THE JONES COUNTY
TRENTON, N. G, THURSDAY, JULY 27, 1961 VOLUME XIIV
Loose Convict Conducts
24-Hour Crime Wave
A senes of crimes tiuut could
send a> 28 year-cd$ Laurel HU1 man
to the state gas chamber ended
just before Noon last Thursday
with hie capture by private citizens
in Dover.
The story goes in this fashion:
John Charles Callahan, serving
12 to 15 years in the Greenville
[Prison Camp for assault with in
tent to commit rape in Halifax
Coumfy, escaped from a> work gang
near Greenville at about Noon
Wednesday.
He stole , a car In Greenville
Wednesday night, abandoned it and
stole another that same night in
New Bern*.
Thursday morning found him in
the Saind Hill Township of Lenoir
County, where he picked up a 10
year-old girl and took her to Lane’s
Chapel section of Craven County.
There he raped her, after spraying
her throat with an insect repeUant.
Then be took tbe .terrified child,
back to her home and threatened
(to kill tber and her parents if she
told what he bad done.
The child diid tell and she and
her parents i along wflth Deputy
Sheriff Kirby Hardy Jr. were
searching the area when Callahan
made his next step.
This was .at the home of Mrs.
iPauliirie 'Noble, wife of Clifton No
' hie, in the edge of Jones County,
about two miles west of Dover.
_ The demented iSewtiand'-eonffltiamr
told Mrs. Noble that her husband
had been hurt while working at a
tobacco bam. Frightened, Mrs. No
ble jumped into the stolen c(air
driven by Callahan.
Then the convict fold her he
was an escapee and her fright
turned to .terror. Speeding through
(Dover — long past the place where
She knew her husband was work
ing, Mrs. Noble jumped out of the
ear and suffered painful injuries,
including a skull fracture and oth
er less serious bruises and abra
sions.
Attracted by the screams of his
(wife, a she sped by where he was
Working, Noble [pursued and caught
Callahan, and along with other
private Dover citizens held Calla
han until [authorities arrived.
He as 'been positively identified
by .the Lenoir County child as her
rapist, and has admitted his guilt.
He is charged with 'kidnapping
in Lenoir and Jones Counties, rape
and auto theft in Craivent and: auto
theft and escaping prison in Pitt..
Car Clips Porch Off
George Smith’s Home
Last Thursday afternoon a ’59
Cadillac driven' north on Highway
US 258 hit an island in the maid’s
intersection' with Hull Road' and
went 504 feet to completely remove
the front .porch from the George
Smith home.
Mrs. Emma Barnes, driver of
the car, told Patrolman C. E.
Edwands that she blacked out
when her car hit the island and
knew nothing that happened until
(some time after contact with the
Smith home.
1 "III ■' I'1 "• * "T"..
ONE MORE TIME
Alton Gardner of Kinston mute 2
Was changed, .with drunken and
reckless driving over the weekend.
This is Gardner’s “umpteenth”
traffic violation In recent yearn.
Suit for $25,000 is
Filed from Accident
November 22, 1959
Mas. Betty Joyce Taylor Patrick
this week filed suit against Floyd
Hill of Beaver Greek Township far
$25,000 far injuries she suffered in
anzuorident on Ihe night of Nov
ember 22, 1958 near Hill’s home.
The complaint says Mrs. Taylor
Swias (riding in a oar. driven by
Dallas Douglas Penny, when they
met several mules that ware be
ing “herded’.’ down the highway
by Hill, who was riding in his car
iwith its bright fights burning.
The aampladmt says that Hill was
on the wrong side of the road,
and his lights so blinded Perry that
he did not, and could not see the
mules, and his oar struck one.
In the crash Mrs. Patrick says
she suffered broken neck bones
and other les serious injuries that
forced her to stay in a Kinston
hospital until December 3,1959 and
to remain under treatment until
December 22, 1959.
Child Hurt Saturday
East of Trenton
Foot year-old Joe Nathan Kin
oey, son of Mr. and 'Mms. Nathaniel
Kinsey, of the MaUmnditowa sec
tion east of Trenton, suffered pain
ful but not seiiiouis injuries Satur
day night when he darted into the
path of n ear near half hamer'
Investigation relieved Paul Dove
of Comfort of any negligence in
the accident.
W. W. Brafford is Sued
By New Bern Dealer
New Bern lumber dealer Frank
(Wade has filed suit in Jones Coun
ifiy Superior Court against W. W.
Brafford of Mayisville, asking $2,
092.35 damages for ian alleged
breech of contract.
Waide’s suit claims that he con
tracted with Brafford for delivery
of 57,878 broad feet of white ash
to be used in the manufacture of
tool handles, and that the speci
fications for the timber were not
IcompOied with in the deliveries
made to 'Wilmington for shipment
to Wade’s client in Liverpool, Eng
land.
Wade says he paid Brafford $1,
067.03 and lost another $1,925,32
iwhen Jaimes McMahon, Limited of
(Liverpool refused to accept de
livery of the 'shipment.
