NUMBER IS TRENTON, N. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1960 VOLUME XII
Guilty Pleas End Trials of
Four on Bawdy House Charges
After two days of hearings and
ore r ight session before a Nash
-County jury last week in Lenoir
County Superior Court four de
* fendants involved in numerous
charges that grew out of a bawdy
bouse fight soutn oi Kinston on
April 2S.h pled nolo entendre and
were handed heavy probationary
sentences by , Presiding Judge
Joseph Parker.
The .principal delendant, Mrs.
®m'ce Rhodes McLaiwhorn, drew
the heaviest sentence. She was
charged with assaulting with a
deadly weapon with intent to kill
upon Prostitute Aileen Hopkins
Simpson, attempted bribery of two
■deputies, 'and operating a house of
•prostitution.
Mrs. McLawiiom was given a 5
to-7 year prison term suspended
upon the conation that she remain
on probation for a five-year period,
pay all court costs in all cases,
pay a $500 attorney fee for a pad
lock procedure that had been in
stituted against her “tourist court,"
pay $5,GOO in damages to the wo
man whQ was badly beaten, and
upon the final stipulation that for
a two-year period she have nothing
to do with the operation of the
tourist court but that she be per
mitted to visit it once a month to
check on whether it was being
maintained properly.
Mirs. McLawhorn’s adopted son,
Jimmy, was given a 2-to-3 year
prison term. Bonnie Faye Carter,
another, prostitute, was give®. the
same sentence and Eugene Elling
ton was given a 3-to-5 year term.
Each of these jail terms was su
spended upon condition of a 5
year probation period.
This consent judgment which was
(worked out late Thursday night
cancelled all of the criminal and
civil actions in the court that grew
Pre-School Planning
Meet Held by Jones
Central FHA Members
Before the opening of school this
year Future Home Makers Mar
garet Jones, Rebecca Foscue, Ann
Jarman, Martha Pruitt and Mary
Elizabeth West met-with Home Be
Teacher Mps. Alma Phillips to
make plans for the 1960-61 school
year.
Two of the four suggested ob
jectives were adopted and FHA
programs for the year were map
ped out to include panel discus
sions, role playing, skits, demon
strations, f.Lms and a guest speak
er. A number of speakers will be
invited to speak on “'Education
Versus Marriage for high school
students. “
Goals for the year include writ
ing a club constitut'on, revising
j scrap books and writing a club his
tory.
Land Transfers
Real estate transfers recorded
in the office of Jones County Regis
ter of Deeds Mrs. D. W. Koonce in
the past week included the follow
ing:
' Williaim T. Kinsey to Isaac Mur
phy one tract in Chinquapin Town
ship.
Charlotte White to Edward H.
Atkinson one tract in Polloeksville
Township.
Lem S. Meiggs 'to Albert B.
Bracey one lot in Maysville.
Catherine E. Foy to T. D. Foy
seven acres and to Etta Foy Miller
eight acres in Trenton Township.
out of this April brawl.
King-Sized Still is
Destroyed Tuesday in
Tuckahoe Township
Tuesday afternoon Jones County
Deputies Roy Mallard and Milton
Arthur, assisted by Lenoir County
A1RC Officers Clarence Bland, Paul
Young and Leo Harper destroyed
a large whisky still in Tuckahoe
Township on the old Goldsboro
Lumber Company farm.
The operators of the still ap
parently had gotten a trifle ner
vous with their “industry” since
the still was partially taken down,
indicating that it was scheduled to
be moved within a day or two.
A 1000-gallon steam-type still,
20 mash vats of 220-gallon capa
city were destroyed by dynamite.
Such a still could make close to
1,000 gallons, of stumphole whisky
per week. /
Drainage District
Litigation Ended
In Brief Session
. A day and a half of Jones County
Superior Court was all needed to
put an end to all but one of the
long-pending laiw suits that were
a hanghover from Jones-Lenoir
Drainage District No. 1.
Consent judgments were enter
ed that accepted the findings of
Referee L. A..Stith of New Bern
by Mr. and Mrs. Lynn C. Farrell
of Kinston, Mrs. Delia M.. Zimmer
man Pro®
Milla rd F.
four.
The final suit that involved Mr.
and Mrs. L. E. Emerson had to go
over for future settlement because
of the death of Emerson, which
causes the action to have to be
made against the adminstrator of
his estate.
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ThreeRobbers Admit
Marine’s Murder on
July 21 st Near Kinston
Three young men held since July
123rd in Washington, D. C. for arm
ed robbery have admitted the mur
der of Sgt. Robert Eugene Scbroe
der near Kinston on the night of
July 21st.
Harold A. Smith, 20, native of
Memphis, Tenn., and dishonorable
dischargee from the Marine corps;
has admitted the actual murder
and Eugene Jacobs, 21, of Durham,
a dishonorable Air Force dis
chargee, and Jesse E. Perry, 20,
also of Memphis, have admitted
complicity in tile brutal killing.
In a confession made by Smith
Quad-County Home Ec
Teachers Meeting is
Held at Jones Central
Home Economics teachers from
Duplin, Onslow, Pender and Jones
counties met last Wednesday at
Jones Central High School wfth
Mrs. Alma Phillips as hostess.
