The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-03-21
Thu SWAMP AHGSLs.
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First Intelligence from the Cap
tured Herald Correspondent.
HIS CONQUEST OF MRS. RHODY L0WsaY.
He Attends the Bandits
Wife to Church.
ENTER OUTLAWS ARMED CAP-A-P1E
The interviewer Treated as a Spy and Warned
Of Death as the Penalty for Trsaehsry.
THE TERRIBLE OATH.
Swearing to His Allegiance
a la Commune.
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II. B. L0WERY ON A TRIP.
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Menaces and Vindiotiveness of
the Criminal Rovers.
The interviewer Treated as Spy and Warned
Of Death as the Penalty for Trsaehery.
THE TERRIBLE OATH,
Swearing to His Allegiance
a la Commune.
II. B. LOWERY ON A TRIP.
Menaces and Vindiotiveness of
the Criminal Rovers.

WILMINGTON, N. c., March 20, 1872.
continue the narrative of events in the
unparalleled journalistic triumph achieved
by the HERALD in its determined purpose to
obtain at every cost and every personal risk
by its representatives all attainable informa-
ton regarding the Carolina outlaws who have
defied an entire commonwealth, laughed
at the power of q mighty nation, and brought
to shame the boosted civiliz alton of the nine
teenth century. In my dispatches of yester-
day I detailed the adventures of your cor
respondent who is now in the hands of the
Lowerys, up to the point Of his perilous and
romantic entr6e into the district In which the
Lowerys bear almost undisputed sway.
THE FIRST ACCURATE INTELLIGENCE.
mington is to-day possessed of full and accu-
rate information regarding the subsequent
adventures of your correspondent among the
outlaws, which information fully corroborates
the previous accounts emanating from the same
source. After leaving the train your corre-
spondent boldly penetrated the terra incognit0
Of swamps and forests. and after overcoming
prodigious difficulties, finally reached the
residence of old Mrs Lowery, the mother
of the Carolina bandi:ti, who boasts her
maternity Of the bold outlaws of the swamps
as proudly, perhaps, as did the Roman mother
Of the Gracchi, who could point to no jewels
save her children. I shall not attempt to
describe the perils and difficulties happily
surmounted by your correspondent in reach
Ing the residence Of
THE MOTHER OF THE CAROLINA ROB ROY,
Henry Berry Lowery, in the pursuance Of his
dauntless purpose to give the HERALD readers
all the Information possible concerning the
outlaws. His trials and perils were am
ply rewarded by subsequent develop
ments. Old Mrs. Lowery consented
to carry the HERALD representative
to the cabin of Henry Berry Lowery, where
he met Rhody Lowery, the wife of the Robin
Hood of Robson county, the Circe who has
held for years the enamored allegiance of the
outlaw chief, and the siren who may yet re-
call him to the haunts which he has tempo
rarilly forsaken.
THE BANDITS WIFE AS A MEDIATOR.
At once between Rhody Lowery and the
HERALD correspondent there was established
mutual confidence. The "Queen of Sculle-
town" promptly realized the dignity Of her
position as the mediator between the outlaws
commanded by her husband and the great
representative journal of America, which Is
giving to the world the authentic narrative of
the exploits of her husband and his con-
federates. Rhody promptly consented to
obtain the desired meeting between the
outlaws and the representative of the
wife of the outlaw, in his purpose to make
her an auxiliary to the grand enterprise Of
giving to the world the heretofore unfath-
ENABLE existence Of the Lowery gang, your
correspondent gave q striking exemplGca-
ton of tact and enterprise. He remained the
CONSTANT ATTENDANT OF MRS. RHoDY LowERY,
and on Sunday last CALAMITY attended her to
church, and after the services were finished
accompanied her back to her cabin. A few
moments after the arrival of the HERALD
representative at Rhodys cabin she consented
to bring about the desired meeting between
the outlaws and the correspondent Of the
HERALD, absenting himself from the cabin for
. few moments, was startled and naturally
dlled with apprehension at the sight of
TWO MEN ARMED CAPABLE
who, as If by almost supernatural agency, had
entered the cabin at the summons Of Rhody
Lowery, and stood in the door as he prepared
to re-cntsr. These men, who seemed to the
HERALD representative to be apparitions
OF appalling mien and purpose, were
Andrew Strong, the brother Of the now
world famous Boss Strong and Steve Low
cry, the brother of Henry Berry Lowery
who, through the medium of the HERALD, has
already as widely extended notoriety a.