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Hertford County Herald HERTFORD COUNTY'S ONLY NEWSPAPER A PAPER WORTH WHILE BEST ADVERTISING MEDIU M IN EAST CAROLINA >. , , ? ?R??? l ?? Volume Xll. Eight Pages Ahoskie, North Carolina, Friday, December 16, 1921 One Section No. 33 JURY IN ROBERTSON ASSAULT CASE FAIL TO ARRIVE AT VER DICT AND A MISTRIAL RESULTS i i a. i_: ix i i After deliberating from 7 ; o'clock Thursday evening until 9 Friday morning, the jury, in the case of State n. Robertson in which- the de fendant was charged with an assault upon a female, repor- j feed that they had failed to reach a verdict as to the in nocene or guilt of the defen dant, and that there was no prospect of a verdict. There upon Judge J. Lloyd Norton , discharged the jury, and or dered a mistrial. The vote of the twelve jurymen stood 5 to 7, with no definite infor mation as to which side had thp seven. The case was tried in Gates County Superior , Court and every session was attended by large* crowds. Thus ended a two-day-&nd-a half trial which has shaken the very moral foundation of a large part of the town of Ahos kie since last August 10th., on which day J. H. Robertson is al leged to have committed an as sault upon Mrs, L. K. Walker. This one thing has given Ahos kie more publicity than any oth er Occurrence ever happening here; and it has been the most sordid, degrading, fiendish and disreputable affair ever aired in the courts, coming out of the town. The plaintiff upon the wit ness stand swore that Robert son, a man who had never be fore entered her home, came to her front door on the afternoon of August 10th, and, against her will and by force, gained admittance into her, hall way, after she had answered a rap at the door. She was dressed in her kimona, when she heard the knock at her door. She went to the door and, seeing Robertson through the glass panel, un locked the door, cracking it open slightly to tell him that her husband, a local physician, was down town and that he co uld see him there, thinking that he had come to the house for medical aid. He then forced his way into the hall, while she re treated to her bedroom and clos ed Jhe door behind her, and ordered him to leave her home. Cracking her bedroom door slightly to see if he had left, she saw him standing there, with the front door closed, and his hand on the door knob. She or dered him out again; but he only smiled at her suggestively and said "come on out; you| I loog good enough. SJ?e once ag ain ordered himto leave but he only repeated to her that she looked good enough and not to be afraid. Then he asked if the two young children were asleep j and if she was sure there was no other person in the house. She said 'no, you get oat of this house." He reminded her then thpt the neighbors might see him leaving; aqd, upon being ordered way the next time, he told her that some one was pass ing in front of the house. She told him that she did not care who was passing and who mig ht see him, for him to leave and leave at once. She testified that while he was there in her hall, she ordered him to leave as ma ny as eight or ten times. She testified that Robertson advanced a step or two towards her as she stood in the bedroom and while standing there, he asked her something about a setting of eggs that she had promised his wife. Notwithstanding her repeated commands to Leave the house, Robertson again smiled sugges tively, turning his face first to wards her and then out of the front door as if to see that no one was around and appearing nervous, and then recited some things that he alleged took pla ce between "some man" and herself. Robertson, she testified told her that he had seen these things happen. She replied "No you haven't, Mr. Robertson, for ? ' - iW * - ?" I not even urvu nimaeii nas ever seen any such things.*1 Again, in her desperation, shp ordered' him to leave, threatening to go out the back door and make an alarm to the neighbors. He left. Excited, nervous and grief ?tricken at the attack made up on her, but with forethought about the trouble it would cau se her husband who she feared might blow out the brains # of her assailant, she waited until Friday morning to tell her hus band. On Friday morning, how ever, after constant thinking, brooding, crying and praying over it, she phoned to her hus band's office and had' him come to the house, where and when she told of the insult and assault made upon her. When she had related what occurred, Dr. Wal ker came back down town, and onhis way, stopped and confid ed what he had just been told to his friend, Mr. Roberts Jerni gan. When the former said that he was going to get a gun and kill the "scoundrel" Mr. Jerni gan advised him against the act contemplated and sugested that he adopt a saner mothod. Dr. Walker waited, then, un til Robertson left his work at the depot, accosted him near t?e postoffice and, exchanging words, he hit Robertson a blow upon the head, after the latter had placed a knife, which he held in his hand, into his pock et, as commanded by Dr. Wal ker. Others wpre near, and they rushed up. Robertson, seeing the danger that lay before