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n1JJ(M4 VOLUME XXI NUMBER 42 LAURINBURG, N, C THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1913. $1.50 PER YEAR, IN ADVANCE NEGRO KILLED--TWO OF FICERS SHOT IN STREET DUEL COLUMN OF STATE HEWS Mr. D. N. Poindexter Seriously Wounded and Officer D. B. Brown Shot Twice by Desperate Negro Tuesday Morning Shoot ing Occurred On Main Street Officers Were After Negro Who Did the Shooting Negro Killed. About 9:30 o'clock Tuesday morning a street duel was fought between two officers of the law, Mr. D. N. Poindexter, a Seaboard Air Line Railway officer, whose home is at Hamlet, Mr. D. B. Brown, of the Laurinburg police force, and John Williams, a des perate negro. When the smoke of battle cleared away the negro lay dead on the pavement in front of W. C. Williams' store. fficer Brown suffered two wounds, one in the fleshy part of his left arm and one finger on his left hand shattered, and officer Poindexter shot through the right side, the bullet piercing his liver, splitting it for several inches and severing the large intestine. Mr. Poindexter and Mr. Brown were both rushed to the hospital, when they were given medical attention. The bullet that struck down Mr. Poindexter was a steel jacket 32-calibre and was found lodged in the muscles of his back. An operation was per formed on him by Drs. James and Prince, and the liver and intestine sewed up. He had bled profusely internally, and while his wounds are exceedingly dan gerous, at this writing the phy sicians are hopeful of his recoV' ery. Mr. Poindexter attempted to arrest the negro at Hamlet Sun day morning for stealing a ride on a Seaboard train. The negro, being armed, got the drop on the officer, taking his pistol away from him and demanding his money. Mr. Poindexter came to Laurinburg in search of him Tuesday morning, and on his way down recognized the negro on the train. Coming on here, he secured the assistonce of Offi cer Brown and soon spotted his man, who was standing in front ofW. C. Williams' store. The officers approached him and the three went into the alley between Monroe's and Williams' stores. About the time the three got into the alley the negro backed out, and jumping to the pavement, snatched his Savage automatic pistol and began firing at Officer Brown, who was struck in the left arm by the first shot. Offi cer Brown drew his gun and opened fire. Officer Poindexter grappled with the negro, and while tussling with him received the bullet in his side. The negro continued to fight and shoot. Offi cer Brown by this time had step ped off the pavement and shot only when he felt it was safe, his brother officer being mixed up with the negro. Mr. Brown fired five shots and his brother officer four. The last shot fired came from Mr. Poindexter's pistol, ac cording to Mr. Brown's state ment, and after the negro had so seriously wounded him. The of ficer, who was crouched about the negro's waist, raised up, and placing his gun close to the ne gro's throat, fired. With this shot he sank to the pavement, dead. This was the fifth bullet to piece him, three others went into his chest and one into his arm. It was believed that the negro was cocaine-crazed. He fought like a demon and only gave up after five bullets either of three of them being enough to produce death had been fired into him. The negro's body was carried to the McDougald undertaking es tablishment, where the coroner's jury viewed the body before it was prepared for burial. Noth ing was found on his body to in dicate that he gave the officer his correct name. His coat bore the name of Hattie Williams, and a receipt was found containing the name Williams, but was not John Williams, as he stated to the offi cers, and is a stranger here. Du ring his fight with the officers he held a part of a sandwich m his hand that he was eating when the officers found him, and when he fell it dropped to the pave ment beside him. During the battle a bullet Short Items of North Carolina News General Interest To Scotland County In Condensed Form For Exchange Headers Oathered from Contemporaries. of crashed a show case in W. C. Williams' store. The shooting created the most intense excitement and soon hun dreds of people were on the scene. The coroner's jury, composed of H. 0. Covington, S. W. Cov ington, A. P. McLean, N. Ham mond, R. G. Stone and Mac Cam eron, after hearing the evidence, rendered the following verdict : "That John Williams came to his death by gunshot wounds inflict ed by D. B. Brown and D. N. Poindexter in the performance of their duties as officers of the law and in preservation of their lives, and the said D. B. Brown and D. N. Poindexter are hereby exhon orated by this jury of all blame in the affair." The evidence produced before the coroner's jury was as fol lows : R. E. Lee being duly sworn, said : I was sitting in an automo bile in front of J. F. McNair's store. I heard one shot, and