Simply got drunk, went on spree
Carrboro man admits in court trial
Cited in Chapel Hill Recorder’s
Court for public drunkenness,
auto larceny, hit and run, defraud
e taxi, and malicious damage to
property, a defendant admitted
to the judge he simply got
drunk and went on a “spree.”
Williatn A. Gutjierle of Carr
boro pleaded guilty to all counts
and was given fines and sus
pended sentences by Assistant
Judge Robert Midgette.
According to testimony of of
ficers Gutherie went to the Mon
ogram Club Restaurant, where he
previously worked, stole a truck,
then backed into another car as
he was leaving. From there he
went across the University
campus to Lenoir Hall where he
slammed the stolen vehicle into
tihe side of the building, damag
ing it slightly.
Soon after a friend took him
home from there, It was brought
out in court, a taxi driver com
plained to the police station that
Gutherie wouldn’t pay his cab
fare. To top it off, the defendant
admitted that on the same eve
ning he took off his shoe and
bashed in the window of a car
owned by Jody Foushee. Guth
erie told the court he was angry
at a fellow inside the car.
The court meted out fines
totalling- $135 and costs plus a
60 days suspended roads sentence
in the five case.
Other caes on the docket:
George Mitchell Jr., Durham;
larceny; innocent. __
Robert Ward, Route One; pub
Judge gives two youths
plenty of homework
in racing convictions
'Two Durham teen-age boys
were assigned a hefty load of
(homework by Judge L. J. Phipps
in Orange County Recorder’s
Court.
Convicted of racing, the youths’
driver’s licenses were revoked,
they were fined $50 and costs
each, and they were given three
month suspiended sentences in
first offender prison camps. In
addition the judge directed them
to prepare a booklet on the causes
of auto .license revocations on the
basis of newspaper stories during
the next six month® and with this
to present to the court a written
theme stating their ideas on the
causes of auto wrecks.
The defendants were Tony
Boone Fisher, 16, of 111 S. Briggs
'Ave., and Douglas Edward Gal
braith, Raynor St. Each was orig
nally charged with pre-arranged
racing 90 miles an hour in a
60-mile zone.
152 cases docketed
for high court term
A''calendar of 192 cases will
face Judge William Y. Bickett of
Raleigh when he opens a one
week criminal term of Orange
County Superior Court in Hills
boro next Monday.
The docket lists seven divorce
suits, 18 appearance docket cases,
and 127 regular cases. Scheduled
for Monday trial is a murder
charge against Bobby Lee Moore
of Chapel' Hill who has been in
jail for the pistol slaying last
year of Bill Ellis of Chapel Hill.
Among other cases on the dock
et are manslaughter charges
against Claude Bradshaw, Andrew
tArger, and Charles William Ful
ler; murder against James E.
Caulder Jr.; and appeals of tres
pass charges against several
Chapel Hill Negroes charged with j
» sit-in at a drugstore there. ' I
lie drunkenness; $10 and costs.
James E. Burdt alter, Pitts
boro, Route Two; trespass; $50
and costs; peeping secretly; nol
pros granted.
Shade Murray Jr.; illegal pos
session of taxpaid whisky; $5 and
costs. , .
Francis E. Vogler in, Winston
Salem; illegal possession of tax
paid whisky; costs.
William M. Drenne, New Hav
en, Conn.; illegal possession of
whisky; costs.
Alfred Minter, Chatham Coun
ty; non-support; six mnths roads
sentence, suspended on payment
of $15 weekly for support of fou
minor children.
Milton H, Mitchell, Cedar
Grove, Route Two; failure to
yield right-of-way; nol pres
granted.
Henry Keels, Route One; pub
lic drunkenness; $10 and costs.
Edward M. Kenney; driving on
wrong side of road; costs.
Glenn Morrison; disorderly con
duct; nol pros with leave grant
ed. —
Harry D. Milam, Carrboro;
parking violations; costs, to in
clude $1 each for seven parking
•tickets. . - - .. ..
• Lewis Brewer, Carrboro; pub
'Cool kids' na
A couple of cool juvenile rob
bers are awaiting trial for the
night-time storebreaking and en
tering at Godfrey’s Home Sup
ply Store on U S. Highway 70
at Hillsboro.
Orange County Sheriff Buck
Knight said that he and his depu
j ties surprised the pair^-an eight
yearold and a 13-year-old boy—
as each was rolling a bicycle out;
of the store. They’re to be tried
before Juvenile Judge Edwin M.
Lyndh.
„ The sheriff said the two ap
parently first tried to break in
lie drunkenness; -$10 and costs.
Allen Matlins, Carrboro; speed
ing; $10 and costs,
the back of the store but were
discouraged by steel bars; Then
they went to the front and enter
ed by breaking the glass in the
door. Once inside they picked
out their bikes and got batteries
off the shelves to puit them in
the bike lights. In addition they
took a screwdriver off”the “store
shelves and used it to put to
gether a rod ana reel set, mean
while helping themselves to a few
bars of candy. We job was going
all right for them, the sheriff re
lated, until the law arrived on
the scene.
ON MEREDITH PROGRAM
Amohg speakership for the an
nual Religious Emphasis Week
services last week, at Meredith
College were the Rev. Vance Bar
ron and Mrs. James 0. Cansler,
both of Chapel Hill.
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