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