Rude Bike Rider
Charles McKnight of 1110 Star
Apartments was charged with rid
ing a bicycle on the sidewalk in a
busines section and with disorderly
conduct after he had run into Ar
lander Cobb of 327 Webb Lane,
knocked a watermelon from Cobb's
arms to the sidewalk and put a
cussing on Cobb for getting in his
way.
First Degree Burglary
A burglar entered the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond L. Bunch
at <07 Dupree Street early Wednes
day through a slashed rear screen,
went to the bedroom where the
couple slept. There he took Bunch's
pocketbdok with $325 in it, a yel
low Bulova wrist watch of Mrs.
iBunch and about $25 worth of cos
tume jewlery. The thief dropped
a carton and one pack of cigaret
tes in the back yard of the home.
Trenton Man
Participates in
Recovery of Astronaut
Pamtkdjpaiting in recovery oper
ai'.uons for Air Captain Virgil I.
(Gus) Grissom, second U. S. astro
naut, whjiile peeving aboard (the
a inti-submarine warfare support
aircraft carrier USS Randolph op
erating off the Coast of Florida,
was Jaimes O. Moore, boatswain’s
mate first class, son of Mrs. Mary
C. Moore of Trenton, N. C.
The Navy recovery force, com
posed of both surface and air units,
was deployed down the flight path
from Cape Canaveral ito the touch
down area northeast of the Grand
Bahamas Island, and was pre
pared (to recover the spacecraft
where it landed.
Suit for $105,000 is
Filed Against Wade
Mallard of Trenton
Edlward Jordan of .the Pollocfcs
tville section and the Dixie Chem
ical' Company of New Bern have
jointly filed suit for $105,000 against
Wade Mallard of Trenton.
The .complaint alleges that Mal
lard on July 6th of this year with
numerous workers and equipment
forced their way upon the farm,
•of Jordan, cut dlown and plowed
under .the entire .1tobacco crop of
Jordan, .estimated) to toe valued a t
$5,000. '
The fertilizer company toad a
$700 lien 'against Jordan’s crop, and!
joined as a parity ,fo the action' to
protect its crop lien.
Cour t bouse officials say the
Suit is the result of Mallard’s pur
chase of a pant-interest in the Jor
dan farm from Edward Jordan’s
brother, Julius. They say the en
tire farm tobacco allottment bad
been in the name of Julius, and
when (both Mallard and Ediward
Jordan planted .the farm allotment
M allard w.as measured over and so
went iand cut down the crop on the
Jordan farm.
Bike Rider Killed in
Greene County When
Hit by Kinston Truck
Eleven year-old Willie O. Joy
ner, son' of Mr. and Mrs. Bert Joy
ner of Snow Hill route 3, was in
stantly killed Teusday afternoon at
Mewfoome’s store between Eureka
and Snow Hill when he rode his
into the path of a Hines Ice
'Cream Company truck from Kins
ton, driven by Foy Ronald Vaiuse
of Kinston route 6.
Patrolman O. A. McCullough
Iclassified the accident as unavoid
able as far as Vaiuse was concern
led. This wia® the 12nd lh|igjhiway
death of the year in /Greene Coun
ty, which at the same date last
year bad nine auto deaths.
Three Marines Held
In Brutal Qeating Last
Week of Kinstonian
Three Camp Ijejeuinie Marines,
taM negroes, ane changed with as
sault with deadly weapons on Kern
nerth Kay May of Kinston in a
fight last Thursday night on South
Queen Street.
May suffered two fractures of
the jaiw home apd loss of several
teeth, when, he says, the Marines
beat him to the ground and them
(kicked and stomped him.
The Marines are PFC William S.
(Foote, P®C John J. Borden and
IPvtt. Harry Stanton Smith.
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Big Still Destroyed and ]
Tractor Confiscated by
Yates in Tuckahoe Raid
uast wept Jones county sneratt
Brown Yates, Deputies Milton Ar
thur and Roy Mallard with two
A/TU officers from New Beam found
and destroyed a large whiskey still
id Tuckatooe Township on the tow
er Goldsboro Lumber Company
famm, which is now owned by W.
H. Jones of Kinston.
Yates said the still wias nearly
two miles off the highway and a
'goodly distance from the nearest
occupied home on the Jones farm.
There were 7,920 gallons of mash
►— 'about half ready to run — in
36 barrels of 220-igalion capacity.
Yates reports.
There were two upright bailers
one steam type still erected and
another on the site in the process
of being erected. Hie still was
practically brand new and bad not
(Tun much if any whisky, Yates
said.
The barrels — used ito bring
olives to the United States from
Spain — cast $15 each, in New York
I City, and a conservative estimate
of the cost of the stall and boilers
is about $2,000. Nearly four tons of
sugar is required) to “mash in” the
amount of mash destroyed at the
still.
