After his neighbors had searched the woods and dragged the creek for his body for 24 hours, Robert c. Lowry Jr., a Salem township farmer, showed up in his home early Sunday morning. Mr. Lowry stormed out of his home about 10 o’clock Friday night after a quarrel with his wife. His parting words were, “I’m done!” It was believed that he had left home with suicidal intentions and 50 or more of his neighbors scoured the neighborhood for him Saturday and Sunday night but found no trace. Saturday night the neighbors put in a ‘phone call to Suffolk, Va., for bloodhounds and the hounds were expected Sunday morning. Mr. Lowry showed up ahead of the hounds, slipping into the kitchen of his home about sunrise Sunday morning. It is believed that he had been in hiding in a tenant house on his farm and knew what was going on.
Mr. Lowry is 36 years old, has been married about 15 years and has two children. His domestic troubles are common talk in the neighborhood where he lives, growing out of the incompatibility of his wife and sister living in the same house.
From the front page of The Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., April 7, 1922
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