The first meeting of the year for
the four-county group was largely
on the 4 objectives recently set up
in a Home Ec Teachers’ workshop
at the Woman’s College in Greens
boro.
1. Exploration of all trends in
home ec teaching, 2. development
of programs that will more effec
tively serve families and individ
uals, 3. improving an understand
ing of those factors necessary for
home and community that are most
conductive to full family develop
ment, and 4. efforts to expand and
strengthen leadership throughout
the prcigram.
After reports from various teach
ers an agenda for the coming
i school year was approved which in
cludes consemer education, land
scaping, housing, Christmas ideas,
Civil defense and flower arrange
ments.
The meeting was adjourned with
the next meeting set for September
21st at Swansboro when each teach
er will bring two future home
makers along to take part in the
program.
to Washington officers and SB/I A
gent E. B. Pearce of Kinston last
/Friday Smith told the following
story:
The three involved in the crime
were riding in a rented car be
tween Ricblands and Kinston and
the car gave out of gas. The first
car that stopped to offer help was
driven by Sgt| Schroeder, who was
alone.
The trio asked the Marine vet
eran to push their car to a filling
station. Schroeder refused but of
fered to ride one of them to a sta
tion.
Smith accepted the offer of a
ride and shortly after getting in
pulled out a .46 caliber automatic
and took command of the car.
Sehroeder told him, so Smith told
the officers, that he had known
him ip the Marine Corps.
This frightened Smith, who forced
Sehroeder to get in the boot of
the car and he drove on toward
Kinston. Still worrying about hav
ing been recognized, Smith says
he decided he would have to kill
the Marine. He stopped his car on
the US 70 bypass near the “motel”
went to the rear, opened the boot
and fored three shots into the Ohio
an’s body—either of which would
have killed him.
Smith says he then turned around
and went back to pick up the other
two who were left with the rented
car. Smith says he told them what
'he had done, they all went through
the Marine’s pockets. Then they
all got in the dead man’s car and
drove it to George Rabbins’ filling
station between Kinston and La
Grange, where they abandoned it
and hitch-hiked on to Washington,
where on Saturday night they were
caught after the armed robbery of
a ®ve¥it.
Smith still had the murder gun,
and was wearing a ring given to
Sehroeder by an Akron, Ohio girl.
The gun and ring led to the con
nection with the murder, and
Smith’s confession last week. An
extradition hearing for the trio is
set for September 28th in Wash
ington.
Wilds of Woodington Caper Clips Bootlegger’s Wings
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Above ABCman Paul Young
points to one of the two bullet
marks left on the car of George
Mitchell, who was dragging ABC
man Clarence Bland about a field
and then part of Bearwell Pocosin
early Wednesday morning.
'jlj&st wee* Lenoir County ABC
Officers , Clarence Bland, Paul
Young and Leo Harper learned that
a backwoods distillery was being
built in a wooded area on the Paul
William s farm in Woodingto.i
Township.
They watched the still, and de
cided that early Wednesday would
be just about the time that this
hewest Lenoir County industry
i maWeaa 3 ,‘and 4 Wednesday
■morning a cat came up to the still
with three negro men; two of these,
igot out and began unloading cylin
i ders of bottled gas that was to be
use^ to fire the boiler of this in
dustry. „ j
A sudden move and the men be
gan to run in all directions. The
driver of the car gunned the motor
and tried to swerve around to get
back pn the cart path that led ib
Agape at seeing his first "still"
at left above Newsman Lloyd Whit
field, while ABCman Clarence
Blend and ATUman Wallace Bliz
zard count up to see how many
charges of dynamite would be need
ed to destroy this new Lenoir Coun
ty Industry.
swerved across a grassy field and
finally bull-dozed its way into the
swamp.
Officer Bland lasted for only a
few feet after the plunging car
went into the bramble of the poc
osih. He was “brushed ofif”.
ATU man Blizzard had caught
one of those on foot, but seeing the
trouble Bland was in he turned his
man loose and ran to help Bland.
ABOman Young was first to Bland.
Two shots were fired at the roar
ing Ford. < v \
“Are you hurt?”, Young asked.
“Not much’*,
patch.
By then the car had finally rany
med a tree and the driver had
Sot out to make further progress
afoot. Shortly after he landed
Young grabbed him.
The other two made good their
escape through the swamp.
Captured, George Mitchell, ten
ant on the Scarborough Farm of
Upper Lenoir County, and a fre
quent liquor law violator.. This is
his third capture at a whisky still.
His car, a 1956 -Ford, is being held
for confiscation and he is charged
with operating an illicit whisky
still and assault with a deadly
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Here ABCman Clarence Bland
holds another inhabitant of Bear
well Poeosin who was "captured"
Wednesday morning shortly after
George Mitchell's still had been
blasted into small pieces. This tim
ber rattler had IS rattles and a
bellyfull of frogs. The striped
character still had enough reflex
action left when this picture was
taken to attempt to coil, and he,
or she. was given plenty of room in
front of the police station where'
Bland was exhibiting it in the early
morning light.
weapon, to wit an automobile, since
he tried to run down two of the
officers, who say that only Bland’s
grabbing the steering wheel saved
them. ^