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950Your HomeEnters PleaOf Guiltv InwBurglars—Continued From race Onereidkdn.m-is)0id?1*»*date-\lt;\1il.a,ifi-it a thru andthat“likevehe10h-iesnesv-rw*dilfit-inodtoneheid,a shetohis■heIR-*reult•edbreasted gray suit — a far cry from the tattered outfit he worefour weeks ago when he was captured in a pasture near his home southeast of Kannapolis after a 12-hour chase involving Kannapolis and Concord police, highway patrolmen, bloodhounds, a n d members of the sheriff's department.The chase began at 12 30 a. m when George VV Armstrong, Jr, and a friend. Max Stevens, returned to the Armstrong home and raw a man they later identified as Sanders coming out thefront door.Yorng Armstrong testified yesterday that when he spoke to the man. he ran behind the shrubbery and alongside the house, through a neighbor’s yard, back out to Ridge avenue, down block and a half southward, cut in between the houses got away.The boy's father testified he was awakened by a noise a loose horse’’ in the shrubbery alongside the house He arose and went to the front door, hecontinued, and a few minutes'later his son returned from the fruitless chase.Armstrong said he returned to his bedroom and found that $109 had been stolen fiom a wallet in his trousers hanging at the foot iof the bed. The wallet had been moved from a hip pocket to a front pocket, Police were summoned and the chase started in earnest.Sergeant L. F 'Mule Faggartof thlt;: Kannapous police depait-ment testified mat officers spotted Sanders near Cannon High school but that he managed to evade them Moments later his car was seen a' thp intersection of 3rd street and King stieet. andlater it was found abandoned offJanie street. Jaekson Park.When Sanders was finally tured. Faggart said, he had in money on his person, and of this was in the same size as those Armstrong said stolen from himThe officer read a sworn statement bv Russell Coy Perkins ofwho had been held in material witness in the the statement. Perkin-on the night in question, m^i Sanders about 9 30 p. m. a carnival in Concord,cap-$111$109billswereConcord,vail e* a rase. In said thatheataseisos-lt; J .7\ad i asnlr,st-ng.there-mv113-•ticingthetndinktheaidtworigid*lis-ushled■IdsMrs.BuriVtLasting atHill Bapi TaylorsviElizabeth Zrb V lt;Paul Ch;Burialtery. Thithe Rev.Mrs, C teinoon : hospitalbeen in I and serirSurvivihusband Vance atlorsville.polls, R:Point. Firoe and home; fo MeadowsTavlorsviEthel CTg: andchiEi andchiVOWING TO SHOW the cou. v athing or two about petticoat ruic, Marie Wilson of Hollywood acepts the nomination for the presidency of the National Dunking association, a non-profit, non litiral organization dedicated i . encouragement of good rh^er and good fellowship. (IntrrnntwmuIow ;iSIa\Raniek-at.;iri-atan-rart amripftock7766rendn*nrin itThev drove *o Kannapolis in Sanders’ car looking for girls, Perkins continued. Sanders parked the car near Cannon High school and left, saying he would get some girls. ’ Perkins said h w site i in the carAn hour later Sanders lan back to the ear. tumped tn and said, •Let's go. the witness claimed. He said Sanders had him drivethrough bark streets and tha-Sanders had him turn the ear lights out once when another carapproached.Later Sanders took the wheel and drove east for a time, then parked the car behind some corn* shocks on a dead-end road. Per-kins said. Thev separated for a while but soon re mined and wentto Sanders' house and got some quiltsI kept asking him what thetrouble was, Perkins said Allhe would say was, 111 tell you later.’They slept in the woods forawhile until daylight, the statement continued. Then Sanders went to the edge of the woods and i saw some police officers aroundhis home When he returned andtold Perkins thi*. the young Con-'cord man left for his homrPerkins said they both had 1 been drinking some but that ’neither was too drunk to know what he was doing.Faggart then read reports of se\en prow ling cases in Kannapolis during the spring and summer months. Sanders was not linked riirectlv with any of these but the officers said he was one of thetop suspects.In one. Miss Jean Whitley was seized one night while walking home She was dragged into the Melver school ground and beaten but managed to escape. Sanders was picked up but the girl was not able to make positive identification His car was found parked in the Midway section.On May 4 Miss Nadine Gragg was awakened in the bedroom at the J. H Wiseman residence. 