Goldsboro, Sept. 21—All precedent is being broken here in the trial of C.B. Aycock, wealthy Wayne County farmer, whose lands and estates are valued at $50,000, on a charge of attempting to kidnap Estelle Sorrell, aged 16, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Sorrell, farm tenants, at Pikesville. Far from trying to force their daughter to marry a wealthy man, they beat her unmercifully, according to evidence brought out at the trial, because she wanted to.
Timidly, shyly, effectively, she told her story on the stand of her affection for Aycock and of how she had intended to marry him. Pistols, rifles and a code of signals have played an important part in the trial today.
Sorrell admits that with five neighbors, armed with pistols, he guarded and held his home throughout the night Joe Pete, Perry Smith, aged 35, and Kerby Sam, friends of Aycock, who came to the Sorrell home in Aycock’s Ford ostensibly to arrange a meeting.
Aycock had been ordered from Sorrell’s home on Estelle’s birthday, June 27. They then corresponded, using the mails and later a coffee pot in the field for a post office.
The girl said her parents' objections were that Aycock was too old and that he had cider.
From The Mount Airy News, Thursday, September 28, 1922
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