By the Associated Press
Elizabeth City, N.C., Aug. 2—John Lowry, six-year fugitive from justice, is in Pasquotank county jail tonight with a bullet wound in his leg. He was arrested here this afternoon and lodged in the jail after he was shot in an effort to escape.
After being “tipped off” to his presence in town the police went to his father’s home. As they were getting out of their automobile, Lowry made a hasty retreat through the back door of the house. It was while he was being chased across vacant lots that he was shot.
The injured man took refuge under a house a few blocks away but surrendered after the police threatened to shoot if he did not come out.
Lowry sat on his cot in the jail tonight and told those who were permitted to enter his cell of his experiences since leaving here in 1918, when he broke out of the same jail while he was waiting to be sent to state’s prison at Raleigh to serve a 15-year sentence. He said he enlisted in the Canadian army after the get-away and served with the Canadians during the world war. He maintained that he had lived “straight” since his escape.
It is thought that Lowry will be sent to state’s prison promptly.
From the front page of the Durham Morning Herald, Sunday, August 3, 1924
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