While Letter May Have Been Mailed from Lumberton, Captive Men Not Being Held in County 'Mountains," Dec. 13, 1924

Mountaineers Don’t Flourish in Robeson. . . County Can Prove It Is Not Guilty of Holding Two Jersey Men Captive

Lumberton, Dec. 11—Local officers have been unable to locate any one mailing a letter here for two Newark, N.J. men which stated that the men were being held captives. The two men, Robert Scully and Frank Williams, according to a dispatch last night, were supposed to be held by moonshiners.

It was stated in a copy of the letter received here that the man did not know where they were but that they were in some mountains of Georgia or Florida. The fact that they were in mountains relieved Robeson county of any guilt in the matter.

Officers believe that if the letter was genuine, it was handed to the negro boy who either brought the letter to Lumberton or mailed it, or gave it to some passing tourist who brought it on to Lumberton.

From page 6 of The Concord Daily Tribune, Saturday, Dec. 13, 1924

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