him suggested that they retreat in to the store of J. N. Vann and Bro. and let him explain. He fttempted an explanation by saying that he would have to implicate another man, that be ing W. W. Lawrence The latter was immediately sent for, con fronted his accuser who repeat ed the things which he had told Mrs. Walker on Wednesday, and accused Lawrence of hav ing tpld him that he, Lawrence, was the man who was involved and that Lawrence had told to him upon several occasions the things which he had told two days before. Whereupon, Law rence called him a "liar" and at the same time pounced upon him, crushing him to the floor. He jumped upon him and clut ched Robertson's throat and was choking him severely when Mr. Jernigan pulled him off, and along with him came both the shirt and the collar of Ro bertson . ? a. mm m a a w-k ? f ollowing this episode, kod ertson left town and for a few days remained out of sight of Ahoskie people. Mrs. Robertson according to the testimony of Dr. Walker, came to him in dis tress on the day her husband was beaten up, and told him that Mr. Robertson would leave Ahoskie for good,-if he w*>uld not prosecute him. Dr. Walker says, in a hope to cause the least embarrassment to his wife and to protect the good name of the town, he would consent not to urge any prosecution if he were to leave town and stay away. Mrs. Robertson denied making the proposal about lea ving the town. The other inci dents, including service of pa pers upon Robertson when he returned to Ahoskie, the Mason ic trial And his expulsion from the local lodge, and his dismis sal from the service of the At lantic Coast Line railroad, are already known to the readers of the IJERALD. Following her cross exami nation, conducted by lawyer Sumner Burgwyn, and during which she remained unshaken in the testimony given on direct examination, Robertson took the stand, and denied forcing his way into the home, denied saying he had seen anything between the plaintiff and anoth er man, and denied being on dered out of the house, altho ha did admit upon cross exam ivOnUInutHl vn page ClgTlv f ? ?? "* .<>' "* h"'; '"-?.'".v.' ' , r TOBACCO ASSOCIA TION WILL MAKE A STRENUOUS DRIVE DR. J. Y. JOYNER ISSUES APPEAL TO FARMERS Organization Committee of The Tobacco Growers Assoc ia Calls Upon the Farmers and Business Men to Come Across and Help To Put North Car olina Over-The Top Raleigh, Dec. 9.?Calling for 10,000 volunteers to help North Carolina beat Kentucky is the sigh up for cooperative market ing of tobacco, Dr. J. Y. Joyner, has issued the following state ment of behalf of the state or ganization committee. "Kentucky has signed up 86 per cent and is well on the way to- 90 per cent pf her to'bacco -oo for cooperative marketing under five year contracts like ours, lias incorporated under the North Carolina Co-opera-> tive Marketing Act, and the as sociation will pool and sell this year's crop of burley tobacco. Virginia has already signed up between 60*and 75 per cent of her crops and hopes to beat Kentucky before the first of the month of January. News from South Carolina indicates that her growers are signing a million pounds a day and that she will have her min imum sign-up by January 1st. or before. North Carolina, the biggest grower of flue-cured tobacco in the United States, must not. lag behind?must beat Virgin ia and Kentucky before the 1st of Janugry. The bigger the si-J gn up the more assured the suc cess of the association, the less the overhead expenses of the marketing, and the bigger the profits for the grower member. "The Organization Commit tee has set the goal and inau gurated an intensive campaign for not less than 75 per cent on or before the first of this January. This means that about 50 million more pounds of the tobacco must be signed up dur-; ing the next three weeks. The time is short. The task is great. It can be?it must be done, but it. will require hard work, ac tive cooperation, and some sac rifice of time from all that in terested in this great move ment. "The members of the Organ zation Committee for twelve months have given freely of the ir time, thought and labor for the successful organization of the Tobacco Growers Cooper ative Association, without any compensation, without reward or the hope of reward, except to' help tobacco growers to se cure a more business-like, intel ligent, profitable system of the marketing of their tobacco ahd to promote the general prosper ity of the state by increasing the profitableness of one of its chief industries and the pros perity of one of its largest class es of citizens. "The-movement is receiving the endorsement and the active support of the many leading bankers, merchants, and other business men, even those of the leading tobacco warehouses of the state. - "The responsibility for the success or failure of this final 3 weok campaign for enough new signers to secure, the biggest of the signups for the cooperative marketing of-tobacco in the na tion, rests now upon the thou sands of signers of the contract and upon every other progres sive, patriotic citizen interest ' ed in the general prosperity and ' progress of North