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Friday, July 2, 2021

Syrian Driver Beaten and Robbed, July 2, 1921

Jim Norman, Syrian, Was Badly Beaten

Statesville, July 2—Jim Norman of Concord, a native Syrian, was found with his hands bound and seriously injured on the Buffalo Shoals road near the Catawba river Friday afternoon about 2 o’clock.

Norman operated as public service car at Concord. He says two men at Concord engaged him to bring them to Statesville. On the road to Buffalo Shoals the passengers directed him to turn off on a branch road. When they reached an old abandoned house, Norman was ordered to stop his car. He was hit over the head and face, and ordered out of his car. He was forced to go into the old house, where he was gagged, bound hand and foot, and robbed and left bleeding. His assailants took from Norman about $100 in cash besides several checks, and left with his seven-passenger Nash car over the highway toward Newton and Hickory.

Norman later managed to release his feet and was able to make his way for about a half mile to the main road, where he was found by E.L. Martin, who operates the Long Island Mills truck. Mr. Martin untied the man’s hands, took him to a nearby house, and notified Sheriff Alexander, who with the county physician, Dr. McElwee, hurried to the place and brought the wounded man to Statesville for medical treatment.

Officers got busy at once on the trail of the robbers, who were seen passing through Lenoir yesterday afternoon about 4 o’clock.

From The Charlotte News, Saturday, July 2, 1921.

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