Police Officer George Twiddy, Peter Sawyer, Ralph Cuthrell, Linwood Cartwright and Horatio Seymour, to have been tried for the felonious shooting of Davis Overton Jr., in the Recorder’s Court here Tuesday, have had the case continued until next Tuesday, June 6, claiming that they could not get certain important witnesses before that date. The shooting occurred on the morning of Sunday, April 2.
It will be remembered that Twiddy picked up a crowd of men in town before sunrise of a Sunday morning and went three miles in the country to run down a 15-year-old negro boy for whom he had no warrant. The boy was shot in the back by Twiddy or one of his company. The bullet penetrated the boy’s liver and right lung, passing entirely thru the cavity of his torso and lodging under a rib in his breast. The boy thus wounded was left to die and was not discovered until four days later. Following an operation at the Elizabeth City Hospital by Dr. John Saliba, the boy recovered and was released from the hospital last week.
The city authorities have not so much as reprimanded Twiddy for his reprehensible conduct and he remains on the police force to this day, a menace to weak and defenseless humans.
From the front page of The Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., June 2, 1922
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