I don’t even know what to say about this, except that the accused were teenagers and perhaps on a lark. Roosevelt Hines, who was about 14, was sentenced to six months on a roadwork chain gang. Vance James was sentenced to 90 days “on the roads.”

Wilson Daily Times, 12 December 1940.

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• Roosevelt Hines — in the 1930 census of Cross Roads township, Wilson County: farmer Robert Hines, 24; wife Alberta, 25; and children Roosevelt, 4, and William H., 2.
• Vance James — in the 1940 census of Wilson, Wilson County: at 517 Walnut Street, Doshia James, [age illegible]; children Augusta J., 27, Inez J., 25, Pauline, 24, DeWitt, 22, Bessie Lee, 18, Vance, 15, Helen, 12, and Joseph, 10; and grandchildren Addie, 10, Mary L., 8, and Rupert, 17.