The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-03-20
The Chivalry Angry at Herald
Enterprise.
TOM LOwERY's THREAT.
JUST AS SOON KILL HIM As NOT"
The Last Heard of the Cor
respondent.
aHE's WITH TOM LowERY."

WILMINGTON, N. c., March 10, 1872.
Wilmington is full Of conflicting rumors con-
corning the probable fate of the HERALD cor
respondent, who recently made his perilous
venture into the dominions of the Lowerys.
In connection with the Lowerys, so long the
theme and terror of this section of Carolina,
the HERALD is now the universal topic of
mention in connection with
THE PRoDIGIoUs ENTERPRISE
which it has displayed in arousing the nation
to sense of the disgraceful anomaly in the
civilization of our country witnessed in
the domination of these swamp outlaws
Your plucky correspondent, in the faith
full effort to accomplish his perilous mis-
sion, in the discharge of his duty to the
HERALD, is also the subject of much admiring
comment, though not few condemn the
hardihood which carried him into the very
den Of the untamable and
HITHERTO INvINoIBLE DEsPERADoEs,
the Lowerys. Your correspondent, now in
the hands of the bandits, on leaving the train
alone at Eureka on Thursday, failing to find
anybody bold enough to carry to the Lowerys
his written expression of desire to interview
them, finally secured negro pilot who car
ried him into the heart of the Scuf1etown set
Element, where he met the outlaws. With
characteristic HERALD tact and enterprise
your correspondent obtained
THE CONFIDENCE OF THE OUTLAWS
to sufficient degree to obtain important in
formation as to the recent performances,
present status and future purposes of the
gang. 1t is tolerably certain that the
HERALD mission to the hitherto impene-
trable lair of the outlaws has developed
interesting secrets Of the gang. 1t is believed
In Wilmington, as one result of the HERALD
mission to the outlaws realm, that the
DEATH OF BOSS STRONG
Is an ascertained fact, and that there is little
ground to doubt that Henry Berry Lowery,
the defiant Rob Roy of Carolina, has ter
minated his bad career in violent death,
or has left Robson county with
his recently acquired rich booty for
some remote, and at present unknown,
region. The outlaw leader has not been seen
by anybody, unless by some of his confede-
rates in crime, for more than three weeks.
The belief in Wilmington is that the HERALD
correspondent has become appraised of the
death of Boss Strong and of the
DEATH OR HEGIRA
of Henry Berry Lowery, and that he is now
detained by the outlaws to prevent the mop
perfume announcement to the country of their
diminished strength and of the irreparable
loss of the boldest and most cunning members
of this organization. The appearance of the
HERALD correspondent apparently in the CON-
partnership of the outlaws, but really under
their
RIGID AND SUSPICIOUS SURVEILLANCE
on Sunday and Monday, has subjected him to
silly suspicious on the part Of the citizens of
Robson county of completely with the Lowery
gang, thus rendering his situation doubly
perilous, since he is in the hands of cruel and
suspicious outlaws, who dread his publication
OF secrets, which they wish concealed, aud
Is also menaced by the terrorized citizens
whom the outlaws dominate. This feeling on
the part of the citizens of Robson is to be
explained by their BIASED resentment of the
accounts given by another HERALD corrc-
spondent, who gave HE impartial view of the
motives and impulses of desperate gang of
murderers, in whom the Robson people
SEE ONLY CRUEL soouRsE.
To-day when the train passed Moss Neck