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Subject: John Shepherd/C.C. Reynolds
Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 23:01:16 EST

Youth Who Gave Himself
Up To Sheriff Is Taken
Back To Lafollette.
John Shepherd, Tennessee youth
wvho voluntarily gave himself up
to Sheriff G. R. Rhyne last Thursday,
was taken back to Lafollette,
Tenn Sunday by a deputy sheriff
and C. C. Reynolds, owner of the car the
prisoner stole some months ago.
The young man came to the sheriff and
said that he was out of a job, hungry, and hurt
by his conscience. He told a story of how
he had stolen the car in LaFollette and had
been chased by bloodhounds over a good portion
of that country. He said he drove the car to Kingsport
where he sold it, then came over to North Carolina.
He wandered around several towns and cities before he
came to Gastonia and it was here that he decided
to give himself up and take what was coming to him.
The police of Lafollette were informed and they sent the two
men after the erring one.

Source: Gastonia Daily Gazette, Gastonia, North Carolina, Dec. 12, 1927

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