From the July 23, 1920, issue of the Elizabeth City Independent.
Dr. F.W. Lowry, a prominent farmer, fruit grower and bird
fancier whose farm and orchards are near the city limits, was fined $15 in the
Recorder’s Court Monday morning for an assault on 13-year-old Harry Rollinson,
a son of S.M.S. Rollinson. The evidence was that young Rollinson and another
boy were shooting frogs with a rifle in a pond near the Lowry place. Dr. Lowry
came upon the boys and accused them of stealing peaches and plums from his
orchard. He threatened to take them to their parents, whereupon young Rollinson
aimed the rifle at him. Dr. Lowry chased the youngster into the pond, soused
his head in the mud and otherwise terrified him.
Dr. Lowry has the finest orchard in this section and has
established the greatest temptation for small boys in this vicinity.
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