Carolina. ' "On behalf of the Commit tee, I earnestly appeal to every it yne of these?Farmers, bank ers and business and profession 1 afmen?to volunteer for active t service in securing signers. Get i in touch with your county lead ? ers, who will tell you how well i you can help. Let every signer and every other volunteer sign up at least one unsigned neigh REASONS FOR DAIRY COW ON EVERY SIN GLE FARM OFSOUTH ; ? ' ?? :. i. I jt STATE DEPARTMENT MAN GIVES REASONS FOR COW The First of A Series of Espe cially Prepared Articles For theHerald, written by Expert in State Department of Agri culture, Giving the Value of the Dairy Cow on The South ern Farms (By A. C. KIMREY) Wherever people are to be fed, soil fertility to be maintain ed, and boll weevils to be com batted, the dairy cow has a place. Her place on the average. Southern farm is not only to help feed people on the farm, but. also to aid the farmer in his efforts to make money to buy those things which%he must ha ve that.he cannot produce. The dairy cow consumes the i grain and the roughages which any farm can produce, and she readily converts these things in to milk, a most palatable and es sential food product, which can well be' relied upon to fur nish at least forty per cent of the food necessary to maintain ; the bodies and health of those who cultivate the fields and al so who keep the farm homes. The dairy cow is by her na l ture and ability, the foundation I animal of the well balanced | farm. It is a well known fact ; that the most successful gricul ! tural states and communties are i those in which the dairy cow is 1 th foundation stone on' which their farming system is built. The agricultural thrift of Den mark and Holland are the mo dels for the world, and it is built | around the dairy cow. On the | other hand the agricultural sys tems of Russia and Spain stand 1 out as beacon lights of failure, I and neither of these recognize I the dairy cow as haying a vital j part in their system of farming. I It Is generally conceded that [the greatest problems of agri I culture is the maintaining of j soil fertility. It is doubtful whet I her soil fertility can or will be ! conserved on farms where the i main crops are grain and cot ton, and where these are sold from the farm. Whether or not it is possible to conserve the soil fertility under such conditicftis, it is certain that it is seldom. Selling crops directly from the soil is nothing more or less than drawing o.ut and putting on the market the fertility of the soil thit past ages Have stored in our fields, and thereby leaving the land poor and unprofitable. On the other hand, there are numbers of farms in every cou nty where, by means of a sys tem of live stock farming, the soil fertility has not only been conserved, but very remarkatv ly increased. It is noticeable , that this takes place more rap idly on those farms where the dairy cow holds sway. When grain and hay crops are fed to dairy cows and the dairy products are marketed, a very small part of the soil fer : tility of x these crops actually leaves the farm. For example when two thousand pounds of butter is sold from the farm, les than seventy five cents worth of fertilizing material goes with it. When two thousand pounds of milk is sold, less tham $3.00 worth of soil fertility is sold with it. In the case of selling butter at the present market prices one-tenth of one per cent of the money received for it will buy back all the fertilizing ma terial sold therewith. This, it will be readily seen, is practi cally negilible from a soil de pleting standpoint. In addition to producing the best food a family can have, and at the same time guaran bor and have a part in the big gest movement ever started foi making our state more prosepr ous and powerful by making its chief industry?agriculture more profitable." i ' "is T ' - ? V r - i -i nT m i iJln. i !. tmmm#* STATE NEWS IN DIGEST COM PLIED FOR READERS OF THE HERTFORD COUNTY HERALD ?R. A. Kohless, Federal Pro hibition officer for North Caro lina, states that whiskey is more plentiful in the eastern part of the state than in the western sections, and that the manufac ture of corn whiskey and "mon key rum" in Eastern North Caro lina is more extensive and har der to stamp out than in any western counties of the state. ?J. T. Flythe, for thirty years clerk of the Superior Court of Northampton County, died in a Norfolk hospital Friday. His death followed an operation for appendicitis. Mr. Flythe was widely known throughout Eas tern North Carolina. ?The Teacher's Association of the town of Greensboro have decided that high school girls attending their schools must set up a rigid standard of morals, cut but all movies, dancing, and abstain from appearing in pub lic without a chaperone, and otherwise Conduct themselvves in a "modest and unassuming manner." It is thought that the girls will make strong opposi tion to this decree. ?Fayetteville High School now holds the state championship for football, having acquired it in their victory over Winston Salem Staurday, in a hard-fou ght game at. Chapel Hill. ?The tobacco market of Dur ham will close for the hoidayB on Friday, December 16th, po reopen on January 3rd. ?The tobacco growers of Wa ke County are in the lead in signing up for Co-operative To bacco Marketing, having ex ceeded all other counties of the state in the number of signers. ?The Prohibition officer and local citizens of Dunn have ap plied to the District Attorney at Raleigh to decide the question as to "who owns the liquor wh en captured by the officers?" 