Wilmington — Mysterious circumstances are connected with the death of little Austin WILLIAMS, whose body was found in the Cape Fear river.  He disappeared and for three days frantic parents searched the banks of the river.  From the first it was feared that the boy had fallen in because he was very adventurous.  A seaman on the steamer Lake Cathoon, lying at the Broadfoot Iron Works, saw the body floating down the tide, and secured it.

Source: Pender Chronicle (Burgaw, NC); 13 May 1920.