Robeson County NcArchives News.....Incident at Drug Store 1915
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September 13, 1915 - The Robesonian 1915
Forgot to Leave his Pistol at Home and It Cost Him $5 - L. B. Miller, a young 
white man who lives near Rowland, was arrested at Fairmont Friday for carrying a 
pistol in his pocket.  He was given a hearing before Recorder A. E. Floyd and 
drew a sentence of $5 and the cost, making a total of $11.35.  Miller was in the 
Pittman Drug Store drinking something cold when Policeman S. V. Stanley walked 
in and saw the print of the pistol in his pocket so plain that he just ran his 
hand in his (Miller's) pocket and pulled the gun out and showed it to Miller and 
told him to consider himself under arrest.  Miller submitted to the charge, but 
said the reason he had the pistol was that his dogs were running a rabbit in the 
corn field before he left home in the morning and he put the gun in his pocket 
thinking that perhaps he might get a shot at the rabbit, and after loading his 
tobacco and starting for Fairmont he forgot to take the gun out and leave it at 
home.  

[LeRoy Baxter Miller, son of Beulah Benton McGirt and Carson Alexander Miller.  
The event happened at the drug store owned by his cousin, Henry Hampton Pittman, 
son of Sarah Jane McGirt and Willis Pittman]


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