Norwood, N.C., Feb. 16—Norwood has been enjoying its daily thrill from down in Sampson County in the desperate doings of its two erstwhile citizens, Will Norton and his Stanly county fair feminine friend. With Norton as the central figure, aside form putting the sheriff to flight at the point of a gun, shooting his way to safety thru a cordon of officers who had surrounded him at night, posses scouring the woods for him, a hair-breadth escape in an automobile, a stolen car or two, and a few other things like that, everything seems to be as quiet as usual in that section.
The girl adds comedy relief to the high dramatics of the production. The officers had Norton and the girl surrounded at night at a whiskey still. When the man had shot his way thru the posse and the smoke of battle had cleared away, the sheriff’s men advanced to the scene and, oh horrors! the girl herself, and unhurt, willing to testify, as was Mark Twain, that the report of her death was a gross exaggeration.
Norton was accused of stealing an automobile, and the sheriff’s attempt to arrest him precipitated the bullet-bedecked man hunt that is still proceeding around Clinton with unabated enthusiasm. The girl is being held in jail there. The girl is a native of Stanly, and lived here at one time. Norton is a man of family. He was known here as a service car driver in Norwood, Albemarle and Badin.
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Friends will be pleased to know of the satisfactory recovery being made by the five-year-old child of Mr. and Mrs. W.H. Harris, who recently had an operation for appendicitis in a Salisbury hospital.
Mr. J.F. Shinn has returned from a short visit to Durham.
Mr. and Mrs. F.A. Truett and children and Mr. and Mrs. Cook of Albemarle were in Norwood Sunday. Mr. Truett has recently built and occupied an attractive bungalow in one of Albemarle’s desirable residence sections.
Passage over Rocky River was cut off several days this week on account of high water, the bridge being buried at one time under 12 feet of water. This river rises and falls rapidly, a few hours making a great difference in the volume of its swift current. The ferry over Yadkin River was out of commission also on account of the flood.
From the Stanly News-Herald, Albemarle, N.C., Feb. 17, 1922
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