Clarence Cross, 17, Ev Bowden, 27, and Wilbur Drawnorn, 14, all colored, were arrested yesterday afternoon in connection with the shooting at and rocking of automobiles on the Kinston highway at 10 o’clock Thursday evening. John Bowden, 25, and Taft Bowden, 18, also colored, were being sought.
The three negroes under arrest confessed to Sheriff Grant that they had rocked automobiles passing the highway at the hour mentioned, but denied that they had used a pistol.
One of the negroes said that they had started rocking cars when the driver of a couple attempted to run them down as they sat beside the road.
Sheriff Grant expected that the two other negroes would be arrested sometime during last night, and that evidence as to the pistol would be secured.
At least eight cars were rocked or shot at on the Kinston highway Thursday night during the occurrence with which the negroes are charged. The windshield of the car in which Mr. and Mrs. Charley Adams of Goldsboro were riding was shattered, and the car of Ross Giddens was rocked.
Five cars belonging to LaGrange people were molested, it was said. Two LaGrange people reported to have notified officers of the incident were Carl Fields and V. V. Hunter.
The damage to the Adams’ car was the most serious, but the motormeter of one car was knocked off.
When Sheriff Grant rode to the spot in an effort to put an end to the disturbance, someone from beside the road hurled a rock against his car and fired a pistol. Bloodhounds and officers in an hour search failed to locate the guilty parties on the night of the occurrence, but clever work on the part of Grant’s deputies yesterday led to the arrest.
From the front page of the Goldsboro News, Sunday morning, November 7, 1926
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