The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1919-09-16
Posse Takes Men and Captures
Huge Still on Banks of
Pee Dee River
ONE PRISONER ESCAPES
Two Cousins of Notorious Henry
Berry Lowry With Four Men
From Greensboro, N. c., are
Rounded Up.

Bennettsville. S. c., Sept. 15.-H
j. Rail, j. j. Newman and his son
Pearsey Newman, white men from
near Greensboro, n. c., Nanny l.
Lowry, of Marion county, and Riley
l.. Lowry, of Lower Marlboro, are in
jail here, charged with operating a
distillery on the banks of Pee De
river, near Cashway Ferry, in lower
Brownsville. The latter say that
| they are second cousins of the noted
Croatan outlaw, Henry Berry Lowry
whose gang terrorized this section
just after the civil war.
This modern Lowry gang was cap
| tured last Thursday by a posse
| officers composed of Chief of Police
| T. j. Cunningham OF Bennettsville; ;
Policeman Chas Peele, Of the Ben
nettsville mill village; Rural Police
man Paul b. Rogers and his assist
ant, Walter Mccall; Rural Police
man Rufus NJ. Jackson and Stat
Constable j. o. Kelley.
Mr.. Rogers got information last
May that there was still in the
swamp, and he has since been trying
to find it. He heard of men and au
tomobiles going back and forth, bu
was unable to find the location
the still till few days ago, when he
got information as to where it was
nf nff;
here last Wednesday, Sept. 8. AMI
went to Brownsville that evening
for an all night search. Sheriff Pat
terson and Deputy Sheriff Henry
Hubbard were in the party. but the
| sheriff got sick that evening and had
to return home Deputy Hubbard
remained till about midnight. wheI
he came home. The rest OF tho par
ty spent the night in the swamp
Before day Thursday morning. the
| officers heard the cutting OF wood
and began to advance in the direc
ton of the noise. After daylight they
came in sight of a small house and
a camp.
Messrs. Rogers, Cunningham,
Peele and Mccall circled around and
| came up from the rear, while Mes
srs. Jackson and Kelley advanced in
front. The party from the rear ar
rived at the house first. AS Mr.
Cunningham reached the door. Pear
sy Newman threw open the door and
pointed his pistol at him. Mr.
Cunningham covered him with
double barrel shot gun, and seeing
the other officers with weapors
drawn, Newman dropped his pistol
and surrendered. Rail and the two
Lowrys were arrested at or near the
house.
j. j. Newman and j. F.. Cassett
were found and arrested at the camp
about quarter of mile from the
house. Cassett was boiling a pot OF
squirrels for breakfast. None
them resisted except Pearsy New
| man.
After the six men had been plac
ed under arrest they were left with
Paul Rogers and Charley Peele
while the others went in search of
the still. After the still was found
Mr.. Peele was called away to send
for help to get 1t out, leaving only
Policeman Rogers in charge of the
! men. Cassett then asked to be al
| lowed TO get some water at tn
pump, and after he got water, n
darted around the house and escaped
into the swamp. Mr.. Rogers could
not leave the other five men to try
to catch him. He is from Greens
boro and a warrant has been issued
for him.
The house where the arrests were
made has been occupied by r. T..
Lowry for several years. He and
his brother, NJ. L. Lowry. are old
men. They told Magistrate Gibson
that they are second cousins of Hen
ry Berry Lowry. Pearsy Newman !,
a young man. The Others are mid
die aged.
Near the camp there were two
automobiles, a Ford claimed by II
l.. Rail and a Buick claimed b,
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