48 quarts of "bottled-in-bond" were captured near there last week, and the proper disposal of the precious fluid seems to be worrying the aforesaid parties, none being willing to see it dum ped in the sewer. ?Robeson County has elected a woman, Miss Elizabeth Frye, for county welfare officer. ?A cousin of the famous Jesse James was captured in Concord Tuesday, on several charges of robbery and swindling. This man, Fred James, has almost equalled his brother in deeds of robbery and trickery, having been involved in countless jew el swindles and robberies. ?TJfe girls of Durham High School have placed the ban on lip-stick, rouge, powder, and even chewing gum and rolled stockings. They have adopted as a motto: "Back to the ways of grandmothers days", and ha ve announced their intention of living up to it. ?B. O. Townsend, a prominent farmer of Dunn, has successful ly proven that sea island, or long staple cotton can be grown on the soil of that county, and also in the surrounding sections as well. This will mean an in teeing to keep up the soil fer tility, the dairy cow produces a product that can be marketed in one form or the other every day in the year, and thus guar antees a constant cash income, : which is a thing badly needed ' on every Southern farm, and es ' pecially on the cotton farms. Still one more place the dai ! 'ry cow can fill on the farm is > to furnish profitable employ ' ment for the farmer and his ' help during those months of ? the year, when he' otherwise r would have no such employ - ment, and thus enable him to i increase his income, without ve - ry materially increasing his capital. dustry of no little importance to the farmers of-that county, if the project ia successful. ?Sales of tobacco on the Rocky Mount market have been very heavy for the past week, total ling 1,033,?66 pounds. ' which sold tor $?(>2,923.32, or an aver age of 25c per pound for all sold. ?The session of Superior Court ] in Wake County this week has : a larger criminal docket than j in many years, there being a total of 110 cases, two for mur der. ?A large boiler at the works 1 of the Empire Manufacturing | Company at Goldsboro explod ed Monday, .killing a mechanic, injuring several, .and partly wrecking the plant. ?A gathering of the railway masons of the Southern Rail way met in Charlotte Monday, j Many prominent officials from j all over the south were present. ?The town of Wake Forest is raising money for the erection pf a-new high school building, ! larger and more modern in de sign than the present building. i ?Two automobiles were stolen I in the town of Fayetteville Sat urday night, both of which are recovered by the police, and ! the miscreants also, who are now safely in jail. ?An Orange County man, Q. L. Sykes, escaped from the Sta te Insane Hospital last week, and killed his brother, also com mitting other depredations be fore the police wei;e successful in capturing him and returning him to the hospital. ?The city of Kinston has been on a boom since November 1st, according to the reports of loc al merchants, who assert that the holiday trade has been hea vier than in many years. Other lines of business have also taken on a stimulus, partly due to the good prices which have preva iled on the Kinston tobacco mar ket throut the entire season. ?Hazing at Wake Forest Col lege has been on the icrease this 55 season, as is evidencedv by the students who are to appear in Wake County court this week to answer charges of excessive violence and disorderly con duct, both as pupils and as "hazers". ?Stephen Douglas, a young man of Hillsboro, commited sui cide Monday, as a result of de ranged condition of-mind, bro ught on by the fact that his ! still had been destroyed a few days previous by prohibition officers, and he himself being sought for by the sheriff. His. attempts to evade capture brought on the mental derange ment, it is believed. ?The city of Fayetteville is to have a trolley system installed in a few weeks. The project is backed by Raleigh and^ay etteville capitalists. jf ?The traffic officers of Hender son have become so rigid in the enforcement of the local traffic laws, that the farmers of the I vicinity hesitate to coipe to I town on their cars, for fear of ! being "pinched." | ? ? Entertainment at Oak Grave There will be an entertain ment at Brantleys Grove School Friday night, December 28, be ginning at seven o'clock. Come and hear the little six year old alto singer, and bring the chil dren to see Santa Claus. After the entertainment there will be a box party and refreshments j served for the benefit of the school. I ?Advertisement. - * ,| 0 When In need of JebMnfr ; ing?think of the Herald at AhosUe.
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