Dockery Brooks Pays Fine, Release from Penitentiary, July 21, 1924

Brooks Pays Lowry $2,500 and Regains His Freedom. . . Sentenced to 4 Years in Penitentiary—Decides to Pay Damages and Half of Costs After Supreme Court Affirms Lower Court’s decision—Found Guilty of Aiding and Abetting in Assault with Deadly Weapon with Intent to Kill

Dockery Brooks, Indian, who was convicted at the October special ?? of Robeson Superior Court for aiding and abetting Fred Locklear in an assault with deadly weapon on Hubbard Lowrey, chief of police of Pembroke and deputy sheriff, and sentenced to 4 years in the state penitentiary, was given his liberty Saturday by an executive order received by Sheriffi R.E. Lewis.

The order signed by Governor Morrison was sent after Brooks had agreed to pay Lowrey the sum of $2,250 damages and half the costs in the case. When Judge B.F. Long sentenced him, he gave him the privilege then of paying the amount, but on account of either unwillingness or not having the money, he appealed to the Supreme court, which affirmed the lower court and had a capias issued. He was arrested and placed in jail here on July 9th. He is 59 years old and in very poor health. This, with the recommendation of Solicitor T.A. McNeill and Mr. L.R. Varser, private prosecutor in the case, were the main factors in getting his liberty.

From the front page of the Lumberton Robesonian, Monday, July 21, 1924

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