A .Ford tractor and trailer were
found at the scene, and are held
ior confiscation. So far no owner
has 'been found for the tractor
or trailer.
Yates says toe believe the rig
belonged to a “big time bootleg
ger” from Wayne County.
Kinstonian Stops Thief
Native Kinstonian Warren Tay
lor,. new manager of a Richlands
bank, Saturday morning knocked
down 18 year-old Camp Lejeune
Marine Pvt. Jerry L. Young with
a single blast from a .12 gauge
load of buckshot. The shooting
came just seconds after the Ponto
toc, Mississippi youth had stuck
a gun in Taylor's face and forced
him to stuff $4,359 in a bag. When
the Marine left, Taylor grabbed
the bolt-action shotgun — which
had only one three year-old shell
in it and stepped out a side door.
Taylor checked and saw there was
no one else on the street and fired,
knocking the Marine on top of the
money and .22 caliber pistol used
in the hold up. The short-changed
bank robber will recover, Camp
Lejeune medicos says, from sev
eral wounds above and below the
belt. He is under guard in the Na
val Hospital and under $25,000
bond.
Whiskey Store Robbed
Two young iwgroos armed with
a 12 gauge shotgun stuekup Wal
ter Henderson, clerk of the Jones
County ABC store at Wyse Fork
Tuesday afternoon and got away
with $153.45 in cash and 3 pints
of whiskey. Henderson and Wellyn
Dawson of Kinston route 3, a cus
tomer in the store were forced
to lie on the floor by the thieves.
They left in the direction of Tren
ton in na '49 Black Chevrolet. One
wore a knit short-sleeved shir#
and the other a tan work shirt
with sleeves cut out up to the
shoulder.
Both Drivers Charged
After US 17 Accident
Highway Patrolman Wesley P-ar
jrfeh Tluiesdlay -afternoon indicted
both drivers involved dm ia minor
accident dm the Lee’s Chapel sec
tion of Highway 17.
Mrs. Shirley Howard Riggs of
Pc-lioeksviEe route 1, who admitted
hacking onto the highway into the
path of a southbound car, was
charged with failure to yield the
right of way.
Fir-ank James Puret of Wyoming,
Delaware was charged with drunk
en driving and driving after re
vocation of his driving license.
Puret first s-aiid a passenger in
his car was difiving, but when he
and the alleged driver were con
fronted -by three witnesses who
identified Puret ais the driver, the
passenger backed up and sheep
ishly stuck his driving Hcense back
in his pocket.
Damage to each car was slight,
(but the ’50 flivver driven -by Puret
wias classified -a-s a -t-o-ta-1 loss.
Jones County is Well
Represented at 4-H
Club Week in Raleigh
4-H Club Week is being held in
Raleigh this week and is being
represented by five members in
jjones County.
Carol Haddock is competing for
Health Queen of North Carolina
and Don Phillips is trying for
Health King. Kenneth Doster will
compete in the Forestry Demon
stration and Richie Franck will
give a demonstration in the Soil
and Water Division.
Wilson Lowery is not compet
ing, tat is attending anyway along
with counselors, Mrs. Faytie Gray
and Beaman Nance. The meeting
last from Monday until Saturday.
Nathan Gilbert Files Caveat
In Will of His Late Mother
Nathan Gilbert this week has filed
a caveat in (tie will of his mother,
Mrs. Carrie Dail Gilbert, asking
that Janes County Superior Court
set 'the will aside on the grounds
that his sister, Mrs. SaHie Gilbert
Williams, end her husband, Roscoe,
used ‘hMiue and improper influ
ence' ancr duress” in persuading
Mrs. Gilbert to make the will,, and
upon 'the further .ground that his
mother was not of sound mind and;
body when she m ade the will on
October 2, 1950.
In the will Mrs. Gilbert left Na>
tihain five per cent of the net pro
ceeds of her estate after all ex
pense of her death were paid. She
left two other sons, James B. and!
Paul Dv, both of whom died! before
her death, each 10 per cent'of her
estate! «
E ach of Mrs. Gilbert’s three
daughters was given 21 per cent of
the estate and Williams was named
executor of the estate. The other
daughters are Mrs. Mamie Ruth
Gilbert Civile arnd Mrs. Annie
Franklin Gilbert Lee.
Nathan’s complaint lists all o£
the .above, who are living, plus
James B. Gilbert’s widow and hits
daughter, Mrs. Margaret Kennedy,
as legitimate heirs-at-law to his
mother’s estate.
Jn the will, which was witnessed
by C. Feliy Hairvey HI, James C.
Gregory and H. A. Tyndall, Mrs.
Gilbert commented on giving her
Isons less of property than her
daughters. She says that her hus
band during his life had done much
ihome for the sons than for the
daughters, and had done even more
for Nathan than for either of the
other sons.
Earlier this year Nathan, and
the. other listed heirs-at-law re
ceived a $5,000 consent award in
settlement of a caveat they had
filed in ithe will of (their brother,
Paul D. Gilbert.