New Bern, Feb. 12—Trent River, near the New Bern end of the Norfolk Southern trestle, was being dragged early today for the body of Frank Skinner, 11-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. John Skinner of South Front street, following the disappearance of the youth late yesterday while with young friends he was down on the river’s edge.
While there were no witnesses to the drowning of young Skinner his playmates believe that he fell in the river. With them he had been out on the water in search of drifting logs to sell to local saw mills, but he had remained in the boat after they had climbed up on the trestle. A few minutes later his companions reported that young Skinner had disappeared, and a search for the body was started immediately.
From the front page of The Daily Times, Wilson, N.C., Monday, February 13, 1922
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