two others in quick succession. I did not pay any attention. In turn ing around I saw two men clinch ed, a white man and negro, the white man being Mr. Poindex ter, the detective. They seemed to be struggling with each other and the shooting continuing. Mr. Brown, being a few steps away, was also shootinsr at intervals. The negro seemed to be sinking ! Thursday. The State gets a $70,000 reve nue out of its tax on automobiles. The State Fair will be in ope ration from October 20th. to 25th. Dr. McKanna will soon open a liquor-cure hospital in Fayette ville. While attending the circus at Greenville, a farmer was parted with four hundred plunks of his hard-earned. H. E. Bond, of Cabarraus county, offers a record of cotton picking, having gathered 402 lbs. between sunrise and sunset. The Thornton Lead and Steel corporation of Hickory has been chartered. The authorized capi tal is $00,000 with $124,000 paid in. During the month of Septem ber, the Greenville tobacco mar ket sold 5,978,767 pounds of to- bacco, averaging nearly 300,000 per day. While visiting in Burlington and attending the Fair, Benton Andrews, a young white man, was shot and perhaps fatally wounded by an unknow negro. A near-riot at Moss Neck The trouble was be- to the sidewalk,- holding to the tween Indians and negroes and white man. The last shot fired occurred at a pond where a large shooting waffn SSw.'aLf?.'' them hafld ated to Williams' store, on the east side j fish- Liquor was flowing freely of Main street. I was on the and the two races clashed. Dep west side in front of McNair's uty Sheriff Lowerv. an Indian. w 1 store. D. B. Brown being sworn, said: 1 am an officer of the town of Laurinburg. Mr. D. N. Poin dexter, an officer for the Sea board Air Line Co., came down on the train from Hamlet this morning. Mr. Poindexter recog nized the negro as the man he at tempted to arrest bunday morn- At that time the was shot and seriously wounded. President Fred N. Tate, of the Just Freight Rate Association, in his review of the freight rate , fight, says the measures adopted by the General Assembly will bring great relief, but that the contest must go on till there is obtained justice for the whole ing at Hamlet. negro took Mr. Poindexter's gun j statp away from him. Mr. Poindexter ! . , . andIweretogetherandhepoint- Suit for false arrest is being ed the negro out to . me, and I . threatened against Cumberland said : let's go and question him. county by Joseph Smith, who We went across the street and was jailed because of the sudden found him in front of W. C. Wil- UfV. . ... .. , . , hams' store. Mr. Poindexter,? ?ihZ ' !t ..bein a1" touched him on the shoulder and Ie&ed she died from poison. The spoke to him. I was a few j body of Mrs. Smith was exhumed steps away and did not hear and an autopsy performed. The what was said. Mr. romaexter, stomach being examined, showed me negro anu x waineu iulu lug alley between Monroe's and Wil liams' stores. I asked the negro his name and, as I remember, he said it was John Williams. I then asked him where he worked, and he replied that he worked at the guano factory. I then asked him when he had been to Ham let and he replied that he had never been to Hamlet. Then Mr. Poindexter said to him, "You got on the train at Hamlet this morn ing and you were in Hamlet Sat urday night." When he said that the negro jumped back, run his hand into his breast coat pocket, jumped back on the side walk, drew a pistol and the hnng began. I don't know who did the first snooting. The first shot I heard hit me in the arm. I drew my gun and shot five times. I was hit twice and two other balls went through my coat. Mr. Poin dexter was hit one time. I only saw the negro with one pislol ; he was firing the one I saw and was shooting at me. I don't know how many times Mr. Poin dexter shot. He fired the last shot and shot the negro in the neck. The negro pulled his gun first and threw it on me. I shot as quickly as I could and shot to keep the negro from killing me. His gun had seven loaded balls in it; the gun shoots eleven times and was a Savage automatic, 32 calibre. H, L. Blue being sworn, said : I was going from Blue's drug store to the post office and was in the middle of the street and heard the firing and looked around. I saw Mr. Brown and the other two, were tied upto- and Mr. no traces of poison, Smith was released. In a speech at Wilmington the past week Mr. J. Allen Taylor in making a roport of the work done at Raleigh by the Traffic Committee regarding freight rates, made a sarcastic arraign ment, of E. J. Justice because of Mr. Justice's attack on Wilming ton's position and declared that Justice was ignorant of the rate situation and was using the agi tation to advance himself to the United States Senate. Hope The Dogs Will Have a Good Time. Washington, Oct. 10.- Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Leiter, ' 'one of the happiest couples in society, "have chartered Howard Gould's yatcht "Niagra," to make a pleasure trip around the world. The Leiters ordered the yacht to make a special trip to Washing ton for the purpose of picking up the four pet fox terriers of their two boys. A special compartment has been fitted up for the dogs on board the "Niagra," and they are expected to enjoy the trip as well as the other members of the party. ' . N Secluded. By now the rural mail carrier has probaly reached Greenville, S. C, with news of the openihg gether. I made a high dive and i game of the world series. Wilm Continued on page 4. jington Dispatch COIWEHSED NEWS L- FROM EVERYWHERE A Column of tha Week's Happenings i nrougnout the World Told In Brief Gathered From Our Contemporaries and Boiled Down For Our Read ers. The post office department is taking an inventory of its assets. For the third time this year, the Generally Assembly of Ten nesseejnet Monday. Matheson's Bank is a new in stitution in Bennettsville, S. C. It has a capital of $10,000. The price of radium has been advanced to $10,000 a gram. One pound is now worth $52,000,000. The House Saturday refused to pass a Senate provision appropri ating $7,000 for an automobile for Vice-President Marshall. It has been declared that the new tariff law may cause inter national complications because of the 5 per cent, reduction given American ships. A Pennsylvania poker player held five aces in a game of draw poker, and is in a hospital badly wounded. Some of the players objected to his method. Four defendants th ree of them white men who were charged with retailing at Gaff ney, S. C., were fined an aggre gate of $650 by the Recorder. Radcliff Morris, the 12-year-old of Mrs. Ella T. Morris, of Sumter, S. C., brooding over the loss of a clerkship in a store, shot and killed himself the past Week. Jesse Hayes, sentenced to the roads in Robeson CDunty, rather tbjnserve his sentence, drank oiJUatrated lye and died from its effects in the penitentiary Friday. For the nine months ending September 43Qh, business on the New York Stock Exchange show ed a marked falling off despite the general pries advances of the past few weeks. President Wilson asked the ed itor of the Washington Post to retract the statement that he said any Democrat who voted against him in the currency leg islation was a rebel. Forty-nine players who partic ipated in the world's series last week will divide $135,163.89 be tween them on the basis of 60 per cent, to the winners and 40 per cent, to the losers. After an absence of 25 years in the West, Walter Ludwig re turned to Bellville, 111., to find that, according to law. he had been dead for years, and that his inheritance had been divided for years. In his testimony before the im peachment court of Gov. Sulzer, Allan A. Ryan said that the gov ernor attempted to secure the in fluence of Murphy to stop the impeachment trial, saying he was . willing to do what was right in return." With the announcement of Re presentative Oscar W. Under wood, of Alabama, that he will, Quit the House and run for the Senate, comes the assurance that Claud Kitchin, of this State, will in all probability succeed him as chairman of the ways and means committee. The" automobile of - President Wilson, whiie the President was aboard, struck a messenger boy who was riding a bycicle in Wash ington the past week. The wheel was smashed but the boy only slightly hurt. The young fellow's greatest concern when disentan gled from the wreck was for his wheel. The President quickly assured the young fellow that an other wheel would be f orthcom ing at once. PRESIDENT PUSHES BUTTON BLOWING OPENXANAL President Touches Electric Button That Flashed Electric Current Four Thousand Miles and Ignited Immense Charge of Dy namite, Blowing Open Gamboa Dam, in Panama Canal Undertaking Successful. Washington, Oct. 10. Presi dent Wilson at exactly 2 o'clock, Eastern time, this afternoon pressed a button in the White House which sent an electric cur rent flashing more than 4,000 miles over land'and under seas to blow up the Gamboa dike in the Panama canal. Panama, Oct. 10. The Gam boa dike was exploded at 2:02 p. m. this afternoon. The electric spark that sent off the blast was sent forward by President Wilson from Washing ton. The accomplishment was in every way successful. Washington, Oct. 10. A little electric spark which originated, when President Wilson pressed the button in the White House was the silent agent which sped more than 4,000 miles overland and under water and ignited the immense charges of dynamite which practically removed the last obstruction in the Panama canal. Electrical experts calcu lated that within four seconds after President Wilson pressed the button in Washington, the current threw a small switch on an apparatus atthe Gamboa dike, which in turn set in motion other apparatus which furnished the current for exploding the charges. Elaborate tt preparations had beed made