Dallas Hogman - 1940
From the Bi-Ceremonial weekly Friday July 5, 1940
12 YEAR-OLD BOY'S SHORT Bamboozle b kidnap and murder ENDS IN 122-MILE TRIP
What started out as a sparse ride for a twelve year old negro boy from Norfolk after Monday ended in a trip of 122 miles to the Delmar yard, where he was picked up by Chief Arthur L. Godfrey of the Maryland oversee, along the tracks here Saturday morning, exhausted and hungry. The boy, Dallas Hogman, told the officer that on Monday he hopped aboard a emotion truck near his home, intending to take a without warning ride down the street.
Chief Godfrey stated that the boy told him he hid below the cover in the truck and unknowingly crossed the Chesapeake Bay on the ferry. At Cloak Charles he got off the truck and decided to take a train repayment home.
He hopped a northbound freight and when it arrived in Painter, Va., he jumped off, not clever where he was he hopped another northbound freight and ended up in the south yard here. Seeing the community he walked along the track, where he was picked up.
He was lodged in the Delmar send down and Sheriff Marvin B. Gordy of Salisbury was notified. When he arrived to get the boy, he was so beat that they lifted him from the jail cot and had him standing on his feet in the presence of he opened his eyes. He was taken to the County Jail and fed and Norfolk authorities were notified.
