Louis Lawson Jr., son of Louis Lawson of Norfolk, contractor for $18,000 of sidewalk paving for Elizabeth City, and who has been looking after the work for his father, disappeared from Elizabeth City Saturday night in his father’s big Packard touring car, in which he has been making himself conspicuous about town. His whereabouts are unknown. Young Lawson is said to have had $10,000 of his father’s cash in his jeans at the time of his disappearance. He collected $1,000 from the city Friday afternoon. He tried to get more money from a local bank, claiming that he wanted to pay off his men here, and go to Richmond Saturday morning.
Parker Morgan, young Elizabeth City man, disappeared about the same time. Lawson and Morgan had been boon companions.
This isn’t the first time Lawson has disappeared from home. His father, who came to Elizabeth City Monday, told friends that he is still paying for some of his son’s escapades.
Lawson is married and has a small child who boarded in this city. He afterwards sent his wife and child back to Norfolk, to his father’s home in Lafayette Boulevard, and local gossips made the most of it when he brought back another girl whom he introduced as his secretary.
Young Lawson was in charge of the street paving here, which probably accounts for some of the very ordinary looking sidewalks the city has been getting. Inspectors on the job have experienced some trouble in getting the work done properly, and much of the paving on Matthews Street, that was laid in the absence of Lawson, was condemned and the contractor had to do the work again.
From the front page of The Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., Friday, July 17, 1925
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