rainfall, including a
cloudburst, saturated the coun
tryside. His companion escapee,
he said, had separated from him
soon after going over the fence.
He’s back in prison camp—^not
in Siler City—awaiting a hearing
before Judge J. Vance Rowe in
Recorder’s Court Monday morn
ing.)
Receives Notice Of
Death Of Brother
Mrs. Harry Ward of West End
received news Tuesday of the
death of her brother, John Doug
las Shaw, in Richmond, Va. Mr.
Shaw was" reared in Carthage, the
son of Charlie and Addie Poe
Shaw. A number of relatives re
side in Moore County.
'When hay and forage are in
short ’supply it may pay to feed
grain to milking cows.
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John Henry McLaughlin, charg- there and that they were for
sale, Canoy drew six months sus
pended for two years on payment
of $100 and costs, the entire sum
to be paid by the August 15 terra
of court, and a new bond of $500
set for his personal appearance at
that time.
ed by his wife, Mozelle 'Tyson
McLaughlin, with bigamous co
habitation with a second wife^
Danny Mae White McLaughlin,
drew a sentence of 16 months on
the roads.
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