107 North Ridge avenue, by someor.e with his hand over her mouth She screamed and he fled Sanders' car was found parked a fewblocks away, the officer said Later Mrs. Anna Lloyd, a widow who lived alone at 103 North East avenue was beaten severely by a night prowler who entered by le-moving a rear window screen. He fled when a neighbor turned on a light by chance, leaving behind the screwdriver used to gain entrance.Kannapolis Polire Chief Henry T Barnes testified thaf Sanders' wife, when asked if she had ever seen the screwdriver, said it was just like one she had seen in a toolbox owned by Sanders' stepfather.On August 3 Miss Shirlev strong, daughter of C. R strong of 108 Pennsylvania Royal Oaks, was awakened in her bedroom by someone with his hand over her mouth. She screamed and he fled out the door and across the road.The same night D. B Barnette of 204 Pennsylvania drive report-ie yard.Faggart m eight m ner-ed that a screen was remove I from his bedroom window.On September 3 the Rev W L. Blanton of the corner of Texaand Florida avenues in Roya. Oaks reported that he was awakened at 4 45 a nr by sonvnnr shining a flashlight in his window He ran to the door and saw an old model car parked in front of his nearby Royal Oaks Baptist church.The car was driven off qu.rkly.he said. After Sandeis capturethe minister identified his ra: a the same one.In another instance, the officer said, a woman who lives on Df Soto avenue saw a hand on her window screen. She promptly picked up a pistol and shot through the screen then ran out on the po; h and shot several more times a a man she saw running across tDuring this penod, said the police received fr to 12 rails every night 1; vous Towel Citians. Since Sanders capture, he added, there had been only one minor callThen Sandeis wife. Ruby, tookthe stand She said they had bern married eight years and had two small rhildren When asked what her hu-band did for a living br-foie h: arrest. *hc said 1 c wasstudying agriculture undv’r the GI bill.Judge Gwvn asked her if she thought her husband was normal., She answered that there appealed to be something wrong with him. but that she thought he nrrded mental treatment instead of imprisonment.Horace has terrible nightmares and sometimes I had to hold him on the bed. she testified in a shaking voice It was hard to wake him up when hedid. Somr’imrs he doesn't remember thing- I tried to get him to take psychiatric treatment afterhe got out of the Army, but we couldn't afford it.He has been aand father. Then ped as she added;I think it disgraces me for him to be accused of all these cases where women are involved.’*During the judge's questioning of Sanders, the dark-eyed defendant levraled that he was shot in the left shoulder once at Durham. He said he was shot from a house as he walked down a public alley at msht but that the shooter never appeared.Then the judge paused looked at the court reporter. Miss Minnie Lee Hoover of Asheboro. and said; Make this entry. Let the defendant be confined in the State prison for the term of 20 years, and let him be given acomplete mental examination by prison doctor* Sanders moaned, slumped to hisseat, put his arms around hi* wife and burst into muffled but loud sobs. His mother her shoulder* heaving, held a handkerchiefto her face.A few minutes later the two women helped the convicted burglar to his feet and out the door leading to the jail.ottu:Ottur8-year-ianelin his Paul fimwa fate vestgood husband her eyes snap-l)lt;l)raIfSFDR's \auieInto SquabbleA r m -Arm-drive.KING BACKNEW YORK Oct. 19 —0Jp — Gov Thomas E. Dewey dragged the late Frank1 in D. Roosevelt's personal financ°s into New York's bitter gubernatorial campaign today with a claim politicalfriends paid-off a $200,000 debtfor the late president in 1928.Dewey brought up the Roosevelt. angle, in an effort to soften charges that 11 -Gov. Joe R Hanlex was promised financial help if he would run this year against U. S. Senator Herbert H Lehman. Dewey said Mr. Roosevelt vvould not agree to run for governor of New York in 1928 unless his friends cleared his obligations for de.elonment of *theRr
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Kannapolis Daily Independent
Kannapolis, North Carolina, US
Thu, Oct 19, 1950
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