Bullet Nearly Misses Charles Meekins, Bookkeeper, at Work at Globe Fish Company, Dec. 7, 1923

Bullet Fired From Across River Might Have Killed

A bullet fired into the office of the Globe Fish Company on the Elizabeth City waterfront Wednesday afternoon, if it had struck a few minutes earlier might have killed Charles G. Meekins, bookkeeper. The bullet penetrated the glass and sped right across the desk of Mr. Meekins, who had just gone out of the office, and embedded itself in the opposite wall. Calculation of the course traveled by the bullet showed that it would have struck the body of Mr. Meekins had he been at his desk. The supposition is that it came from the rifle of some careless person on the Camden side of the river. The fact that Mr. Meekins, a member of the Board of Stewards of the City Road Methodist Church and not an alderman precludes any theory that the bullet was sent in his direction by someone with a vengeance.

From The Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., Friday, Dec. 7, 1923