Lenoir County, NC – Miscellaneous – Court House Records

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RECORDS FOUND
The Kinston Journal, 20 May 1880

Last Wednesday two little boys of Tom Johnson, living near Southwest 
Creek, about three miles from Kinston, found two of the books belonging 
to the Superior Court Clerk's office which were supposed to have been 
burned in the last fire. The rascal had cut out and destroyed all the 
writing - about 20 pages - from the State Judgment Docket, and about 
100 pages from the Civil Judgement and Execution Docket, and had thrown 
the books in a hole of water by the side of the road within a few steps 
of Southwest creek. Some of the "knowing" or superstitious, ones in the 
community say the author of the fire will now surely be discovered, as 
whenever a crime has heretofore been committed on Southwest creek, or 
the evidences thereof attempted to be hidden in its borders, the 
perpetrator has always been found out and brought to punishment. 

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