Twenty five or more prominent young men about town have been dragged into the case of Ethel Morris against Roscoe Smith which was docketed for trial in the Superior Court of Pasquotank County as this newspaper went to press yesterday.
Ethel Morris, 22 years old, in suing Smith for $200 which is what she claims it cost her to have a baby by him and bury the baby, the baby having died t birth. Roscoe Smith, a youth of about 20 years, who graduated at the Elizabeth City High School last year, says it isn’t his baby and intimates that a person who gets a finger cut in a saw should be so cocksure which tooth of the saw cut him—or her. Young Smith is now a resident of Norfolk and it is said that he is particularly embarrassed because he is engaged to marry another girl at the time.
And so 25 or more fellows have been summoned as witnesses in the case; some by the plaintiff, some by the defendant. It is purposed to prove the character of the plaintiff by some; others are up in the air as to what’s going to be proved by them or about them. It is said that an effort will be made to show that any one of the number of young men about town might have been the father of the Morris girl’s baby. The case has created a panic among a number of young men and given local scandal mongers a luscious mouthful. The Southern Hotel corner chorus is singing dolefully “Ethel Don’t You Pa-Pa Me.”
From the front page of Elizabeth City Independent, Feb. 15, 1924
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