Thieves Steal From Police Chief Braswell of Hamlet and Are Quickly Arrested Trying to Steal from Chief's Sister, 1922

From the Rockingham Post-Dispatch, January 26, 1922

Don’t Steal From Officer

If you are minded to steal, don’t try your hand on an officer. And leastways don’t tackle Chief Braswell of Hamlet. Fulton Lowry and E.B. Moore of Tarboro no doubt are of this mind now.

Some three weeks ago these two young white men drove into Hamlet and stole a tire from the rear of Chief Braswell’s car. The officer soon missed the tire, and began a search for the two strangers. He found them on a back street in the act of taking a tire from the car of his sister. The two were arrested; and in their suit case was found much plunder. The Tarboro officers were advised and the two carried there and confessed to stealing a car in Tarboro on Dec. 19^th. Judge Lloyd Horton this week sentenced the two to 10 years in the pen. It develops that Fulton is an escaped convict from the pen, having been sent there in 1917 for 25 years for burglary.