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September 14, 2005
Vol. 73, No. 37 Hertford, North Carolina 27944
Perquimans
Weekly
Fire destroys Snug Harbor home
MARGARET FISHER
A fire started in a vacant
Snug Harbor mobile home
last Friday morning com
pletely destroyed it. It’s the
third residence in that com
munity to be set on fire
intentionally.
The fire broke out at 109
Walnut Street around 1:30
a.m. in the vicinity of the
home’s front door. A neigh
bor called Central
Communications sometime
before 2 a.m., said
Perquimans County Sheriff
Erik TiUey.
“We were able to deter
mine that the fire started at
G6t
ready
for
Ophelia
MARGARET FISHER
Singer Natalie Merchant
referred to Shakespeare’s
Ophelia as a tempest
cyclone and a hurricane.
Residents of the Carolinas
likely hope tropical storm
Ophelia doesn’t go mad as it
nears the coastline.
The storm has been an
unpredictable one, fluctuat
ing between a Category I
hurricane and a tropical
storm.
“At this time it is (a trop
ical storm),” said Harry
Winslow, emergency man
agement coordinator for
Perquimans County, “but
it’s possible that it could be
upgraded as it gets closer to
the North Carolina coast to
a Catergory I.”
On Tuesday, maximum
sustainable winds were at
70 miles per hour, just four
miles per hour short of a
hurricane, Winslow said.
The storm is moving
north-northwest and is
expected to hit land near
Wilmington. From there, it
is expected to move north-
northeast and brush along
the Outer Banks, Winslow
said.
The winds that are band
ing about 50 to 60 miles
from the center are the
strongest, according to the
National Weather Service.
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the front door just inside
the front entrance of the
home,” Tilley said.
The home was fully
engulfed when Bethel
Volunteer Fire Department
responded, said Fire Chief
Jeff Proctor.
Because the home had
been vacant since July and
there was no electricity
hooked up to it, arson was
suspected, he said. An
arson K-9 unit was brought
in from the City of
Elizabeth City Fire
Department.
The canine indicated
multiple times that a flam
mable agent was present
near the front door of the
home, Tilley said.
“We pretty much can
determine that it was set,”
Tilley said. After that deter
mination, the fire depart
ment turned the investiga
tion over to the
Perquimans County
Sheriff’s Office.
Samples of the flamma
ble material were sent to
the State Bureau of
Investigations lab in
Raleigh.
The property is owned
by Michael and Eve Clark
of Juniper Street in Snug
Harbor. The last resident
was their son, Michael
Jesse Clark, whose where
abouts are undetermined.
The younger Clark has
experienced problems with
some people in the neigh
borhood while he was liv
ing in the mobile home and
has been involved in sever
al court appearances,
Tilley said.
“(Clark) has had prob
lems with several people in
the community,” Tilley
said, “and due to this prob
lem, those people are of
interest to the police
department.”
Six fires in nearby
Holiday Island are also
under investigation.
PHOTO BY MARGARET FISHER
Fly IN HIGH
The Kiddy Kopter was one of the popular children's rides provided by Brooks Amusements at the Hertford
Baptist Church/Chowan Hospital Youth Pavilion at the Indian Summer Festival.
Weather perfect for festivals
MARGARET FISHER
The weather couldn’t
have been better for Indian
Summer Festival partici
pants and the attendees on
Saturday. Cool breezes gave
relief from a sunshine of a
day.
Foot traffic had a slow
start, but by lunch, lines
had formed at several of
the food booths. “The Jack
Lady” Wilhelimina Boone
sold out of most of her pop
ular fried turnovers by
noon, leaving just the sweet
potato jacks after lunch.
she said.
“I done sold out,” she
said. “I sold out of my apple
and peach jacks.”
The pigs feet were sell
ing well, too, according to
Linda Pettaway of Mama
Nae’s Child Care Center
booth.
