GREEN NABBED AS FOWL THIEF HELD IN COTTON ROBBERY

Crowley Signal September 21, 1929

Arrested in Iota on a charge of stealing chickens, Amos Green, negro, has been connected by officers with a theft of cotton from a farm owned by W.E. Lawson of this city.

Marshal John Sittig placed Green under arrest and when Deputy Lina, went to Iota to take charge of the prisoner and bring him to jail the two officers followed by a line of questioning which Deputy Lina said led to his confession that he had stolen cotton missed recently from the Lawson place near Mermentau.

The cotton was sold at an Iota gin, it was disclosed. Green was brought to jail here and officers were on the lookout for another negro said to be linked with the theft.