The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-03-18
HIS PERILOUs POSITION.
Determined to Succeed, Rely
ing on the Herald.
A Prisoner In the Heart of
ScufIletOwn.
Flight or Death of Henry Berry
LoWery.
THE GANG REDUCED TO THREE.

WILMINGTON, N. G., March II, 1872.
To-day being Sunday there was no train on
the Wilmington, Charlotte and Rutherford
road, and consequently there is no later intel
lgence from your correspondent, who is re-
ported TO be prisoner in the hands of the
Lowery outlaws. The latest intelligence from
him prior to his capture is best related by
gentleman with whom he had
CONVERSATION ON THE TRAIN
just before leaving it for the rendezvous Of the
rigauds. In substance it is as follows -
81 came down the road on Thursday last.
The correspondent got on at Shoe Heel depot.
thought he was trader or merchant, but
spondent. He told me that he had been spe-
cially despatched by the HERALD from New
York with instructions to effect
AN INTERVIEW WITH THE LowERYs,
and was determined to accomplish the obj ect
went up the road on Wednesday and had
stopped at Shoe Heel that night, where he
had been busy prosecuting inquiries in regar d
to the outlaws. He had earnestly endeavored
to find some one who would carry letter
from him to Henry Berry Lowery, but no one
could be induced to take the message for any
amount of money. He said he was
DETERMINED TO SEE LowERY
If 1t took him month to accomplish that OBJ
ject. He had no fear of the consequences to
himself, as he would announce himself spe,
cial commissioner of the HERALD and rely
upon the prestige of that great journal to
carry him safely through. I advised him to
give up the rash attempt, which was looked
upon by everybody on the train as foolhardy
and dangerous in the extreme. recalled the
FATE OF THE DETECTTvR, SAUNDERS,
so graphically reported in tho HERALD by
him that these outlaws were very suspicious
as well as vindctive; but it had no effect
upon him. He was determined to persevere
in the duty for which be had been detailed.
He got off the train alone at Eureka, eight
miles from Shoe Heel, and three miles above
Moss Neck, right in
THE HEART OF sCUFFLETowN.
He got on the train about forty five minutes
past nine o'clock, and it was fifteen minutes
past ten when he left it and started off foot
on his perilous mission"
This was oil this gentleman knew or could
tell about him. His safety is considered very
doubtful here, and along the line of the rail-
road, where the desperate and cruel character
of the outlaw is we'll known. A false step or
the slightest inadvertence, it is feared,
WILL COST HIM HIS LIFE.
The merest suggestion from any source that
he was playing them false or would betray
them would be fatal to him. The tortures
and cruel death of Saunders, the detective,
would be repeated In his case, and nothing
would save him.
FLIGHT OR DEATH OF THE LEADER.
Henry Berry Lowery is either dead or has
fed the country. One opinion is that he has
taken advantage Of the money obtained in the
late large robbery at Lumberton and gone
abroad. The latest report, said to be state
ment made by his brother, Sinclair Lowery,
is, that one day last week Henry Berry was
engaged in cleaning ont a double-barrelled
gun, one barrel of which was loaded. While
in the act the hammer of the loaded barrel
caught in his clothing, and the barrel was
discharged, the load entering under his chin
and passing through his brain,
PRODUCING INSTANT DEATH.
This Is only o vague and very untrust-
worthy rumor, however. If Henry Berry
Lowery is dead or has left the country, and
if Boss Strong has in reality been sent to the
happy hunting grounds Of his fathers, the
number of this notorious gang Of desperadoes
will have been reduced to three, VIII
Stephen Lowery, Tom Lowery and Andrew
Strong George Applewhite, reported to
have been killed some time during the early
part Of last year, but who subse quently made