Camden woman charged in ex-husband’s shooting
The first that destroyed this vacant mobile home in
Snug Harbor last Friday was intentionally set, officials
said. A canine unit was brought in from Elizabeth City,
and the dogs hit on several suspicious areas. The
investigation continues in the case.
Tbwns
mull
polidng
Winfall may
contract
Hertford to
patrol there
MARGARET FISHER
Officials from the towns
of Hertford and Winfall
recently met to discuss the
feasibility of Hertford pro
viding police protection for
WinfaU.
Winfall currently has
one full-time police officer.
Police Chief David Shaffer.
The town relies on addi
tional assistance from
Perquimans County
Sheriff’s Office and, when
necessary, Hertford Police
Department, said WinfaU’s
Mayor Fred Yates.
“We’re looking for 24-
hour coverage,” Yates said.
The issue is in the pre
liminary stage as Winfall
seeks to find funding to
either add an additional
officer or pay the Town of
Hertford for 24-hour protec
tion.
“At this particular time,
we don’t have the resources
for one officer full-time,”
Yates said. “We’re looking
for grants. That’s the only
way we’ll be able to do it,
which, right now, is hard to
come by.”
Hertford Town Manager
John Christensen said that
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PHOTO BY MARGARET FISHER
“They’re going good,”
Pettaway said. “Some peo
ple haven’t heard of them
befbre so they’re trying
them.”
Food was a center of
attention at the Newbold-
White House, where
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Victim
reunited with
daughter
CHRIS WHIPPLE
The Daily Advance
A woman involved in a
double shooting in Camden
last April has been arrested
on charges of conspiring to
have her ex-husband mur
dered, officials said
Monday.
The Camden County
Grand Jury on Monday
indicted Dawn Renee
Teachey, 33, of 261 Ivy Neck
Road in Camden, on
charges of conspiring with
a friend to have Thom
Harvin killed. The friend,
Stacey Bayles, 39, died in
the shooting. Harvin is
from Hertford.
Teachey turned herself
in at the Camden County
Sheriffs Office at about 2:45
p.m. shortly after the true
bill of indictment was
handed down. She was
being held Monday night at
Albemarle District Jail on a
$275,000 bond. She is
charged with conspiracy to
commit murder and solici
tation to commit murder.
Investigators have said
that Bayles was hiding near
the driveway of Teachey's
home, waiting for Harvin
to arrive for a scheduled
visit on the morning of the
shooting. After being shot
almost point blank in the
face by a .22 caliber pistol,
Harvin said he wrestled
Bayles to the ground, got
control of the pistol and
shot Bayles in the forehead.
Harvin said three bullet
fragments - which doctors
decided not to remove -
remain lodged in the bones
of his face.
Monday's indictment
also resulted in a reunion
between Harvin and his
daughter. Judge J.C. Cole
signed an order giving
Harvin custody of his six-
year-old daughter on
Monday.
Harvin has not seen his
daughter since April 18.
That was the day Teachey
took out a restraining
order against Harvin,
accusing him of assault.
Harvin has maintained
for months that his former
spouse not only conspired
with Bayles to have him
killed, but faked the alleged
assault in front of the
Hertford Police
Department.
Harvin has said that it
has taken this long to see
his daughter because no
judge has heard his case on
the assault charge or
restraining order. Harvin
said hearings on the case
were bumped to later dates
every time they came up on
the docket.
Harvin also blames the
Department of Social
Services in Camden for the
extended separation from
his daughter. He said
Camden DSS never tried to
learn his side of the story.
Harvin alleges that his
former wife wanted him
killed because she knew he
does not condone her les
bian lifestyle, and was
going to fight for primary
custody of their child
because of it.
In a warrant taken out
by Camden County
Sheriffs Investigator Jay
Winslow shortly after the
shooting, Bayles and
Teachey are described as
lovers.
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Weekend
Weather
Thursday
High: 85, Low:70
Heavy rain/wind
Friday
High: 85, Low: 65
Isolated T'storms
Saturday
High: 82, Low: 64
Partly Cloudy