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Failure on the part of the state to have an important witness pres ent at this term of support here, some chanted in an era against three locals . Willie Phiffer and Marie and Jim Nelson, being declared a mistrial and the case being calendared for the first trial during the March 13, 1946 term. A similar charge against John Archie, all of which grew out of the poison alcohol deaths of 11 local Negroes, has not been dis posed of but court officials ex pressed the opinion that his case may be continued also. All four cases have been postponed twice before. Jim Nelson and his wife, Marie Nelson, are alleged to have sold poisonous alcohol to William Baldwin, one of them who died; Phiffer is alonel to have stolen the poisonous alcohol from Alma Desk company and selling it to the Nelsons; and Archie is to have given some of the a 1 to Charlie Davis, another Negro who died as a result of drinking the poisoned whisky. In trial at the noon recess was the case of Ben Lassiter, local Ne gro charged with escape, attempt ed larceny, and larceny. Lassiter, who was serving a term at the county farm, escaped while work ing at the county sanatorium. Al so he is alleged to have stolen 100 pounds of sugar from the sana torium and authorities said, was captured as he attempted to steal an additional 150 pounds of sugar. Earl Auman, 18-year-old youth recently discharged from the na vy, was found not guilty of the larceny of an automobile. Allman contended that he rode in the car at the invitation of “a soldier whose name I do not know and that when the soldier ran the car into a ditch and abandoned it he remained with the car “to watch it.” Rufus Cathey, Negro, was found guilty yesterday afternoon of lar ceny from the person of Margaret Cherry, another Negro. Judgment has not been entered as yet. He was charged with taking jewelery valued at 880 from the Negro wo man. William Lane, charged with nonsupport of an illegitimate child was ordered by the court to pay $3.50 each week toward the child’s support. Paul Mangum and William Kyles Mangum, Greensboro resi dents, were each given 60 days, suspended upon payment of court costs, for affray and public drunk enness. Both men were ordered to stay away from High Point. They appealed from 60 day road sen tences imposed by Judge D. C. MacRae in municipal court. In November, 1944, William Kyles Mangum was sentenced to 90 days on three counts In the local court, that sentence also was appealed to superior court and authorities here said no time was served. At present he has a drunk charge pending in the local court sched uled to be heard December 17.
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High Point Enterprise
High Point, North Carolina, US
Wed, Dec 12, 1945
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