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Mrs Kornegay Pursues Houdini Style Prison Mission
A self styled prison missionary Mrs H C Kornegay sought to adopt Esthley Sampson a 15 year old boy held in a Pennsylvania jail. She claimed to have reared 21 orphans and planned to take him to her Mount Olive farm in North Carolina. Authorities advised she file adoption elsewhere and she disappeared after being questioned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. C. Kornegay
Esthley Sampson
Turor
Hibhley
C. T. Morehead
B. & C. Police
Ellsworth
W. J. Mays
Esthley
Mount Olive
N. C
Oakdale
Sheriff May
Ohio
Kentucky
West Virginia
Maryland
Piscnen
Carolina
Hayward Hamrock
Esthley Son
Sentinel
Sampson
Kornegay
Pennsylvania
James C. Holt
Kington County
Hotel Grafton
Selvey