by the Western Union Telegraph Company and the Cen tral and South American Tele graph Company for the practi cally instantaneous transmission of the President's signal. From Washington to Galveston, Texas, 1,556 miles, a single wire carried the spark. There it was taken up instantaneously by sensitive repeating instruments and sped over the cable along the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico to Coatza coalcos, Mexico, 7933 miles fur ther. From that point4t sped over land across the Isthmus of Te huanatepec, over wires of the line of the Tehuanatepec National Railway, 188 miles more on its journey, to another cable station at Salina Cruz on the Pacific Ocean, where other sets of sensi tive telegraph instruments took it up and hurried it 766 miles over another cable along the bot tom of the Pacific Ocean, to San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua, a cable station, where other delicate ma chines transferred it to still an other cable and shot it along 718 miles more to Panama. There the spark emerged from its long sub-marine .journey to the over land telegraph wires of the Pan ama Railroad Company and com pleted its mission at the Gamboa dike. Hours before the time set, ex perts of the telegraph and cable companies were busjr perfecting their arrangements so the Presi dent's flash might have an un obstructed passage. The Atlantic and Pacific oceans 11 "I A J were not actually united toaay when the Gamboa dike was de stroyed and the waters of Gatun lake were allowed to flow into Culebra cut, as lake and cut are at the normal surface of the wa ter, 35 feet above the level of the sea. The destruction of the Gamboa dike, however, removes the last obstruction to the navigation of the greater part of the canal by light draft vessels and opens up direct connection with the great Gatun lake, which already is practically ready to discharge vessels into the Atlantic through Gatun locks and the Pacific di vision. The waters of the lake rushing through the broken dike at Gam boa sweep through Culebra cut until they reach the great locks at Pedro Miguel, which mark the beginning of the descent from the top level of the canal to the Pacific. Judge Parker Denounces Sulzer. . Never since the impeachment trial of Gov. Sulzer opened has he been subjected to such a se vere verbal flaying as Judge Al ton B. Parker delivered in his re marks for the board of managers today. The castigation came be fore the court had scarcely set tled down to work, the judge merely taking a few minutes of the morning session before giv ing way to Judge D. Cady Her rick, for the defense. "Before this bar the defendant stands guilty of these cffense3 charged by the impeachment and proved by uncontroverted evi dence," he said. "Before the bar of the court of pu bile opinion this defendant stands condemned by f uther damning testimony of his shifty defenses and his futile ef forts to dodge by technicalities the trial of the issues before this high court. "In these actions, public opin ion, with a freedom not permit ted to judicial opinion, finds di rect evidence of guilt. The same public opinion takes cognizance of the fact that the defendant is suffering from such a severe at tack of moral near-sightedness that even when directed by a myriad of scornful fingers he can not discern the criminal and dis honorable nature of the acts prov ed. "Even justic must see through its severe eye somethings of the pathetic in this defendant's fran tic efforts to cover the nakedness of his wrongdoing. Defiance, de fence, justification, prevarication, denunciation of his accusers; at tempts to suppress and falsify testimony, and efforts to cast the blame elsewhere each in turn has been stripped from his quaking flesh until he stands now naked before this court without a rag of his attempted vindica tion clinging to his deformed and mutilated manhood. ' 'No act of his shows more per fectly the complete baseness of his character unffitting him ut terly for any public or private trust, than does his efforts to coerce the members of this court through channels which his warp ed intellect mistakingly instruct ed him held the power of coercion. He Won'f Be There. I received a postal from Ben nettsville the other day with the picture of a crowd of little ne groes sitting on the fence waiting for the show to come, and the sender said to me on the card. I am waiting for you to come." Poor fellow he has a long and lonesome' wait ahead of him. It took about fifty years of regular attendance in the school of fool- ism to really decide that I was a fool, but after taking a post graduate course in shows espe cially, I decided that I was IT, spelled with a big I. The opera tion made me powerful sick, but I am still able to see that I was a very apt scholar. I think the card came from the court house, anyway. Jim McGilvray, in Pee Dee Advocate.
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