A report received here yesterday told of a harrowing experience recently undergone by Miss Sarah Gwynn, a member of the New Bern school faculty last year and the year before, on a motor trip between Greensboro and Greenville, S.C., with a party of friends when they were fired on by what were thought to be prohibition officers.
Miss Gwynn and her companions were passing along a state highway when men, presumably prohibition officers, stepped out and ordered them to halt. The driver of the machine paid no attention to the demand and proceeded on his way. A second later a volley of bullets struck the fenders and body of the car.
All in the machine escaped without injury, but the car was veritably “shot to pieces,” according to a local man who saw it in Greensboro shortly after the affair.
From the front page of the New Bernian, Sunday, June 10, 1923
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